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Berean Baptist Pastor’s Remarks Latest Flash Point in Heated Same-Sex Marriage Debate

posted on May 4, 2012

Gregory Phillips of the Fayatteville Observer reports that Brennen (North Carolina) Baptist Church’s Sean Harris recently gave a sermon in which the pastor called on parents to punish their sons who display “effeminate behavior,” even authorizing them “to punch boys with limp wrists.” According to Phillips, Harris’ remarks, for which he has since apologized, have sparked the latest controversy in the heated debate in North Carolina over whether to amend the state’s constitution to define heterosexual marriage “the only legally recognized domestic union in the state.”

Read at The Fayatteville Observer