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Southern Baptists Want to Shrink First Amendment Protections
As messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention gather in Orlando, Florida, this week, they will debate several significant issues, including an effort to further restrict women from serving in ministry or even talking publicly about Scripture. And those gathered at the annual convention of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination will also consider several resolutions through which to sound off on key issues like assisted suicide, antisemitism, and immigration. But it’s the proposed resolution on “the 250th anniversary of the United States” that caught my eye for its rhetorical sleight of hand.
At first glance, the resolution seems like a good effort to particularly highlight “the Baptist contribution to religious liberty” during this year’s Semiquincentennial celebrations. It’s much milder in its “God and country” mixing than I expected, acknowledges the nation has often been wrong (including with slavery), and insists that we should protect “religious liberty for all people.”
But there’s a sneaky way the First Amendment’s religious clauses are summarized: “which guarantees the free exercise of religion and prohibits the establishment of a state church.” While it correctly uses the Constitutional language for protecting “the free exercise” of religion, it misquotes the other clause. The First Amendment prohibits “an establishment of religion,” but the resolution instead says it stops “the establishment of a state church.” That’s not the same thing.
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Saturday, June 09, 2018
#MeToo goes to church: Southern Baptists face a reckoning over treatment of women
"Many women have experienced horrific abuses within the power structures of our Christian world," Beth Moore, an evangelical teacher, wrote in a letter.
by Alex Johnson / Jun.08.2018 / 4:35 AM ET / Updated Jun.08.2018 / 1:26 PM ET
People pray during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention on June 14, 2016, in St. Louis.
Jeff Roberson / AP file
The Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest evangelical denomination, is headed for a showdown over its treatment of women that could not only have far-reaching ramifications for the church but also influence the broader secular #MeToo movement.
At its annual meeting next week in Dallas, delegates called "messengers" will decide whether to approve a resolution acknowledging that, throughout the church's history, male leaders and members of the church "wronged women, abused women, silenced women, objectified women."
"The #MeToo moment has come to American evangelicals," Albert Mohler, president of the flagship Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote last month. "And I am called to deal with it as a Christian, as a minister of the Gospel, as a seminary and college president, and as a public leader."
The convention is meeting in the wake of several widely publicized scandals in which prominent Southern Baptist leaders have been accused of or have admitted inappropriate behavior toward women.
"Many women have experienced horrific abuses within the power structures of our Christian world," Beth Moore, a prominent evangelical teacher in Houston, wrote in an open letter last month.
Most recently, the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in nearby Fort Worth fired Paige Patterson, a pre-eminent figure in the denomination's conservative resurgence in recent decades, who had been its president since 2003.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Southern Baptist leaders tout unity amid rift that could cost church millions
Published March 15, 2017
FoxNews.com
Russell Moore on "Fox and Friends."
A show of unity this week by leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) puts a happy, but perhaps temporary, face on a struggle over the direction of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
The head of the 15-million-member evangelical denomination’s public policy arm, Russell Moore, has criticized President Trump and – most provocatively – SBC leaders who openly support him.
Moore, who heads the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and Frank Page, president of the SBC’s executive committee, made peace at a Monday meeting in Nashville to tamp down rumors of a split between the two and speculation that the tie that binds the massive denomination together is fraying.
MEGACHURCH SEES 'PHENOMENAL' GROWTH IN ITS HISPANIC CONGREGATION
While those ties may not be fraying, they have been strained. Moore has accused evangelical leaders who supported Trump of “normalizing an awful candidate,” according to published reports. Further, Moore said that Southern Baptist leaders who attended a meeting at Trump Tower last year had “drunk the Kool-Aid.”
FoxNews.com
Russell Moore on "Fox and Friends."
A show of unity this week by leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) puts a happy, but perhaps temporary, face on a struggle over the direction of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
The head of the 15-million-member evangelical denomination’s public policy arm, Russell Moore, has criticized President Trump and – most provocatively – SBC leaders who openly support him.
