More Bigotry From the Southern Baptist Convention

I guess it should not be a surprise given the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC") roots in break away Baptist churches that wanted to keep blacks as chattel property and legally less than human, but nonetheless it is amazing to see the lengths that the SBC will go to punish any SBC affiliated entity that treats gay individuals as anything less than garbage. I have written previously on this blog about how historic Broadway Baptist Church ("BBC") in Fort Worth , Texas, was driven from the SBC for - oh my, the horrors! - not ejecting gay members of the congregation. Now, the bigotry has gone a step further and the Tarrant County Baptist Association has been jettisoned from the SBC for not being sufficiently nasty and vindictive toward the BBC. Increasingly, the main tenants of the SBC are hatred and intolerance and one can only how Christ must look at the leadership and think he's seeing a reincarnation of the Temple leaders of his time who took hypocrisy and a despising of others to great heights. The Christian Post looks at this latest example of why the younger generations hold Christianity in an increasingly negative light. Here are highlights:
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Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has asked an association of churches to leave its Fort Worth, Texas, campus because the seminary says the group has a member church or churches that tolerate homosexuality.
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A 1997 affiliation agreement between Tarrant Baptist Association and the seminary for use of an office building on the campus requires that the two organizations remain in "theological harmony."
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The seminary, which is associated with the Southern Baptist Convention, contends that the association has violated the agreement for retaining fellowship with a church or churches that don't adhere to the denomination's position that homosexuality is a sin.
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The Rev. Brent Beasley of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth told the Dallas Morning News that his church is the one "being referred to." The SBC voted in 2009 to sever ties with Broadway Baptist over its policy to welcome LGBT members. Last fall, the local church ended its 125-year-old affiliation with the General Baptist Convention of Texas rather then face a challenge over its policy at the annual convention.
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The seminary also asserted that the association has not been helpful in job placements for professors and students in TBA member churches and stated that it needs more space for offices and a Welcome Center. The association has 395 member churches, according to its website.
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Frankly, I'd call the non-stp dissemination of hate and bigotry a far greater sin than welcoming gays who modern science has shown to be created just as they are - gay by the garce and design of God and not by individual choice.