Why have some conservative Reformed churches objected to the Belhar Confession?

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I would refer you to another article by Kevin DeYoung that is included in the belhar confession: yea or nay. In it DeYoung points out that:

"there are a few lines that cannot be supported by Scripture" (an example DeYoung includes is "We believe that God, in a world full of injustice and enmity, is in a special way the God of the destitute, the poor and the wronged", indicating in contraposition that "God does not show partiality to the poor, nor does he defer to the great (Lev. 19:15)
some adopters assert that "support for h*m*sexual unions and h*m*sexual ordination is demanded by the Confession"

DeYoung also expresses his opinion that the Belhar confession raises issues rather than settling them: many extend its reach making it "a very different document than the anti-racism confession many of us read it to be".

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