Come on, CBF, pull the trigger on homosexuality.

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is rather heavily invested in the recently completed [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant. Mercer University was the sponsor. Mercer ethics professor David Gushee is the individual most identified with it and despite his assurances otherwise, it looks as if the woolly mammoth in the room was homosexuality.

If I may be permitted:

The immediate past Moderator of the CBF, Colleen Burroughs had already, and notably, said as she was leaving office that the revisioned CBF’s first order of business ought to be to revisit the organization’s policy that prohibits the hiring of gays and lesbians.

In a gushing commentary on the conference, one CBF pastor “wonder[ed] if someday we’ll look on this event as a launching pad from which we were propelled to boldly go where we’ve not gone before.”

One report from the conference said that “those in attendance agreed that the conference, in the least, laid the intellectual foundation necessary for pro-LGBT advocates to gain momentum within the denomination...” a statement not disputed by any observers I have seen.

News reports summarized a keynote speaker’s presentation that “Christians no longer share a consensus that sex outside of marriage is always wrong and must find new ways to deal with that reality besides splitting into smaller and smaller groups over issues like homosexuality and contraception…”.

Sure, it’s not really any of this SBCer’s business what that autonomous Baptist entity does but I find myself asking why there is all this language about dialogue and conversations. Looks to me like the exercise is simply to build up the fortitude to go ahead and do it.

So, come on, CBF, pull the trigger on homosexuality. We know it's going to happen.

As always, happy to help.