Marriage licenses signed by ministers create an unhealthy union of church and state, and they historically have been used as instruments of racial oppression and the subjugation of females, a trio of Baptist pastors told a group of their peers.
“Signing marriage licenses is a bad idea. We should stop doing it. The marriage license is a way for the state to assert its power over people,” Kyle Henderson, pastor of First Baptist Church in Athens, told a gathering of pastors on the eve of the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting.
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