The bigotry of the Southern Baptist Convention goes all the way back to the 1840s when it broke away from the larger American Baptist church to built support of slavery as a main tenet of its ideology. It is one of the key actors in co-mingling politics and religion.

I have to admit i was a Southern Baptist

I believed Gays would go to hell. I believed women that had abortions would go to hell. I believed in white supremacy even though i really didn't realize it at the time.I didn't respect anyone else's opinion except christianity and believed if other races and faiths had bad things happen then it was because god was punishing them.

BUT I know renounce those beliefs. My daughter is bisexual and it doesn't bother me. It's none of my business what a Woman does with her body. Everyone else religion or culture is just as valid as christianity. Christianity has a talking donkey and virgin birth so that's pretty unbelievable. Bad things happen to everyone and i should feel compassion instead of judging