SBC Pastor Joel Rainey Argues ‘Same-Sex Marriage’ Laws Should NOT be Overturned

Staff Writer

The Southern Baptist Convention continues on its path to downgrade at breakneck speed, with a recent post by Joel Rainey of Covenant Church in Shepherdstown, WV, demonstrating what it looks like when company men commit themselves to cutting the brakes.

Responding to a post from William Wolfe listing some things that should be done to restore the American family- ending no-fault divorce, ending abortion, reducing access to contraceptives, requiring men to provide for their children, ending “sex education” in public schools, ending surrogacy and overturning Obergerfel, the 2015 case that said same-sex marriage was a constitutional right- pastor Rainey pushed back on the latter point, saying that he does NOT believe Obergerfel should be overturned

.Rainey believes doing so would “invalidate” all the “economic supports” built into so-called “same-sex marriage” and would “bring harm to already established unions” that the courts have already “legitimized.”

He does not see legitimizing “same-sex marriage” as a catalyst that lubed up the slipperiest slope of all but rather an unfortunate court decision that, nevertheless, should be supported and upheld.

Thankfully, this garnered Rainery nearly universal condemnation, including analogies to slavery and asking how his logic would apply if the government legalized marriage between an adult and a nine-year-old.

Rainey doubled down, however, hell-bent on taking the SBC towards a dark path with even darker logic.

Rather than taking the view that Obergerfell is unconstitutional and will go down in history as the ‘Dred Scott’ of its era, Rainey wants “same-sex marriages” to be legally entrenched in our society, with all the harm that has done and will continue to do. This is an SBC pastor we’re talking about.

Onward we speed.