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.
Oh no, it was way worse than that.
The SBC existed because Triennial Convention wouldn’t accept slavery. The SBC was formed to uphold slavery. They didn’t apologize as a congregation for their views until 1995. 150 years is a bit late to the party but it certainly helps inform why many of us aren’t surprised by this.
I am sure they will realize they are making a mistake and apologize 150 years from now.
I firmly believe that a woman who is in her heart a deeply racist and hateful person should be allowed to become a SBC pastor.
It took them 150 years to say they were sorry the congregation was formed by people who thought other people were livestock. I would be shocked if they actually apologized for less.
Oh damn! My bad. I can’t believe I was so wrong.
I mean… they’ve done a FANTASTIC job on their PR campaign hiding that history so I don’t blame others for missing it. But I’ll certainly be the first one to point it out every chance I can. There’s a lot of terrible religions, and the SBC may not be the exact worst when Scientology exists. but it’s certainly up there.