Southern Baptist Convention

America has become more secular and less religious. So religion has responded by becoming more political, and conservative causes are used as the litmus test.

If it wasn’t for veiled scriptures and rules across Abrahamic religion, would there have ever been “religious” justifications to persecute people based on same-sex sexuality and gender diversity?

The departure of prominent leader Russell Moore shows opposing LGBTQ rights isn’t enough. Now, morality means supporting whatever Trump says.

While Jesus may have preached radical inclusivity and the Bible demands churches welcome all “sinners,” the SBC’s Executive Committee is more worried about what the neighbors would think.

Its oppressive racist, sexist, antisemitic, and heterosexist legacy will remain for eternity.

But that doesn’t mean the romance is over.

DC Baptists was accused of “tacitly approving” of a church’s “unbiblical actions.”

The Southern Baptists ousted one leader for minimizing sexual abuse, but they’re still cheering the adulterer-in-chief.

Paige Patterson has an unparalleled record of homophobia, but it’s his defense of spousal abuse that’s started a firestorm.

People are now speculating about what the anti-LGBT leader did… and with whom.

He allegedly told the teen that when they had sex, it was a “God-sanctioned secret.”

Some Baptist “leaders” appear more willing to tear their denomination apart than grant rights to LGBTQ people.

Evangelical Christians are coming out in droves to defend an accused child molester, but why have they consistently chosen to give up Christ for culture wars?

Dwight McKissic wanted the Southern Baptist Convention to condemn white nationalism, white supremacy, and the alt-right.

Political expediency beats eternal verities every time.

This isn’t the first Baptist church to hire an openly gay minister or even to have lesbian co-pastors, but it is still known for making history.

Christian Right leaders may be assuming they’ll lose their battle against equality for LGBTQ people, and they are hunkering down for what they foresee as a long siege against conservative Christian churches, businesses, and organizations.

The president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination vowed never to officiate a gay union, and the Southern Baptist Convention called on the Supreme Court not to declare same-sex marriage a constitutional right.

Next week, American Religious Right leaders including the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore, pastor Rick Warren, Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput, and Latter-Day Saints official Henry Eyring will be joining opponents of LGBT equality from around the world at an interfaith conference on the “complementarity of man and woman in marriage” hosted by the Vatican.

The Southern Baptist Convention has kicked out a California church that voted earlier this year to disagree that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin. The Associated Baptist Press reports the Convention’s Executive Committee voted unanimously on Tuesday to declare New Heart Community Church in La Mirada, Calif., not in “friendly cooperation” with …