“Narrow Complementarian” CBMW Director Votes Against the Abolition of Human Abortion

Just yesterday I wrote about the SBC’s spiral into leftism was a predictable outcome of the Southern Baptist embrace of that Christian form of feminism, I.E. complementarianism. There are other reasons why this has happened, but the point is that this 21st convention of the SBC is revealing just how deep the cancer had spread.

Thanks to men like William (Bill) Ascol, we know that the problem was even worse than we thought. He proposed a resolution that would call for Southern Baptists everywhere in every capacity to abolish human abortion in every form, no exceptions, no if’s, and’s, or but’s (You can find the full-text for this resolution in this bulletin on page 10). He garnered enough support at #SBC21 that the resolution had to be voted on, which tells you there is a decent number of Godly Christian church leaders who wanted this resolution passed. Unfortunately, it was not passed, and guess who voted against it?

This guy:

Denny Burk, a Southern Baptist and director of the Council of Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, voted against this resolution. He even announced that he would do so.

The biggest reason to reject this resolution is that it allows for no exceptions for the life of the mother. The mainstream pro-life position has always been that it is ethically sound to try and save the life of the mother whenever it is at stake. E.g., ectopic pregnancies.

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— Denny Burk (@DennyBurk) June 16, 2021

This man voted against a resolution that would exhort all Southern Baptists everywhere to do whatever they could to abolish abortion, and to not allow exceptions to this rule to prevent them from doing so. Enough Southern Baptists recognize this is a dead-end approach to abolishing abortion and want their brothers and sisters to forsake it in favor of complete, no-holds-barred abolition. Denny Burk fought against this resolution for that exact reason. There must, absolutely MUST be allowances made for abortion in exceptional cases.

This is where the so-called biblical manhood part is utterly absent in the CBMW’s director. Denny should have the manly courage and bravery to call for Southern Baptists to fight with all their might to end abortion. No rational reason can be given to keep abortion legal purely because a few women with ectopic pregnancies may die if they can’t have one. As far as saving lives goes, that’s a pretty darn good trade compared to the approximately 1 million+ abortions that occur every year. A few adult women dying for lack of exceptions in our nation’s laws shouldn’t concern us if it means saving over a million other lives. A real man of God should be mentally prepared to dismiss such feminist-pandering concerns without a second-thought.

Here we see one of the most glaring examples proving that complementarianism is Christian-feminism. Denny Burk is the director of the organization that coined the very term, and what do you know? He voted against abolishing abortion. He also joined the feminist feeding frenzy on Paige Patterson back in 2018. His own organization created the Statement On Abuse that makes it impossible for any Christian man to do or say anything negative towards his wife.

We believe abuse can be defined as any act or failure to act resulting in imminent risk, serious injury, death, physical or emotional or sexual harm, or exploitation of another person.

We condemn all forms of physical, sexual and/or verbal abuse.

https://cbmw.org/about/statement-on-abuse/

You might wonder, “How many ways can a complementarian act like a feminist before we can formally classify him as a Christian feminist?” That’s a good question. Maybe it’s time Christians everywhere just call complementarianism what it is- Christian feminism. Just don’t try to pass a resolution stating as much at #SBC22, since you can be sure that the director of the CBMW himself will be ready and waiting to vote against it.