In 2013 Marc Bertrand and I (Paul Carter) co-founded a renewal movement called CLRA (pronounced like the lady’s name “Clara”) within the CBOQ (Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec). Our goal was to call our association back to its historical values and commitments. We did this mostly through conferences, blogs and resource sharing.
However, in 2017 a line was crossed which required us to take a more direct and confrontational approach. A church in our association stated publicly that they would now accept LGBTQ2 people into positions of leadership within the congregation.