Baptist professor claims he was fired for being too anti-gay
A gadfly college professor who clings to the largely discredited practice of “conversion” therapy to change sexual orientation says the Southern Baptist Convention is wavering in its condemnation of homosexuality.
“I think the Southern Baptist Convention is going to flip on homosexuality, but they are going to do it very indirectly,” Robert Oscar Lopez, until recently a humanities professor at the undergraduate arm of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, said in a recent interview with conservative Christian talk show host Bryan Fisher.
I live in Southern Baptist country, and I can guarantee you that there is no danger of the SBC ever ‘flipping’. What is going on here is that Professor Lopez is so strident that even the crazies find him off-putting. Still, the kernel of the story make for an engaging daydream.
I am sure that, here to there, there must be Southern Baptists who don’t revile gays; in a denomination of about 15-million people it’s all but a statistical certainty that there are such. But anybody who thinks gays will be welcomed into rural southern church ‘families’ anytime soon is out of touch with reality.