The executive committee ousted the churches — including Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, one of the convention's largest member churches — for having female pastors.
the Rev. Linda Barnes Popham of Fern Creek Baptist said this move by SBC leadership seems to be over power and control.
"I'm not sure who the exact folks are who've spearheaded this movement to get rid of female pastors," she said."Why now? I mean, is it to divert attention away from all the sexual abuse scandals? I don't know." Some members of the community turned to social media to criticize the executive committee's decision.that the disfellowship of Saddleback specifically wasn't about"It's driven by power, male supremacy; and it stinks in the nostrils of God," he said.According to Matthew Gabriele, the chairman of the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech, the SBC has always been a conservative organization slow to embrace or acknowledge societal change.
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