On the day he was elected to lead the state’s Baptist convention, the Rev. Mark Harris fielded a threatening voice mail that gave him a quick glimpse of the approaching battle over same-sex marriage in North Carolina.
Harris didn’t want to describe the entire message, only the essence: He needed to stop “spewing hatred” toward homosexuals and their families.
In November, Harris, senior minister at uptown Charlotte’s First Baptist Church, was elected to a yearlong term as president of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, representing 4,300 N.C. Baptist churches and their 1.3 million members.
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