During a meeting at the UMC we attend
“What if they send us a gay pastor?”
Older woman: “Fine with me as long as it isn’t a woman”
I don’t know what it is about older people not liking female pastors even if they are in a denomination that allows them.
Our local first baptist church went liberal in the 1980’s, women deacons and pastors and are now touting they are not SBC and mocking the SBC decision to remove churches for women pastors. One of their female deacons is furious with the SBC for doing this but like your situation she is upset along with others, older members in the congregation which is dying, that they are allowing a gay choir director and youth leader(they now have almost no youth in the church). I said well the gays need to hear the Word and repent, but they don’t need to be in any position of teaching and leadership in that condition. Her response, well we can’t judge, all right...
She was complaining to me and I wanted to say something like, you are in reverse gagging on a gnat and swallowing a herd of camels here sister, but I listened to her rant. Her daughter when she was a teenager actually left her church in the 1980’s when they went liberal because of the women deacons/pastors thing, told her it wasn’t Biblical and they would regret it. They are, as their congregation is withering on the vine. It will close the doors in ten years as their remaining congregation dies off.