Bart Barber's election was the second rebuke delivered by SBC church representatives to a...
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Texas pastor Bart Barber was elected Tuesday as president of the Southern Baptist Convention.second rebuke
delivered by SBC church representatives to a hardline, ultra-conservative faction that had increasingly aligned itself with right-wing political groups and pushed back on abuse reforms. He defeated Florida pastor Tom Ascol with 60 percent of the votes in a runoff election that was announced late Tuesday evening, after most of the 8,000 church representatives in attendance had already left their meeting in Anaheim, Calif. The SBC’s two-day annual meeting, which began Tuesday, is a place where thousands of “messengers” from Southern Baptist churches gather to vote and debate on proposals and elect officers for the next year.
Ascol’s candidacy was backed by the Conservative Baptist Network, a splinter group of SBC churches, leaders and conservative politicos that was created in 2020 in opposition to what they say is a liberal drift in the SBC, the nation’s second-largest faith group.
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