In addition to Wright, MBA pastors meeting with Stimpson were MBA Moderator Scott Griffith, pastor of Cypress Shores Baptist Church; MBA Second Vice Moderator Kevin Cobb, pastor of West Mobile Baptist Church; former MBA moderator Charlie York, pastor of Highpoint Baptist Church in Eight Mile, and David Roach, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Saraland.
“We assured (Stimpson) of our support for any efforts to protect Mobile residents’ liberty to hold and live out biblical convictions regarding human sexuality,” Griffith said in an MBA press release.
MBA shared with Stimpson an MBA resolution on the “LGBTQ+ Agenda and Religious Liberty,” imploring the city, county and state “to protect religious liberty by rejecting any attempts to compromise the longstanding Judeo-Christian and biblical convictions of the majority of our citizens,” urging elected officials “to preemptively pass a religious liberty ordinance that will affirm and protect religious liberty to hold and live out biblical convictions regarding marriage and the family;” and pledging “active support, encouragement, prayers, and good will as our elected officials seek to make this city, county, and state a better place to raise our children.”
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Wright described the resolution as an affirmation of the need to uphold First Amendment religious liberty protections.
“It encourages municipal authorities and business leaders that a significant portion of the population will never celebrate as normal any lifestyles that are contrary to biblical truth,” Wright said. “We offer hope to sinners trapped in behaviors and activities biblical truth warns is not normal. … Jesus offers forgiveness for sin and will replace the fruit of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit as described in Galatians 5:19-23.”
Stimpson’s office did not respond to Baptist Press’ request for comment.
This article originally appeared at Baptist Press.
