America’s largest Protestant denomination leaves the door open for female pastors. VERBATIM: The Southern Baptist Convention forbids women in the clergy as a practice but it’s not officially part of the organization’s constitution. And it still isn’t as delegates the summer convention have failed to pass a measure that would have permanently banned women from […]
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America’s largest Protestant denomination leaves the door open for female pastors
America’s largest Protestant denomination leaves the door open for female pastors.
VERBATIM: The Southern Baptist Convention forbids women in the clergy as a practice but it’s not officially part of the organization’s constitution. And it still isn’t as delegates the summer convention have failed to pass a measure that would have permanently banned women from being pastors. The vote fell about five percent short of the two-thirds majority needed to amend the SBC’s constitution. Michael Harrington, SRN News.