FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) -- Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
has indicated in a second letter that it intends to pursue its claim to
office space currently used by Tarrant Baptist Association, apparently
because the association retains as a member a church that was kicked out
of the Southern Baptist Convention for its acceptance of gays.
Al Meredith, moderator of Tarrant Baptist Association, told the Baptist Standard
that he received a letter Jan. 18 indicating seminary officials still
want the association out of the office building it has long occupied on
the edge of the seminary campus in Fort Worth, Texas.
The
seminary previously sent a registered letter Dec. 12 giving the
association six months to vacate the offices under terms of a 1997
affiliation agreement requiring the two organizations be in "theological
harmony." Meredith said in a letter to associational leaders that the
seminary's December letter said the association has one or more member
churches that do not act in accordance with an article in the Baptist Faith and Message that declares homosexuality immoral.