Moore, who heads the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and Frank Page, president of the SBC’s executive committee, made peace at a Monday meeting in Nashville to tamp down rumors of a split between the two and speculation that the tie that binds the massive denomination together is fraying.
MEGACHURCH SEES 'PHENOMENAL' GROWTH IN ITS HISPANIC CONGREGATION
While those ties may not be fraying, they have been strained. Moore has accused evangelical leaders who supported Trump of “normalizing an awful candidate,” according to published reports. Further, Moore said that Southern Baptist leaders who attended a meeting at Trump Tower last year had “drunk the Kool-Aid.”
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Assange Timed WikiLeaks Release of Democratic Emails to Harm Hillary Clinton
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
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WASHINGTON — Six weeks before the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks published an archive of hacked Democratic National Committee emails ahead of the Democratic convention, the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, foreshadowed the release — and made it clear that he hoped to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the presidency.
Mr. Assange’s remarks in a June 12 interviewunderscored that for all the drama of the discord that the disclosures have sown among supporters of Bernie Sanders — and of the unproven speculation that the Russian government provided the hacked data to WikiLeaks in order to help Donald J. Trump — the disclosures are also the latest chapter in the long-running tale of Mr. Assange’s battles with the Obama administration.
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In the interview, Mr. Assange told a British television host, Robert Peston of the ITV network, that his organization had obtained “emails related to Hillary Clinton which are pending publication,” which he pronounced “great.” He also suggested that he not only opposed her candidacy on policy grounds, but also saw her as a personal foe.
At one point, Mr. Peston said: “Plainly, what you are saying, what you are publishing, hurts Hillary Clinton. Would you prefer Trump to be president?”
Mr. Assange replied that what Mr. Trump would do as president was “completely unpredictable.” By contrast, he thought it was predictable that Mrs. Clinton would wield power in two ways he found problematic.
First, citing his “personal perspective,” Mr. Assange accused Mrs. Clinton of having been among those pushing to indict him after WikiLeaks disseminated a quarter of a million diplomatic cables during her tenure as secretary of state.
“We do see her as a bit of a problem for freedom of the press more generally,” Mr. Assange said.
(The cables, along with archives of military documents, were leaked by Pvt. Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence. WikiLeaks also provided the documents to news outlets, including The New York Times. Despite a criminal investigation into Mr. Assange, he has not been charged; the status of that investigation is murky.)
In addition, Mr. Assange criticized Mrs. Clinton for pushing to intervene in Libya in 2011 when Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was cracking down on Arab Spring protesters; he said that the result of the NATO air war was Libya’s collapse into anarchy, enabling the Islamic State to flourish.
“She has a long history of being a liberal war hawk, and we presume she is going to proceed” with that approach if elected president, he said.
In February, Mr. Assange said in an essay that a vote for Mrs. Clinton to become president amounted to “a vote for endless, stupid war.”
Efforts to reach Mr. Assange for comment were unsuccessful, and a Clinton campaign spokesman did not respond to an inquiry. In November 2010, when WikiLeaks and its news media partners began publishing the cables, Mrs. Clinton strongly condemned it.
“In addition to endangering particular individuals, disclosures like these tear at the fabric of the proper function of responsible government,” she said then.
Mr. Assange’s remarks last month received only scattered attention, in part because in the interview Mr. Peston appeared to mistakenly assume that WikiLeaks had obtained still-undisclosed emails from the private server Mrs. Clinton had used while secretary of state and kept cutting Mr. Assange off to ask about it.
But it now seems clearer that Mr. Assange was trying to talk about the Democratic National Committee emails.
(The confusion stemmed in part because Mr. Assange said in the interview that WikiLeaks had “published” her State Department emails. But it made a copy of the ones the department posted on its website and made them easier to search.)
