Last week, a vote to ban women pastors fell just short of the two-thirds needed by the 10,000 delegates attending the Southern Baptist Convention.
Those who voted against the constitutional amendment said it was unnecessary since the denomination’s official doctrine already forbids female pastors.
Delegates also weighed in on the fertility treatment called in vitro fertilization, where embryos can be fertilized outside of a woman’s body and then implanted in her womb.
On this measure, the majority voted for a resolution condemning the procedure.
Both decisions are firmly within the denomination’s prerogative.
If they rub a member the wrong way, they can leave the fold.
On Wednesday, Louisiana enacted a law that all public classrooms, from kindergarten up through university, must prominently display the Ten Commandments.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry relished signing the bill into law, saying he’s following Moses, whom he declared as the country’s original law-maker.
Landry then dared opponents to challenge the law.
“I can’t wait to be sued,” he said.
When a state or any other public entity imposes a religious-based set of rules on its citizens it usually is found to violate our country’s premise of religious freedom as provided by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
Unlike Iran or Saudi Arabia, we do not have an official religion.
It appears Gov. Landry would like to make Louisiana the exception, because don’t you know the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
Some Louisiana legislators know exactly who’s to blame.
“Given all the junk our children are exposed to in classrooms today, it is imperative that we put the Ten Commandments back in a prominent position,” said State Representative Dodie Horton, the Republican sponsor of the legislation.
