Current Events > Southern Baptist votes to ban women from being pastors.

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https://www.newsnationnow.com/religion/southern-baptists-refuse-to-let-saddleback-church-back-into-the-denomination-for-women-pastors/

The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold, rejecting an appeal by the California megachurch over its February ouster for having women pastors.

Southern Baptist church representatives at their annual meeting here also rejected a similar appeal by a smaller church, Fern Creek Baptist of Louisville, Kentucky, which is led by a woman pastor.

The results of the Tuesday votes were announced Wednesday morning on the concluding day of the two-day annual meeting here of the nations largest Protestant denomination, whose statement of faith asserts that only qualified men can serve as pastors.

Saddleback had been the denominations second-largest congregation and until recently was widely touted as a success story amid larger Southern Baptist membership declines.

With the 9,437-1,212 vote, delegates rejected an appeal by Rick Warren, the retired founding pastor of Saddleback and author of the best-selling phenomenon, The Purpose Driven Life. Warren had urged Baptists to agree to disagree in order to share a common mission.

Church representatives also voted 9,700-806 to deny an appeal by a smaller congregation, Fern Creek Baptist Church of Louisville, Kentucky, which has had a woman pastor for three decades but came under heightened scrutiny this year.

Warren and the Rev. Linda Barnes Popham, pastor of Fern Creek, made their final appeals to Southern Baptists here on Tuesday during the denominations annual meeting.

In February, the Southern Baptist Conventions Executive Committee voted to oust the two congregations, along with three others that chose not to appeal, for having women pastors.

All Baptist churches are independent, so the convention cant tell them what to do, but it can decide which churches are not in friendly cooperation, the official verbiage for an expulsion. The SBCs official statement of faith says the office of pastor is reserved for qualified men, but this is believed to be the first time the convention has expelled any churches over it.

Wow.

Leopards been eating good lately

The regressive tendencies must continue.

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80477292

Goes right in hand with that Conservative Conference telling women that they shouldn't focus in careers and should stay in the home

Questionmarktarius posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80477292

To be fair, that topic doesn't mention church or southern or baptist in the topic title so idk how tc was supposed to find it, even if they looked

If they were Spanish, they'd be pastas

Religion treating women like shit? That's a tough pill to swallow.

As a person who grew up Southern Baptist, honestly no surprise. Not only is there "biblical scriptures" to promote such a thing, but there is also the sexist thought that women can't lead and that's a man's job only. The only thing you can really do, as an outside looking in, is to roll your eyes on it.

And people wonder why religion is falling apart.

ArtiRock posted...

And people wonder why religion is falling apart.

"Why won't people under 50 attend church?"

Dont they allow married pastors?