Rift Over Gay Unions Reflects Battle New to Black Churches

Never in a "million years" did Robert Renix think he would find a Baptist church that would accept someone like him: a black Baptist gay man. Never mind one that would allow what happened one Saturday last month, when a tuxedo-clad Renix stood in front of the pulpit at Covenant Baptist Church in ...
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Jacqueline L. Salmon

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