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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Southern Baptists divided over politics, race, LGBTQ policy Divisions over race, politics, gender and LGBTQ issues are roiling the Southern Baptist Convention ahead of a meeting of its executive committee next week By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer February 20, 2021, 2:32 PM • 6 min read The Associated Press Jim Conrad, pastor of Towne View Baptist Church, looks at a copy of a letter from the Southern Baptist Convention's credentials committee on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Kennesaw, Ga. During an SBC meeting...

Divisions about race, politics, gender and LGBTQ issues are roiling America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, ahead of a meeting of its executive committee next week.

Susan Codone The disruption of my life began at age 14 in my small Southern Baptist church a few miles outside of Birmingham, Alabama. For months, my youth minister had showered me with flattering attention, telling me that God had chosen me to help his ministry. This grooming led to 18 months of progressively worse sexual abuse, layered with threats. When I could not tolerate the abuse any longer, I told the only person whom I thought could stop it—my pastor. Implausibly, he was not receptive, and suggested that maybe I had brought it on myself.  Now put your feet in my teenage Nikes and ...