So. Baptists Vote No Aid to Women Pastors
Associated Press
ATLANTA —
The Southern Baptist Home Mission Board has voted not to give financial support to any woman who is a pastor of a local church.
Under Baptist practice, a local church can ordain whomever it deems fit, and more than 200 women have been ordained, despite opposition to such ordinations by fundamentalists.
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