Southern Baptists Roiled Over Trump And LGBTs

The Associated Press reports:

Divisions over race, politics, gender and LGBTQ issues are roiling America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, ahead of a meeting of its executive committee next week.

On the agenda are two items reflecting those divisions: A recommendation that a church in Kennesaw, Georgia, be ousted from the SBC because it accepted LGBTQ people into its congregation, contravening Southern Baptist doctrine; and a report by an executive committee task force criticizing the widely respected leader of the SBC’s public policy arm, the Rev. Russell Moore.

Among the grievances against Moore: His outspoken criticism of Donald Trump during Trump’s 2016 election campaign and his presidency.

Read the full article. Moore called for Trump to resign after the January 6th riots.

Southern Baptists divided over politics, gender, race, LGBTQ policy ahead of executive committee meeting (from @AP) #religion https://t.co/T8dQfAHZMU

— David Crary (@CraryAP) February 20, 2021