Year: 2013

Forum aims to educate about religion, homosexuality

By Betty Cotton |

HICKORY, N.C. — An internationally-known furniture designer from North Carolina, two ministers and a network news anchor talked faith with Hickory’s gay community, but not everyone in the audience was ready to agree with what the pastors on stage were saying. The free forum at Lenoir-Rhyne University Saturday called “Politics, Religion, and LGBT Equality” was…

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North Carolina Pastors Take a Stand

By Dave Kistler |

HICKORY, NC | At a recent event at P.E. Monroe Auditorium on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, CNN host Wolf Blitzer hosted a conversation on “LGBT Equality” and the “changing attitude” of the church toward homosexuality. Present at the event, to monitor the conversation, were approximately 35 western North Carolina pastors representing the…

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