There has been subtle, but noticeable, softening on the stance against homosexuality in the highest levels of the SBC leadership of late. Consider the latest convention meeting, where open activist homosexuals’ presence was entertained and Southern Baptist Albert Mohler all but conceded that homosexuality was most like an inborn, not-chosen orientation. Several years ago, before the national convention, SBC leaders even met for an hour with the most vicious, militant homoNazis on the front lines of the war, at the venue of the convention, to “discuss” the issue of non-acceptance of homosexuality, never mind redefined marriage. This means that the SBC has given the Gaystapo a place at the debate table, something that would have been unconscionable only a decade ago. And the homo-activists crowed about this to no end as heralding a barely perceptible move (they coddle and value the smallest incremental move and capitalize on it) in the direction of at least questioning this theology. The homosexual lobby essentially came away winners just by gaining audience, when they should have been dismissed out of hand.
That makes me sick. It affirms my decision to move my family from the SBC. I remember the day at Bellevue Baptist in Memphis when we were warned about a possible attack by a group of gays. Adrian Rogers had said something that ticked them off and they tried to organize a disruption of our services. After someone tried to stab him in the pulpit, back in the 70’s, we always had a fair amount of security, so I don’t think they would have gotten very far without a rainbow army.