Tennessee church bans family for supporting Lesbian daughter's fight for same sex benefits

[stevenleser]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/21/tennessee-church-bans-family-after-daughter-wins-same-sex-benefits-from-town/

After 60 years of attending a Tennessee church, a family in Collegedale has been exiled because they supported their daughter while she fought for same sex benefits from the town where she worked as a police detective.

Earlier this month, Collegedale became the first city in Tennessee to offer same sex benefits after Detective Kat Cooper was initially denied health benefits for her wife, Krista. The couple was married in Maryland earlier this year.

But that victory turned out to be bittersweet because leaders at Ridgedale Church of Christ gave Kat Cooper’s mother, aunt and uncle an ultimatum during a private meeting after worship services on Sunday.

“They could repent for their sins and ask forgiveness in front of the congregation. Or leave the church,” The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported on Wednesday.

[Botany]

1. How very Christian of them

“They could repent for their sins and ask forgiveness in front of the congregation. Or leave the church.”



BTW if God is so anti Gay and all powerful how come GLBT kids keep getting born?

[roody]

2. "Leave the church"

That was the most empowering thing I ever did. Well one of them.

[William769]

3. Or they could find a church thats not bigoted. nt