Josh wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:32 pm
Beth Moore supports women in church leadership positions, which is an unbiblical position, and also a hallmark of someone moving in a liberal direction. (Denominations that adopt this generally don’t stay conservative very long; this is happening in the SBC for example.)
That's quite different from your original accusation. But it is true that she believes that.
FWIW, I really do think we would be much better off talking about biblical versus unbiblical instead of using the UNBIBLICAL terms "liberal" and "conservative", which are not mentioned in the Bible even once and tend to get confused with political identities.
Josh wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:32 pmMoore has a history of always taking the liberal sides in events, such as when she made a statement against the March for Life incident with Sandmann (since withdrawn). She’s as guilty of joining social media goon squads as anyone.
I don't know what she said about Sandmann. I do know that she is against abortion. I also know this - the incident that really hit her hardest and probably led to her leaving the Southern Baptist Church involved
taking a stand for basic sexual morality.
Moore was flying home from a ministry event in October 2016 when she decided to compose the tweets that changed her life. That weekend, she had glimpsed headlines about Donald Trump’s 2005 comments on the now infamous Access Hollywood tape. But it wasn’t until that plane ride, with newspapers and transcripts spread out in front of her, that Moore learned the full extent of it—including the reaction of some Christian leaders who, picking up a common line of spin, dismissed the comments as “locker-room talk.”
“I was like, ‘Oh no. No. No,’ ” Moore told me. “I was so appalled.” Trump’s ugly boasting felt personal to her: Many of her followers have confided to her that they’ve suffered abuse, and Moore herself says she was sexually abused as a small child by someone close to her family—a trauma she has talked about publicly, though never in detail.
The next day, Moore wrote a few short messages to her nearly 900,000 followers. “Wake up, Sleepers, to what women have dealt with all along in environments of gross entitlement & power,” she said in one tweet. “Are we sickened? Yes. Surprised? NO.” Like other women, Moore wrote, she had been “misused, stared down, heckled, talked naughty to.” As pastors took to the airwaves to defend Trump, she was trying to understand how “some Christian leaders don’t think it’s that big a deal.”
The tweets upended Moore’s cheerful, feminine world. Breitbart News claimed that Moore was standing “in the gap for Hillary Clinton,” borrowing a turn of phrase from the Book of Ezekiel. Moore did not support Clinton; she told me she voted for a third-party candidate in 2016. But she was horrified by church leaders’ reflexive support of Trump. To Moore, it wasn’t just a matter of hypocrisy, of making a deal with the devil that would deliver a Supreme Court seat, among other spoils. Moore believes that an evangelical culture that demeans women, promotes sexism, and disregards accusations of sexual abuse enabled Trump’s rise.