
Joy Ashford
Faith Reporter at The Dallas Morning News
faith reporter at @dallasnews through @report4america ✉️: [email protected]
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gazettextra.com | Joy Ashford |Matt Kyle
By Adrian Ashford and Matt Kyle - The Dallas Morning News (TNS) DALLAS - A constitutional ban on women pastors and a proposal to abolish a public policy agency accused of compromising with leftists narrowly failed on the last day of this year's Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas. Close margins on both key votes demonstrated the staunchly conservative views of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, which counts 12.7 million members. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.
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dailyitem.com | Joy Ashford |Matt Kyle
DALLAS — A constitutional ban on women pastors and a proposal to abolish a public policy agency accused of compromising with leftists narrowly failed on the last day of this year’s Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas. Close margins on both key votes demonstrated the staunchly conservative views of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, which counts 12.7 million members. kAm“p=E9@F89 H6 925 2 =@E @7 5:D4FDD:@? 23@FE D6G6C2= E9:?8D[ E96C6 H2D?’E 2 C62= D6?D6 @7 2 4@?E6?E:@FD DA:C:E :?
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union-bulletin.com | Joy Ashford |Matt Kyle
DALLAS — A constitutional ban on women pastors and a proposal to abolish a public policy agency accused of compromising with leftists narrowly failed on the last day of this year’s Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas. Close margins on both key votes demonstrated the staunchly conservative views of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, which counts 12.7 million members.
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swoknews.com | Joy Ashford |Matt Kyle
DALLAS — A constitutional ban on women pastors and a proposal to abolish a public policy agency accused of compromising with leftists narrowly failed on the last day of this year’s Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas. Close margins on both key votes demonstrated the staunchly conservative views of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, which counts 12.7 million members. kAm“p=E9@F89 H6 925 2 =@E @7 5:D4FDD:@? 23@FE D6G6C2= E9:?8D[ E96C6 H2D?’E 2 C62= D6?D6 @7 2 4@?E6?E:@FD DA:C:E :?
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thederrick.com | Joy Ashford |Matt Kyle
DALLAS — A constitutional ban on women pastors and a proposal to abolish a public policy agency accused of compromising with leftists narrowly failed on the last day of this year’s Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas. Close margins on both key votes demonstrated the staunchly conservative views of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, which counts 12.7 million members.
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Proposals at this year's Southern Baptist Convention to create a constitutional ban on women pastors and to abolish the denomination's public policy arm both failed today by narrow margins. @MattKyleDMN @dallasnews @Report4America https://t.co/dwQBJW7oP5

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The Southern Baptist Convention endorsed today overturning the 10-year-old Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. It also condemned “willful childlessness” and “the normalization of transgender ideology.” @MattKyleDMN @dallasnews @Report4America https://t.co/MhPPsh7rat