{"id":21819,"date":"2021-02-27T17:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=21819"},"modified":"2021-02-27T17:45:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T17:45:17","slug":"the-georgia-pastor-who-welcomed-gay-members-on-getting-kicked-out-of-the-southern-baptist-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=21819","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Georgia Pastor Who Welcomed Gay Members on Getting Kicked Out of the Southern Baptist Convention&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2021\/02\/georgia-pastor-expelled-southern-baptist-convention.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>: &#8220;On Tuesday, the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation\u2019s largest Protestant denomination,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/23\/us\/southern-baptist-convention-expels-churches.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expelled four churches<\/a>. Two were voted out for employing pastors convicted of sexual crimes involving minors. But the other two\u2014Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia, and St. Matthews Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky\u2014were found to be out of step with the SBC for \u201caffirming homosexual behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand what drove a small church to break with tradition, Slate spoke with Jim Conrad, the pastor of Towne View, the day after his church\u2019s expulsion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: &#8220;On Tuesday, the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation\u2019s largest Protestant denomination,\u00a0expelled four churches. Two were voted out for employing pastors convicted of sexual crimes involving minors. But the other two\u2014Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia, and St. Matthews Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky\u2014were found to be out of step with the SBC for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21820,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions\/21820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}