We’ve written to you in the past that First Baptist Church Orlando, a Southern Baptist megachurch in Orlando, Florida, was openly baptizing practicing homosexuals and there has been absolutely no accountability from the Southern Baptist Convention for these actions.

The Dissenter began reporting on First Baptist Church Orlando’s capitulation to gay ideology back in 2021 and I even wrote about it as far back as 2016 when the church hosted a group of homosexuals after the Pulse Nightclub shooting, allowing them to take the pulpit, and allowing another pastor to refer to the “LGBTQ community” as the “head cornerstone” of Christianity.

But, in 2021, it began when the associate pastor and former chair of the North American Mission Board (NAMB) took the stage to boast and brag how the Southern Baptist church included homosexuals, transgenders, pro-abortion activists, and every other kind of God-hater in their church and allowed them to serve.

A week later, the lead pastor, David Uth, took the stage to double down and even stated that not only would they continue doing what they are doing, but they were partnering with NAMB to plant even more churches with the same unbiblical ecclesiology.

Thanks to the research of my friend, Justin Peters, and his colleagues, the smoking gun of gay affirmation has now been found at the Florida megachurch, First Baptist Orlando.

Below are images of a man named Joe Mills who, according to his Facebook page, is happily “married” to another man named Mario as of December 2021. Below is a picture of Joe Mills and his “husband,” Mario.

Joe Mills is a member in good standing at First Baptist Church, Orlando, who was baptized by associate pastor and former North American Mission Board chairman, Danny DeArmas.

Nearly two years later, neither the Southern Baptist Convention nor any of its leaders—president, entity heads, prominent pastors, seminary professors—have mentioned one word about any of this. And Mills, who still boasts about being “married” to another man all over social media, just recently posted a picture of himself wearing an official badge and attire of First Baptist Church Orlando while bragging about his organization sending kids to church camp.

Where is the accountability from the Southern Baptist Convention credentials committee? If these same people who so desperately want to expel churches for ordaining women to the pastorate (and rightfully so) refuse to effect the same discipline on a church that’s clearly affirming homosexuality, what does that say about the leadership? Are they making an exception because of the associate pastor’s ties with the corrupt North American Mission Board? There is definitely something wrong with this picture—and I mean more than just the ones posted above.