WASHINGTON (MCT) — They love President Barack Obama. But when it comes to his support for same-sex marriage, some of the nation's leading African-American clergy are divided, sometimes passionately.
Meeting in Washington on Thursday, the Conference of National Black Churches couldn't reach agreement.
As a group, the only thing they found conclusive was that the Bible — Old and New Testament — presents no consensus when it comes to homosexuality.
But most of the ministers, pastors and theological scholars expressed firm positions on marrying same-sex couples.
"I love all homosexual brothers and sisters, but my discipline says I can't marry them," said Bishop John Adams, an African Methodist Episcopal minister and former conference chairman. "Same-sex marriages are not being approved by the Christian community because it is a contradiction of creation. …The species continues by the procreation of male and female."