Church’s sign stirs emotional response

CORTLAND — The pastor of First Church of God on South High Street says he didn’t imagine that the message that appeared on the sign board in front of the church for one week would cause the kind of stir that it did.

When a regular volunteer approached him to ask about the message he had planned for that week, Pastor Jason Horrocks approved it without much thought.

“It’s kind of a Christian saying,” the pastor said.

The message read, “In God’s plan it was Adam & Eve not Adam & Steve,” then it references two Bible passages, from Book of Genesis and the Gospel of Matthew.

After it appeared for close to a week, Pastor Horrocks was informed by a member of his congregation that some people were upset with the message, and the pastor went to a Facebook group called “Everything Cortland” to discover that the sign had generated about 300 comments, some of which were angry.

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