The Southern Baptists ordained a lesbian feminist in 1964

<p>Then she took a job as&nbsp;<a href="https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&amp;u=googlescholar&amp;id=GALE%7CA450505821&amp;v=2.1&amp;it=r&amp;sid=sitemap&amp;asid=4bc617d9" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">education director</a>&nbsp;for a Baptist church, then worked as a dean of women at a Baptist college in West Virginia. She also taught psychology classes. Strange for a Southern Baptist woman?</p> <p>Addie&rsquo;s own psychology remains puzzling. She never married. In writings about her, the subject just doesn&rsquo;t come up. Just once, I find, in a 2004 newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/795795535" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">profile</a>, she was asked if she&rsquo;d wanted to marry.</p> <p>She replied: &ldquo;I could have married, but looking back, I&rsquo;m glad I had the time to spend with my people.&rdquo; That was it.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/belover/a-woman-was-ordained-by-the-southern-baptist-convention-in-1964-91cbaf436364"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>