LGBT News Baptists Bail on Children Services Over Gay [Hiring] Fears

The Escapist · Mar 8, 2014

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Uncertainty over a short-lived proposal to open employment to gays at Kentucky's largest private child care agency prompted many of its supportive churches to withhold giving last year, causing a multi-million dollar shortfall.

Sunrise Children's Services depends on giving from Baptist congregations in Kentucky, along with government funding. But Kentucky Baptist Convention executive director Paul Chitwood said those offerings dried up last year because donors were concerned that the proposal to allow gay workers might succeed.

The Sunrise board ultimately rejected the proposal introduced by Bill Smithwick, then CEO of Sunrise. But the flap left the agency that cares daily for about 600 children with a funding shortfall of about $7.5 million.

"Most of our churches decided not to take the annual offering for Sunrise because they feared that Smithwick was going to lead Sunrise away from" the Kentucky Baptist Convention, Chitwood said. The state convention, which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and has about 2,400 member churches in Kentucky, is conservative on social issues and opposes gay marriage.
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From The Huffington Post. You can read more here.

You might throw up from this one, it's hard to read and believe it.
As someone of Kentucky, this is really bad to my ears. Forget all of the bakery stories, now these so-called Christians are willing to push children behind just so they don't have to hire workers who are gay.. which has nothing to do with their job.
I have hope Kentucky will open it's eyes one day, but we really need to speed that up. Less of the hate thy neighbor, and more of the everyday love you can also find amongst us. (*hug*)

Ettina · Mar 8, 2014

Maybe some pro-LGTB group should organize a fundraiser to help this organization out? Show them we don't think they should be punished for considering hiring gays?

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