re: #173 Belafon

My parents go there, but I think they would like to find another church. The one good thing about the church is that it isn’t hostile towards gays and minorities, but I think they would prefer one where they are not as surrounded by those that leave their red hats at home on sunday, but I’m not quite sure how to find a more liberal church in the area. They don’t really want to travel that far, and definitely not cross Lake Ray Hubbard to get to a church.

It’s not hostile, but it’s also not accepting, much less affirming. It just doesn’t come up because LGBTQIA people aren’t going there (or if they go there, they’re very firmly in the closet). It’s part of the SBC, whose leadership is pretty much a club for white men. I would never recommend that an LGBTQIA+ person attend ANY Southern Baptist Church for so many reasons, starting with the child abuse cover up.