[Just another Joe]

I'm saying that there would be a lot of Southern Baptists that would tell the Southern Baptist Convention exactly what they could do with their pronouncement.

Just because a church is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention does not mean that they are bound by anything the Convention pronounces.

I believe that's one reason the split was made from the Catholics.

Trying to get Baptists within a church to agree on something is bad enough.

[Walmartian]

Jimmy Carter’s Southern Baptist church in Plains Georgia (where he is a Sunday school teacher) is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. I think he used to be president of the United States but his beliefs are not those of the SBC entirely.