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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The sole opposition came from South Carolina pastor Doug Mize. He said the measure wasn’t necessary because the denomination already has a mechanism to expel churches with women in senior pastoral positions, and it’s done so on multiple times.

    “What we have already works,” he said.

    It sounds like they can be assistants, but if one gets control they kick the whole church out

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      This isn’t a toxic system at all. It treats everyone fairly. The men get treated fairly by letting them raise their voices at crowds, and women get treated fairly with exile.

      Perfectly fair.

    • Hinterwalder@feddit.org
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      2 days ago

      I have no recent experience with Southern Baptists but twenty years ago the rule was, women cannot teach the Bible to men. It wasn’t common but it was tolerable for women to be a music leader. Women could teach and counsel other women. Women could teach children. Women could teach men anything that was not the Bible or derived from it. If the church had a food pantry or a crisis pregnancy center, women could run it and give orders to men who worked there, except on any matter touching religious doctrine.