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Published On: Fri, Jun 6th, 2014

Southern Baptists vote to keep gay supporting pastor, David Cortez, ‘Third Way’ church

A Southern Baptist church in California voted to keep Pastor Danny Cortez of New Heart Community Church despite his change in beliefs to support homosexuality after his son revealed he was gay.

Baptist Pastor Danny Cortez

Baptist Pastor Danny Cortez

The congregation decided that they would support Cortez and identify as a “Third Way” church reports Christian News.

Cortez surprised the New Heart Community Church congregation by announcing his pro-homosexual position. Cortez shared his personal belief that “the body of Christ is segregated every Sunday between gay affirming and non-gay affirming” Christians, and he exhorted Christians to embrace—not denounce—homosexual behavior.

Cortez wrote to Patheos that when his 15-year-old son confided that he was gay “my heart skipped a beat and I turned towards him and we gave one another the biggest and longest hug as we cried. And all I could tell him was that I loved him so much and that I accepted him just as he was.”

In a letter posted online Cortez wrote after the vote “This is a huge step for a Southern Baptist church!!” Cortez ecstatically wrote in his letter. “So now, we will accept the LGBT community even though they may be in a relationship. We will choose to remain the body of Christ and not cast judgment.”

Dr. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, warned in a Monday blog post that New Heart Community Church has dangerously abandoned the Biblical stance on homosexuality.

“There is nothing but heartbreak in this situation,” Mohler wrote. “Here we face a church that has rejected the clear teachings of Scripture, the affirmations of its confession of faith, and two millennia of Christian moral wisdom and teaching.”

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