by Sandy » Sat Jun 16, 2018 9:57 am
An interesting choice of terms, there. Moderate in a secular political sense, perhaps. Theologically, maybe in that there is clearly a segment of the SBC that is a little bit further to the left than the complementarian leadership, or at least, the complementarian old guard.
Seems like what prompted the use of the term was what I would call a surprising negative reaction to the self-initiated campaign stump appearance of the VP. Trump's only real core constituency left is White Evangelicals. Lots of those in the SBC, clearly, white, from the South, past 60. But I've also seen reports, and heard from a friend who was there, that the minority representation was larger than usual, which would probably be expected in Dallas, in a state where the Latino and African American fellowship groups in the state conventions are larger than most state conventions outside the South. So while the SBC is an Evangelical denomination, it is not an all-white Evangelical denomination, and when you put Latinos, African Americans, and Asians into the mix, the percentage of Trump supporters falls quickly.
Christian denominations don't always work smoothly on a system of "majority rules." The older white crowd is still the majority, but it is certainly not the future.