4063776293?profile=originalShould Gay Minister’s Marriage Be Allowed

                in Your Church?

There is something fundamentally wrong in American society when a minister can take the oath of office as a servant and shepherd of God and erect a wall hiding her hidden practices of deceit. This is exactly what Bishop Allyson D. Nelson Abrams, 43 of Detroit did, when she married a female bishop and hid her act from the church, according to the Detroit Free Press. Is this the type of church leadership you should expect from your minister of the flock?

Her church membership was rightly upset and shocked by their pastoral leader because she had attained a coveted leadership position at Zion Progress Baptist Church. Bishop Adams also held office as secretary to the nationally powerful Detroit-based Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity. This religious leadership organization of several hundred ministers has been host to political powerhouse mayoral and Michigan gubernatorial candidates, and even candidates for President of the United States.

The Detroit Free Press also indicated that Bishop Abrams was the co-editor of the Progressive National Baptist Convention’s magazine. So in effect, Bishop Nelson had the ability to neuter or even eliminate, over time the long held conservative beliefs of the black church that same-sex marriage is against the teaching of the Bible.

Yet, this minister who did not practice what her moral biblical teachings demanded attempted to find biblical cover for her marriage to Diana Williams, a retired bishop with the Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation, located in Washington D.C. Bishop Abrams incorrectly claims that it was the very word of God that gives her and others the right to secure same-sex marriage vows.

Bishop Abrams explained to the Michigan Chronicle that her romantic and eventual marriage to Diana Williams was protected, because, “The references in the Bible that discussed ‘homosexual acts’ referred to popular male prostitution during that time,” said Abrams. “The men would have sex with the male prostitutes, often. This is what was discouraged in Scriptures.”

She weakly cites, St. Luke 7:1-10, which she claims shows that a male servant and his master had love for each other. It appears that Bishop Nelson may have been playing theological hooky that day when her ministerial studies class covered that chapter in St. Luke. If Bishop Adams had even bothered to re-examine her own teachings before she became entangled in this biblically forbidden liaison she would have understood the true meaning of her own erroneously chosen biblical defense.

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