The Southern Baptists ordained a lesbian feminist in 1964

Then she took a job as <a href="https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE%7CA450505821&v=2.1&it=r&sid=sitemap&asid=4bc617d9" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">education director</a> 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? Addie’s own psychology remains puzzling. She never married. In writings about her, the subject just doesn’t come up. Just once, I find, in a 2004 newspaper <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/795795535" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">profile</a>, she was asked if she’d wanted to marry. She replied: “I could have married, but looking back, I’m glad I had the time to spend with my people.” That was it. <a href="https://medium.com/belover/a-woman-was-ordained-by-the-southern-baptist-convention-in-1964-91cbaf436364">Website</a>