RE: Southern Baptists are among the most liberal???

The Southern Baptist Convention a few years ago took up consideration of accepting non-repenting, openly homosexual members. They also took up all sorts of resolutions on multiculturalism and other liberal issues. I understand they had a change of leadership recently, so I guess we'll see. Now most Baptists will lecture you, ad nauseum on the minute differences between flavors of Baptist. I can never keep up with that kind of nonsense.

The Presbyterians have always been somewhat liberal, but pretty quietly so. I think their liberalism has been more along the lines of ambivalence than any open apostasy. The Moravians and Friends (Quakers) can also be quite liberal. However, I don't recall anything recently about any of those churches having leadership conflicts over doctrine.

In all fairness, sometimes just the presence of an argument over doctrine can be enough to drive people away, regardless of the content of the argument. I'm sure there is a little bit of that in the outflow of members from the Southern Baptists, but the Methodists tend to be pretty authoritarian in their leadership structure which tends to keep doctrinal differences of opinion sub rosa.