Recently, a gay man was denied membership in the church by Rev Ed. Johnson, one of the senior pastors at South Hill (Va.). The man in question was an active participant in different choirs at the South Hill church and wanted to transfer his membership from another denomination. Strangely, now being a gay is no longer an illegal thing, even then he was not being permitted to continue the process of transfer, just because the pastor felt that his sexual identity was not respectable.
Unfortunately the same-sex couples are still not given their due share. How long this sensitive issue gonna last, god knows??
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