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Diverse Faith Leaders and Clergy Stand Together in Support of Marriage and the Minnesota Marriage Protection Amendment

 

A press release from Minnesota for Marriage:

Today, an ecumenical fellowship gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol to demonstrate their unity in support of the institution of Marriage as God designed it to be—between one man and one woman—and in support of the Minnesota Marriage Protection Amendment.

Pastor Sergio Amezcua said, “This is not a political case for us; it is moral. We have a duty to protect the institutions that God put on the earth since the beginning of Creation.” Though these pastors and faith leaders come from diverse Christian communities, they are united in their commitment to minister to all people as children of God made in His image and in their belief that God designed marriage between one man and one woman as a gift to society to bond mothers with fathers and parents with children.

The group of diverse faith leaders and clergy from across the state who have come together to defend the truth of marriage as God created it to be includes:  Rev. Jerry McAfee, President of the Minnesota Baptist Convention; Bishop Richard Howell of Shiloh Temple; Mr. Carl Nelson, President of Transform Minnesota – The Evangelical Network; the Most Rev. John C. Nienstedt, Archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis; Rev. Troy Dobbs of Grace Church, Eden Prairie; Rev. Sergio Amezucua of Brooklyn Park Evangelical Free Church; various statements from Church of God In Christ, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and more.

Minnesota for Marriage has more photos of the event.

5 Comments

  1. Barb Chamberlan
    Posted September 19, 2012 at 7:30 pm | Permalink

    Carl Nelson, President of Transform Minnesota, said: "I will vote YES for the Minnesota Marriage Amendment and for the wellbeing of children.”

    Excellent. Children do best when raised by their married mother and father.

  2. John Noe
    Posted September 19, 2012 at 8:45 pm | Permalink

    Supporting NOM and the MMA also shows our love for God and our gratitude for the loving arrangement he made for us.
    When you embrace same sex unions you are rejecting the way God made it. He made us male and female and he gave each sex its own unique reproductive body part.

    Simple biology should tell you what is right and what is wrong.

  3. Roger Hall
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 12:47 am | Permalink

    Many agnostics and atheists who have children and care about the future of Western civilization support the Ministers of Religion who are opposing the advance of perversion.

  4. Reuben
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 1:55 am | Permalink

    God bless these courageous and spirit-led leaders.

  5. Shane Mahaffy
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 11:01 am | Permalink

    God bless these brave Christians