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Southern Baptist leader: Liberals ‘ostracized’ the KKK and homophobes will be next
Civil rights advocates have pushed most racists into the shadows and now a leader at the Southern Baptist Convention is worried that that the LGBT movement could even force homophobes to be “ostracized to the level of being Ku Klux Klansmen.” During a Tuesday interview with the Heritage Foundation’s Istook…
Southern Baptist leader: Gay ban is ‘the heart and soul of scouting’
Dr. Richard Land, who is in charge of addressing social, moral, and ethical concerns as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, says that dropping the ban on gay members and LGBT leaders will be a “catastrophe” for the Boy Scouts of America because excluding homosexuals…
House Republicans: Bible doesn’t mean we need to care about foreigners
Shakespeare once wrote that “the devil can cite scripture for his purpose,” but it appears that some hardcore anti-immigration members of Congress can do the same. At a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention testified in favor of comprehensive immigration reform…
Miss California jumps the shark
Just peruse these headlines… * Miss California, Carrie Prejean, Signs With Top Christian Publicity Firm. The same firm that represents serial lying megachurch pastor Rick Warren, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. * Miss California emerges as ‘opposite marriage’ spokeswoman. She’s going to make an appearance…
Southern Baptist bookstore chain yanks magazine with female pastors on cover
“God’s assignment is that no souls are lost and all are saved,” Bennett said. “Gender is not how God sees it. We are about winning souls, period.” – Pastor Tamara Bennett of California, in Gospel Today magazine Not if you have a vajayjay, says the Southern Baptist Convention. The more…
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