Kentucky Baptists Propose Banning Churches From Giving to CBF Over LGBT Hiring Policy

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(Photo: CBFGA)The headquarters for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Georgia.

Leaders in the Kentucky Baptist Convention have endorsed a recommendation to end the convention’s cooperation with dually aligned churches that continue providing support to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in the wake of CBF’s new policy ending a ban on LGBT employees.

Last Saturday, The KBC Mission Board and Administrative Committee endorsed a recommendation offered by the KBC Credentials Committee that would make it so KBC congregations that give to CBF will no longer be considered in cooperation with the state affiliate of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Committee on Credentials was directed following reports of CBF’s new hiring policy allowing for LGBT individuals to apply for non-leadership positions to review the situation involving CBF (that has 1,800 member churches) and KBC (which has 2,400 member churches), and make a formal policy recommendation at KBC’s annual meeting in November.

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