Thousands of Southern Baptists have voted overwhelmingly to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors in the nation’s largest conservative evangelical denomination.

Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should preach to these conservative evangelical congregations.

  • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    let’s not forget that the sole reason that the Southern Baptist Convention exists is because they wanted to keep black folks out of their churches. When the big Baptist association was taking a stand on civil rights, the scum bags that would become the Southern Baptists took their ball and left.

    • Azal@pawb.socialEnglish
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      58 minutes ago

      Oh no, it was way worse than that.

      The SBC existed because Triennial Convention wouldn’t accept slavery. The SBC was formed to uphold slavery. They didn’t apologize as a congregation for their views until 1995. 150 years is a bit late to the party but it certainly helps inform why many of us aren’t surprised by this.