Queer Baptist Schism
Archive: Homophobia
If you didn't grow up amongst the hard line Baptists as I did you don't know that the American Baptist Churches USA are but a 10th the size of the Southern Baptist convention. Really more along the size of the American Episcopal Church. (Though the church that I attended as a lad thought the SBC hell-bound liberals.)
ABC US are usually categorized as 'mainline' meaning they've mostly been harmless, decent protestants.
A split among them is not a major shift in American homophobic theology.
Divisions over homosexuality that have embroiled several mainline Protestant denominations in the United States are now threatening to tear apart the American Baptist Churches USA, with leaders of hundreds of local churches announcing plans to secede from their national organization.
Baptists may split over gay issues
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