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‘We support our female clergy’: Gainesville First Baptist breaks with Southern Baptists over ban on female pastors
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First Baptist Church of Gainesville - photo by David Barnes
First Baptist Church of Gainesville on Green Street is severing all ties with the Southern Baptist Convention after the denomination’s 12,000 delegates voted overwhelmingly this week to uphold the expulsion of two of its member churches for allowing women to serve as pastors.