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A prominent Fort Worth church continues to struggle with how to handle photographs of gay members in a pictorial directory that’s to be part of its 125th anniversary celebrations.

Broadway Baptist Church has debated whether to include gay couples, or gay people as individuals but not as couples, or whether to omit all individual and family photos.

Members were to have voted Sunday, following morning worship. But after meeting for about an hour, they postponed any decision until deacons make a recommendation on Feb. 24.

“We will continue to discuss this issue together as a church family,” said Kathy Madeja, deacon chair, in a prepared statement. “We do not want to rush to make a decision, bur rather to continue to listen to each other and for God’s leading for our church.”

Broadway is well known in Southern Baptist circles as a moderate church, where women have a strong role in leadership. The church also has long had openly gay members.

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