Yarbrough: On banning women from Baptist pulpits

Hear this, a Baptist’s prayer: “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord this promise to keep.

If I should die before I wake, don’t let girls in the pulpit, for goodness sake.”

Southern Baptist – the largest Protestant denomination in the United States – has just finished its annual convention in New Orleans and voted that while women can be CEOs of major corporations, U.S. Senators, cabinet offi…