[chajin]

Not true. It has really come about in the last decade.

I worked in a Methodist church in the mid 80s as the music director, and the youth director was an American Baptist (why the church hired her as opposed to a UMC deacon I don't know). She was a full-on liberal theologian and feminist, and left when the bishop assigned a conservative pastor to the congregation. The liberals in the congregation were mad, but they couldn't fire the pastor, so they fired me instead. That was my experience of the American Baptists :-)

[Dartoid]

Perhaps I am confusing SBC with American Baptist. My apologies.