A Baptist church in North Carolina has discontinued funding to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship because the congregation feels the organization’s new hiring policy opening the door to LGBT employees isn’t inclusive enough.
On Sunday, members Greenwood Forest Baptist Church in Cary voted to halt church funding to the 1,800-church CBF in response to the fellowship’s recent decision to update its hiring policy to allow for the hiring of practicing homosexual employees.
Although the new policy announced in February as a result of the CBF’s two-year “Illumination Project” opens the door for prospective gay employees, it still prohibits gay individuals from being considered for leadership roles within the organization.
In a statement issued Tuesday, the congregation explained that it will suspend funding to Cooperative Baptist institutions “until their leadership rescinds a hiring practice discriminatory to LGBT people.” It also urged other churches to do the same.
“We have been told that most positions are open to LGBT people, but most is not enough,” a letter from the church to CBF leadership reads. “Any discrimination is too much discrimination. That discrimination against LGBT people extends…
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