FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Ongoing conflict in Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, has intensified, with 162 church members petitioning the congregation's deacon board for a meeting to vote on terminating senior minister Brett Younger.
Broadway members found themselves divided last November over the inclusion of homosexual couples in a pictorial directory being prepared as part of the church's 125th anniversary celebration. The project was put on hold and on Feb. 11 the deacons recommended eliminating family photos and focusing the directory only on church groups and ministries.
On Sunday, Feb. 10, however, a group calling itself "Friends for the Future of Broadway" submitted their petition calling for a termination vote on Younger, who has led the congregation since April 2001....
