[GeronL]

Good we need more, much more, resistance to the New Fascist Order

[Fido969]

This should be interesting.

[zerosix]

Way to go SBC and blessings to NAMB (No. American Missions Board!)

[righttackle44]

Naturally, the Associate Press and ABC have it wrong. The Southern Baptist Convention does not issue edicts and commands that members churches and individual members of Southern Baptist churches must follow.

The Convention, by and through it's membership of individual churches supported by Messengers from those churches, may issue opinions and resolutions strongly encouraging or discouraging certain behaviors or courses of actions. The convention enacts these opinions and resolutions by action of the members of the SBC churches, not the other way around.

So for the media to say that the Convention is requiring this of Chaplains is just plain malarkey. But I'm pretty certain that, probably the Convention as a whole, and I certainly as an individual member of a Southern Baptist church, would discourage chaplains from participating in these ungodly activities.

[WKB]

Baptist ping

[BillyBoy]

>>> The Southern Baptist Convention, which provides the largest share of active-duty military chaplains, has barred members from taking part in weddings, counseling sessions and couples retreats for same-sex couples. <<

Odd, we keep hearing from Baptist freepers that the SBC is NOT like the Catholic Church because it would NEVER tell invididual pastors what they can and cannot do in THEIR ministry, and instead uses a "bottom-up" approach where the local church has the greatest atonomy to do whatever they want, with progressively weaker levels of power at higher levels, and the national board being basically just a advisory board to "help out"

[MayflowerMadam]

Well duh. What SBC minister would even think of participating?