Baptist minister explains why ... performing the first same-sex marriage ceremony in Huntsville

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By Leada Gore | [e-mail]

Ellin Jimmerson is the Minister to the Community at Huntsville's Weatherly Heights Baptist Church. On Monday, however, she will take on a historic role as the officiant of the first same-sex marriage ceremony in Huntsville.

Rev. Jimmerson will be speaking and officiating at Huntsville's Wedding Week on Monday, the first day same-sex couples around the state will be allowed to obtain marriage licenses. She's excited about the opportunity and chance to spread her message of love.

That's the message that caught my eye recently. Jimmerson shared her thoughts about Wedding Week on Facebook and I wanted to share them here. She said the message is intended for other Christian ministers and Christians.

Here is Jimmerson's message:

"One of the issues for many is whether same sex marriages comport with biblical ideas of marriages. The truth is that people in the 21st century would not be comfortable with the kinds of marriages which are represented in the Bible. For example, we would not be comfortable with the biblical model that is one man, one woman, one concubine. Nor would we be comfortable with the idea of a widow being compelled to marry her brother-in-law. There is very little in the Bible which reflects the modern idea of one man & one woman united by love. That is where we have been comfortable for a long time now.

Today, we are being asked to move even further down the road of marriages being based on love. We are being asked to expand our ideas to include one man and another man united in marriage by love. Of one woman and another woman united by love.
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Years ago, my family actually attended Weatherly Heights. We moved out of town, and I moved out of the Baptist Church (well, any church, really). Forty years ago, who'da thunk it ?

[Bluenorthwest]

1. She's refreshingly honest and direct about what 'Biblical marriage' actually means, in reality the

Biblical concepts of marriage and of women's role in society is not acceptable to many modern people. This is why so few are honest about those Biblical concepts.

[niyad]

2. betty bowers explains traditional (bible-based) marriage to everyone else

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3. Retribution was swift. Weatherly Heights has been voted out of the Southern Baptist Convention.

http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2015/03/madison_baptist_vote.html