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Southern Baptists Vote to Keep Out Churches With Female Pastors

www.nytimes.com Southern Baptists Vote to Further Expand Restrictions on Women as Leaders

Delegates at the denomination’s convention approved a stricter ban on female pastors and rejected the appeals of two churches led by women to remain in the denomination.

Southern Baptists Vote to Further Expand Restrictions on Women as Leaders

“No one is asking any Southern Baptist to change their theology,” Mr. Warren said. “I am not asking you to agree with our church. I am asking you to act like Southern Baptists who have historically ‘agreed to disagree’ on dozens of doctrines in order to share a common mission.”

What was the initial Southern Baptist mission again? Oh that's right, it was allowing slaveholders to take leadership positions as well as to take the missionary position

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