Article: Rein in women's group, says SBC conservatives. (Southern Baptist Convention)(News)

Southern Baptist conservatives, angered over moves by the denomination's women's auxiliary to act independently, are demanding that the women submit--be "hard-wired, one said--to conservative leadership or lose their role in the Southern Baptist Convention. In a series of statements over recent months, the conservative leaders have taken an increasingly hard line with the Women's Missionary Union, the SBC's 100-year-old auxiliary that was formed to promote Baptist mission efforts at home and abroad.

At an earlier meeting on February 8, mission board trustees had summoned officers of the missionary union to explain the union's January 10 decision to supply ...

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