Southern Baptist Convention's hypocritical resolution blasts gays, lesbians, trans, and childless couples, but lets

[lees1975]

the sexual abusers in their own ranks and Trump's immorality slide.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/this-years-southern-baptist-convention.html

The "Largest Protestant denomination in the United States" just finished its annual meeting in Dallas yesterday. A list of resolutions condemning what they see as the social and moral ills of the country is usually forthcoming. This year, the formal complaint about all that they perceive is wrong with this country came out in one long, 1,000 word resolution that was brought to the floor of the convention, got every little debate, and passed.

They condemned gays, lesbians, childless couples, people who remain single, and transgendered persons by pointing out how pervasive all of these things have become in our culture.

They left out the fact that for the past six years, they have been stymied by their inability to deal effectively with a sexual abuse crisis within their own denomination, in which hundreds of pastors and other church leaders, including those working with youth and children, have been reported for abusing members of their churches. In many cases, because Baptist churches are independent and autonomous, abusers have been able to move on from a church where they've been exposed, to another congregation that is not aware of the abuse.

Many of these cases were reported to the denomination's Executive Committee, which not only kept them confidential, and did nothing to stop the abuse, but which actually wound up protecting abusers by claiming that, because they have no ecclesiastical authority over any local church, they could not take any action.

[Vogon_Glory]

1. Not to mention the SBC's thunderous silence on the Trump Administration's

assault on maternal and infant health care in rural areas and the poorer sectors of American society. What’s more, I don’t recall hearing much about the Southern Baptist Convention supporting child tax credits or child care subsidies, either.

IMO, the SBC’s leadership has unwittingly made a pact with Moloch when they fell into line behind Orange Julius and the Republican Party.

[lees1975]

2. They are opposed to anything that helps the poor, marginalized, disadvantaged.

They have taken a stand against a lot of employer health coverage mandates, because churches have to pay premiums for full time staff members.

So much for, "you have done it unto the least of these, so you have done it unto me." They've done it, all right.

[Skittles]

3. they are fucking DISGUSTING

their "faith" is a SICK JOKE

FUCK THEM ALL

[lees1975]

4. Yes, as the article in the link points out

From the Signal Press

Perhaps the presence of individuals Southern Baptists want to publicly label as "sinners" instead of neighbors is something they see as an indictment of themselves, because of their ineffectiveness in their ministry of evangelism, winning converts to Christ who then reflect what they consider to be the values of the Christian gospel. They've got some idea that God is going to judge the country because it does not collectively adhere to a specific religious practice and because of the presence of certain kinds of sinners. So God is going to judge America because of gays, lesbians, and transgendered persons, along with childless couples and single people who choose not to marry, but not because of Southern Baptist pastors and youth leaders who rape and abuse members of their congregation, or Presidents who are serial adulterers, liars, rebellious insurrectionists and rapists?

[Skittles]

5. it is a sickness

I firmly believe if you can get people to believe in such nonsense you can make them believe ANYTHING.

[hatrack]

6. There's a reason they're "Southern" Baptists . . .

They were the pro-slavery wing of the Baptists.

Pro-slavery Baptists.

Pro-slavery.

Throw in a heapin' helpin' of bullshit Calvinism and "prosperity gospel" and that's pretty much everything you need to know.

[lees1975]

7. K & R

[RussBLib]

8. did they finally remove "dancing" from the list of moral decay?

The Baptists demonstrate once again the decay and rot of modern religion.

https://russblib.blogspot.com