Yep, “Southern Baptists” have been pretty flakey for years. The ONLY thing that kept them from PURE Flakiness was Adrian Rogers, now that he is gone they are resuming the down hill slide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Rogers
Adrian Rogers had tremendous personal influence throughout the Baptist world, and even though Baylor isn’t specifically southern Baptist, I think he would have spoken his piece to them behind the scenes.
He was my pastor for many years and I am still friends with his family. I loved him, admired him, and learned so much from him. The last few years of his life, his preaching was the only thing keeping me a Southern Baptist. His successor was (is) a disaster in my book, so I moved my family away from my longtime church home after he died. We attend a small Reformed Baptist Church and it is wonderful.
“Yep, “Southern Baptists” have been pretty flakey for years.”
Yeah, that is why the SBC took a stand (again) against homosexuality:
The living former Southern Baptist Convention presidents elected since 1980 issued a joint statement Wednesday declaring they will stand on the biblical truths concerning marriage despite anticipated legal and civil changes to the definition. Pastor Jack Graham called it “the most critical issue of our times — religious freedom and the very definition of marriage itself.”
Current SBC President Ronnie Floyd led the press conference and was joined on the platform by former SBC presidents Jimmy Draper, Bailey E. Smith, Paige Patterson, James Merritt, Jack Graham, Frank S. Page, Bryant Wright and Fred Luter.
Reading from the statement, Graham said, “The Scriptures’ teaching on marriage is not negotiable. We stake our lives upon the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus. We will not accept, nor adhere to, any legal redefinition of marriage issued by any political or judicial body including the United States Supreme Court.”
The statement, signed by 16 former presidents, was not issued on behalf of the SBC but issued to the SBC, evangelicals and the nation, Graham said.
The statement reiterates the long-established SBC stand on homosexuality and same-sex marriage but was issued as a proactive response to the impending U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage expected by the end of the month...
...Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, said, “We are urging every college, university and seminary to be crystal clear in their bylaws and in their operational manuals about what is and is not acceptable. We never saw this day coming but we are urging all to be very, very clear.” “
http://www.bpnews.net/44960/sbc-presidents-unite-declare-stand-on-marriage
Nope, Rogers was one of what ruined that denomination. He was one of those inerrancy literal types. Complete idiot. His genius was to call normal Baptists as have existed for several decades, “liberals”, and to stake out his wacky position as “conservative”.
And Rogers was in the move to try to strongly centralize control, and anathema to traditional Baptists. In truth, he was the “liberal” in the church.