I saw this link, saw the guest list, and saw the SBC representative on the list, and said to myself, “Gee, I wonder what they’re going to say?” I knew. I was right. What a joke. So sad. So sickening in the light of what the Southern Baptist Convention USED to stand for, and that was Christian diversity. No more. It used to be that in the SBC, you NEVER knew what you were going to get, because agencies and their leaders were allowed to speak for themselves, out of their own theology. Now, the agencies have only people who have been “theologically screened”, and are hopelessly captive to the Religious Right, so I KNEW.
I turned it off. I ‘ll listen later when I feel a little better about things. Right now, I don’t want to listen to their garbage. Link to the NPR program is below. Edgar (a United Methodist) looks like he will respond after the SBC puppet speaks.
| God and Country |
Guests:
Henry Brinton
*Pastor, Fairfax Presbyterian Church, Fairfax, Va.
Bob Edgar
*General Secretary, National Council of Churches
*Former Congressman from Pennsylvania
Richard Land
*President, Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
Bob Edgar
*General Secretary, National Council of Churches *Former Congressman from Pennsylvania
Brian Hehir
*President, Catholic Charities, Inc.
*Distinguished Professor of Ethics and International Politics, Georgetown School of Foreign Services
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