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Yes, I am familiar with the process. It was done to a woman friend for exactly the reasons you describe when she was about 17 and really in need of some Christian support. (She kept the baby and raised on her own. A lot of heartache there but she was and is a good woman.) However, outside of self isolating groups such as the Amish dechurching has little bite except for helpless types such as my friend. Adults can pretty much say 'up yours' and find another congregation to take them, If you live in NC there are plenty of different kinds of Baptists around. I don't if the Rev and his congregation are SBC or independent or Primitive or what. The idiot writing the AP dispatch surely didn't.

Up here in New England we have the Unitarians for those who don't want to have to deal with faith or religious belief or moral absolutes when they go to "church". Just a good place to go to be accepted and have just about whatever you want to do validated as being "ok" and "normal".

Again, let me say, I don't agree with throwing people out of a church. However, the article doesn't give both sides of the story. Isn't there at least a possibility that those Democrats who were asked to leave were being disruptive to the church body as a whole? What if a group of liberals joined your church and wanted to get a gay minister? Or wanted to the church to support a pro-choice stance? We're not getting both sides of the story from this article. It's merely intended to make Southern Christians look narrow-minded and hateful.