Southern Baptist Convention bans female pastors, ejecting several churches in the process

Rev. Linda Barnes-Popham:

Oh, I wholeheartedly agree that there are internal political maneuverings, deeds done in darkness, in which we won't really understand.

The reason I believe that is, two years ago, only two years ago, the Credentials Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention deemed us in friendly cooperation with the convention. And what happened in two years? How could, two years ago, many of the same committee members want to keep us and then, two years after that, decide that we are no longer in friendly cooperation?

And they let me know then by their spokesperson we were in friendlier cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention and with the Baptist faith and message than many, many of the other churches. So, what changed? Of course, there are some kind of political maneuverings going on.

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