It was under the Church of England (even in the Colonies) that taxation for the clergy was a law when church and state were entangled and an ecclesiastical tyranny was imposed on Christians requiring them to support the corrupt State church. *All national and ceremonial laws* (like the tithe) for Israel are abolished since 70 A.D. when Jerusalem was destroyed along with its sacrifices and priesthood and Old Testament political system.

Neil wrote:
Abolitionist John Brown ... it is not well known that he & his father were hardcore Calvinists, very familiar with the works of Jonathan Edwards. Funny, that Brown & R.L. Dabney could hold to the same theology, yet reach opposite conclusions about social equality.

Brown committed blatant murder in his abolitionist fanaticism (see "What John Brown did in Kansas"). John Brown was involved in many murderers and cut off people's arms and hands who were slave owners! Brown led an Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, and was an advocate of Black Liberation Theology (which abolitionism feeds off of), and advocated insurrection, violence, murder--gross and criminal sins against individuals and States! John Brown was a madman and demonstrated the radical Liberation Theology of Abolitionism, similar to that which sparked the French Revolution. (Read about the Secret Six who sponsored John Brown).

Any "marriage" pretended that does not meet legal definition is null and void, and not recognized by law or jurisdiction. (E.g. Attempts to marry another in polygamy render the new marriage null and void, etc.)

Jozim wrote:
What difference does it make what colour of skin Fred Luter has? By saying he is the first black president of SBC the racial issues are kept alive. “But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, ... For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”” (1 Samuel 16:7, NKJV)

The New Southern Baptists have done exactly what America did in electing Obama, i.e. electing an Affirmative Action President, instead of the most qualified candidate. The SBC has bowed to Political Correctness in an attempt to distance themselves from their more godly (mark that) forefathers, who held better doctrine (i.e. doctrines of Grace, commonly called Calvinistic) and refused to bow to Humanistic reasoning on even the Master-Servant relation (per Colossions, Ephesians, Titus).

Titanic story wrote:
... an attempt to patch the massive hole in the SBC's defective hull. This looming disaster was started when, in schism, the SBC left the broader Baptists (c. 1845) to support purchasing and chaining-down Africans [EDIT, not] American [citizens] so they could perform servile labor benefiting the white upper crust [note racist rant].
These Calvinist Founders, apparently unable to determine which way was up when holding their Bibles, never had a clue that their biggest tithers, while profiting from the whipped backs of their slaves, were daily engaged in crimes against humanity.

lady liberty wrote:
When you chain a man down to your lilly white plantation and he eventually gains his freedom, don't you think he'll eventually want to provide freedoms to other oppressed people groups? The NAACP represents and campaigns for liberty no matter the colour.

If you considered the Bible instead of your own amoral thinking you would see what Jesus taught about just who is "oppressed":

"He who commits sin is the slave of sin".

The powerful LGBT Lobby though desperately needed the NAACP to do this since the majority of black clearly consider gay marriage neither "civil" nor "right"! Was the NAACP bribed to do this?

If same sex marriage is a civil right, by consequence, so could every other at least human but unlawful marriage be the same under the plea of "sexual orientation" (desire=identity). Polygamy, incest (all forms), minority age, etc. all could be claimed as "identity" (it's who I am). This they will deny, of course, but the line is then entirely arbitrary.