Associated Press file
Jim Conrad, pastor of Towne View Baptist Church, looks at a copy of a letter from the Southern Baptist Convention’s credentials committee, in Kennesaw, Ga., on Feb. 18. During an SBC meeting in late February, its executive committee ousted the church because it accepted LGBTQ people into its congregation. The public policy arm of the SBC, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, calls the Equality Act that would extend federal civil rights protections to LGBTQ people, “the most significant threat to religious liberty ever considered in the United States Congress.”