Church Music Director Takes Heat for Wife’s Column

Bill Thomas, the minister of music and associate pastor of First Baptist Church in Madisonville, Ky., might be resigning from his position following a recent uproar over his wife’s commentary about the Southern Baptist Convention’s approval of a resolution that expresses the denomination’s “opposition to and disappointment in the decision of the Boy Scouts of America to change its membership policy” to allow openly-homosexual members.

Thomas’ wife, who’s a humor columnist for the Messenger newspaper in Madisonville, told Savannah Oglesby, a staff writer for the publication that she had no inclination that her comments would jeopardize her husband’s position at the church.

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