re: Transgender Pastor To Preach In Nola On Sunday

There can be a number of reasons, many of them bordering on ridiculous. Congregations can say whatever they want, but to remain a SBC affiliated congregation, they must adhere in belief with the SBC Statement of belief, which seldom/rarely/never changes more than a comma or adjective. Today's SBC Belief statement is pretty much the same as it was 90 years ago.

The big disagreement for a while was a congregation voting to call a woman to pastor a congregation. I have no idea if that belief (against) will ever change, but I am too smart to say never.

Right or wrong, I have referred to some congregations as "Cinderblock Baptist" The ones I see as that type are very conservative. They probably saw Paul as a blatant liberal (LOL)