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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.
The amendment would tighten existing restrictions in the Southern Baptist Convention, which already has a faith statement opposing women pastors.
The vote at the annual meeting was 6,028 to 2,026 a 3-to-1 margin which easily exceeded the required two-thirds majority. It will require a similar two-thirds vote at next year's meeting to become part of the constitution.
The two-day meeting concluded Wednesday after bringing more than 11,000 delegates, or messengers, to a cavernous convention center in Orlando, Florida.
Typical of the SBC's annual meetings, the gathering carries the feel of a town hall with a cast of thousands. It mixes worship and sermons with numerous motions and resolutions governed by parliamentary procedure, where the sacred and the arcane are debated with equal fervor. A debate Wednesday over the location of a future SBC annual meeting took longer than the debate over women pastors.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/southern-baptists-vote-advance-formal-180307550.html
Church of the he-man women haters.
31st Street Bridge
(258 posts)To hell with it all.
obamanut2012
(29,642 posts)JBTaurus83
(1,768 posts)Id love to hear the Paula White types react to this.
efhmc
(17,143 posts)CousinIT
(12,835 posts)Pffft.
EYESORE 9001
(29,972 posts)I would debate their loftiest theology perfesser on the basic tenets on which this sect was founded.
3catwoman3
(29,989 posts)If so, it would be interesting to know the vote breakdown.
SheltieLover
(82,207 posts)MineralMan
(151,879 posts)MineralMan
(151,879 posts)milestogo
(23,288 posts)wcmagumba
(6,765 posts)Ritabert
(2,750 posts)Freddie
(10,173 posts)There WERE women pastors in the SBC in less hateful times. Jimmy Carters sister was a SBC minister.
One of the last acts of Carters life was to leave the SBC over their treatment of women.
Ritabert
(2,750 posts)TroubleMan
(4,869 posts)Coming from the protestant denomination that said slavery was moral, this tame for them.
Norrrm
(5,894 posts)fake?
improper?
ungodly?
obamanut2012
(29,642 posts)wcmagumba
(6,765 posts)I found the ceremony interesting and kind of fun...I don't mind thinking of the Episcopalians as Catholics without the Pope...
obamanut2012
(29,642 posts)dalton99a
(95,893 posts)
GenThePerservering
(3,915 posts)more than a few of the women pastors are popular - their congregations are not going to turn on them.
sakabatou
(46,462 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,850 posts)they probably welcome this move to put uppity women pastors in their place
RT Atlanta
(2,850 posts)Take off the filter, remove the cloak and white hoods and show them who they really are....
OrlandoDem2
(3,251 posts)Hey Joe
(870 posts)May be why I dont believe in religion now.
I believe that religion is the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on humanity.
But just my personal belief.
I still respect the rights of others to believe.
themaguffin
(5,473 posts)hatrack
(65,286 posts)I grew up a Unitarian in deep-dish Baptist country and 1 in 100 of my Baptist acquaintances were familiar with that Jesus guy - and followed his teachings.
The rest weren't worth the powder to blow them to hell.