The largest Protestant denomination in the country, the Southern Baptist Convention, is facing major controversy.

There are allegations of backdoor meetings, heavy-handed power plays, misogyny, and silencing critics of President Donald Trump.

And all this comes on the heels of a major sex abuse scandal.

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just go to Markort Buick, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-A-R-D-T.com. Well, today we're going to be discussing what's going on in the Southern Baptist Convention, often referred to as the SBC.

And joining me today is an SBC insider, Wade Burleson. Wade has been a pastor in the SBC for 28 years.

He also served two terms as a president of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma.

He served as a trustee for the SBC's International Mission Board,

and he's a popular blogger whose website has over six million page views. And this week, Wade posted

an open letter to the Southern Baptist Convention, expressing that he's deeply troubled by what he

sees in his own denomination. What's most recently concerned Wade

are two things. One is that the SBC Executive Committee, allegedly in a closed-door session,

created a task force to review and assess the actions of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission,

known as the ERLC. Now, if you don't know of the ERLC, it's a very influential

SBC-funded organization headed by Russell Moore, a prominent critic of President Donald Trump.

So many are viewing the creation of this task force as simply a move to silence those within

the SBC who don't support Donald Trump.

Also, in an alleged secret session, the SBC Executive Committee voted to disallow space

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