More than 10,000 voting representatives gathered Tuesday for the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention’s two-day annual meeting, where they will vote on whether to ban churches with women past…
Messengers raise their ballots in support of a resolution put up for vote during a Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in Indianapolis. , where they will vote on whether to ban churches with women pastors and deliberate yet again on how to respond to sexual abuse within churches.Early Tuesday, a small group of women stood outside the Indiana Convention Center in a low-key demonstration in support of women in ministry.
Joining them was Christa Brown, who has long advocated for fellow survivors of sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches and criticized the denomination’s resistance to reforms, an effort she has chronicled in a new memoir, “Baptistland.”“When you squash some people, it sets up a lot more people to be squashed,” she said.
Later Tuesday, former Vice President Mike Pence told an audience at a sideline event that he would “never” vote for President Joe Biden, criticizing him on border, abortion and other policies. But Pence stopped short of endorsing his estranged onetime running mate, former President Donald Trump. Without criticizing Trump by name, Pence criticized those who would leave the abortion issue to the states, saying that when the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, it actually turned the issue to the states and “the American people,” and he called for officials at every level of government “to advance the sanctity of life.” He compared the “off to the states” argument with those who sought to keep slavery a states’ rights issue in the 19th century.
Pence said he remains convinced he did the right thing on Jan. 6, 2021, in fulfilling his role in certifying Biden’s election in the face of a riot and President Trump’s insistence that Pence could do otherwise. Pence said there’s nothing more un-American than the idea that one man, as vice president, could thwart the will of the electorate.
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