Rift Over Gay Unions Reflects Battle New to Black Churches

Never in a "million years" did Robert Renix think he would find a Baptist church that would accept someone like him: a black Baptist gay man. Never mind one that would allow what happened one Saturday last month, when a tuxedo-clad Renix stood in front of the pulpit at Covenant Baptist Church in Anacostia, exchanging vows with his partner, Antonio Long.

Covenant Baptist Church is part of the National Baptist Convention USA. 

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