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The Louisville-based Kentucky Baptist Conventn, which has long opposed same-sex marriage, ordag gay misters and believ homosexualy is sful, voted to end s relatnship wh KBC-affiliated church that also ma fancial ntributns to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship at s annual meetg Pikeville, Kentucky. At Lyndon Baptist Church, another Louisville-area church kicked out of the nventn, Pastor Jim Holladay said he’s not worried about any fallout for his ngregatn but noted that he or his church haven’t even taken a formal posn on the hirg of gay, lbian or transgenr workers.
Pl Chwood, executive director of the nventn, said an terview that the nventn uld not support groups that “embrace alternative liftyl” and adopt polici that “refe what is right and wrong” when to Baptist beliefs that homosexualy is a s. The powerful Kentucky Baptist Conventn, ma up of over 2, 400 church wh more than 750, 000 members across the state, has prevly oted ngregatns that bls gay unns and wele people who are lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr as pastors and missnari. Last year, Chwood warned that if the fellowship’s lears softened their le agast hirg “practicg homosexuals, ” would be a perilo step the wrong directn.