Update: Division in SBC over sexual allegations policy, status of female Bishops, politics

[Alcibiades]

Wasn't the SBC moving in a (relatively) more sociopolitically moderate or agnostic direction as recently as two or three years ago?

I think there was quite a big internal struggle. Relative moderates like Russell Moore were certainly winning some victories, but they did face blowback. I haven’t been following any of this recently, so I’m not sure what the outcome of all that was.

[Alcibiades]

Wasn't the SBC moving in a (relatively) more sociopolitically moderate or agnostic direction as recently as two or three years ago?

I think there was quite a big internal struggle. Relative moderates like Russell Moore were certainly winning some victories, but they did face blowback. I haven’t been following any of this recently, so I’m not sure what the outcome of all that was.

Both sides in that dispute firmly agreed that homosexuality was a sin, however.  There never really was significant internal division among Southern Baptist leadership about these issues. 

I wasn’t referring to whether homosexuality was a sin, but broader issues which the article in OP touches on.