“At CBL, we believe this is a good motion and deserves support. This is not a cudgel, it’s a clock,” said Wolfe. “It gives the ERLC trustees a year to make the many changes to earn back the trust of Southern Baptists—beginning with the hard but necessary choice to change the leadership at the entity.”
Last July, ERLC’s Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees released a statement sharing that ERLC President Brent Leatherwood had been removed. Within hours, the board’s statement was retracted.
The ERLC also announced that Executive Committee Chair Kevin Smith acted alone in Leatherwood’s removal and that Smith had resigned.
, Pastor Willy Rice wasted no time making a motion to abolish the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) during the opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) annual meeting.){kind=link}