THESE KANSAS CITY-AREA MINISTERS CALL FOR DEFEAT OF SSM BAN: From the Kansas City Star
 
A group of Kansas City area ministers said Thursday that a proposed ban on gay marriages in Missouri is unfair and should be defeated.
 
The Aug. 3 constitutional amendment is "unnecessary and mean-spirited," said the Rev. Jim Eller, minister at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City, where the forum was held. About a dozen ministers attended.Gays are entitled to the same legal rights as other couples, Eller said.
 
"As a religious leader, I am called to stand for justice, equity and human dignity, as God as is my witness," Eller said at the forum sponsored by the Constitution Defense League, formed to oppose the proposed marriage ban.
 
The group circulated at the forum a list of 92 ministers from a range of faiths, including Baptists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Jews and Methodists, who are opposed to the ban.
 
The ministers argue that Scripture embraces loving, committed relationships and denounces discrimination, which is what they believe the gay marriage ban amounts to. ...
 
Supporters of the gay marriage ban were not invited to the forum, but Vicky Hartzler, spokeswoman for the Coalition to Protect Marriage in Missouri, said there are thousands of clergy in the state who favor the amendment.
 
Hartzler said the Bible says God created men and women with the intent they be together.
 
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