Yesterday, the Southern Baptist Convention hurriedly passed a resolution condemning white supremacy and the alt-right after a major backlash against the organization occurred when their leadership scuttled an initial and more strongly worded resolution against those ideologies.
At a news conference, Barrett Duke, a Southern Baptist leader who had led a committee that decided
which resolutions should be considered for a vote, said the resolution
as originally written contained inflammatory and broad language
“potentially implicating” conservatives who do not support the
“alt-right” movement.
Well Barrett, that's the point isn't it? Conservatives are not really Christians. To paraphrase George Carlin, they are just a group of people who meet up on Sundays to compare clothes and cars.
If a resolution so palpably right actually implicates your members, then surely you look at them with questions, not at the language of the statement that exposed them?
Hands up all those who were surprised by the SBC's initial stance.
My hand is down.
