The senior pastor of a Baptist church embroiled in a debate over putting photos of its gay members in a church directory will be allowed to keep his pulpit.
Members of Fort Worth's Broadway Baptist Church voted 499 to 237 on March 9 to reject an attempt to oust the Rev. Brett Younger.
"I hope we will move forward and be the church together and that others will come and share church with us," said Younger, who has led the congregation for seven years. "Broadway has been, for a long time, an amazing congregation that is willing to tackle difficult issues. I think it will continue to be a congregation that challenges its members to think and serve."
A group calling itself Friends for the Future of Broadway had collected more than 160 signatures on a petition calling for Younger's removal. They worried that Younger was embracing a theology they considered too liberal.
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