The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or deacons or chaplains in the military service. Some Southern Baptist seminaries don't even permit women to teach male students. I don't agree with that. But they can go in and quote a few passages of Paul that women should be restricted in their services.
The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.
Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.
I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt.
Well, I was dedicated to God before I was born by Momma and Daddy, and I was raised in a very traditional Southern Baptist home.
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.
I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.
I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.
'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.
My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian.
My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.
I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
If you were raised in Oklahoma, you've got to be a Southern Baptist or something.