Mr. Assange spoke from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has been holed up for four years. Sweden is seeking his extradition for an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations; his supporters have expressed fear that if he is arrested, he could be sent to the United States and prosecuted for publishing leaked documents.
After the Democratic chairwoman, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned Monday when Sanders supporters reacted angrily to revelations in the emails that party officials had privately rooted for Mrs. Clinton to win the presidential nomination, Mr. Assange told the news program “Democracy Now!” that he timed their release to coincide with the Democratic convention.
“Often it’s the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it,” he said. “But in this case, we knew, because of the pending D.N.C., because of the degree of interest in the U.S. election, we didn’t need to establish partnerships with The New York Times or The Washington Post.”
Asked on that program whether the Russian government gave him the emails, Mr. Assange said he never reveals sources but also that “no one knows who our source is.” He also said the Democratic National Committee might have been hacked on multiple occasions by different intruders.
WASHINGTON — Six weeks before the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks published an archive of hacked Democratic National Committee emails ahead of the Democratic convention, the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, foreshadowed the release — and made it clear that he hoped to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the presidency.
Mr. Assange’s remarks in a June 12 interviewunderscored that for all the drama of the discord that the disclosures have sown among supporters of Bernie Sanders — and of the unproven speculation that the Russian government provided the hacked data to WikiLeaks in order to help Donald J. Trump — the disclosures are also the latest chapter in the long-running tale of Mr. Assange’s battles with the Obama administration.
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In the interview, Mr. Assange told a British television host, Robert Peston of the ITV network, that his organization had obtained “emails related to Hillary Clinton which are pending publication,” which he pronounced “great.” He also suggested that he not only opposed her candidacy on policy grounds, but also saw her as a personal foe.
At one point, Mr. Peston said: “Plainly, what you are saying, what you are publishing, hurts Hillary Clinton. Would you prefer Trump to be president?”
Mr. Assange replied that what Mr. Trump would do as president was “completely unpredictable.” By contrast, he thought it was predictable that Mrs. Clinton would wield power in two ways he found problematic.
First, citing his “personal perspective,” Mr. Assange accused Mrs. Clinton of having been among those pushing to indict him after WikiLeaks disseminated a quarter of a million diplomatic cables during her tenure as secretary of state.
“We do see her as a bit of a problem for freedom of the press more generally,” Mr. Assange said.
(The cables, along with archives of military documents, were leaked by Pvt. Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence. WikiLeaks also provided the documents to news outlets, including The New York Times. Despite a criminal investigation into Mr. Assange, he has not been charged; the status of that investigation is murky.)
In addition, Mr. Assange criticized Mrs. Clinton for pushing to intervene in Libya in 2011 when Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was cracking down on Arab Spring protesters; he said that the result of the NATO air war was Libya’s collapse into anarchy, enabling the Islamic State to flourish.
“She has a long history of being a liberal war hawk, and we presume she is going to proceed” with that approach if elected president, he said.
In February, Mr. Assange said in an essay that a vote for Mrs. Clinton to become president amounted to “a vote for endless, stupid war.”
Efforts to reach Mr. Assange for comment were unsuccessful, and a Clinton campaign spokesman did not respond to an inquiry. In November 2010, when WikiLeaks and its news media partners began publishing the cables, Mrs. Clinton strongly condemned it.
“In addition to endangering particular individuals, disclosures like these tear at the fabric of the proper function of responsible government,” she said then.
Mr. Assange’s remarks last month received only scattered attention, in part because in the interview Mr. Peston appeared to mistakenly assume that WikiLeaks had obtained still-undisclosed emails from the private server Mrs. Clinton had used while secretary of state and kept cutting Mr. Assange off to ask about it.
But it now seems clearer that Mr. Assange was trying to talk about the Democratic National Committee emails.
(The confusion stemmed in part because Mr. Assange said in the interview that WikiLeaks had “published” her State Department emails. But it made a copy of the ones the department posted on its website and made them easier to search.)
Mr. Assange spoke from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has been holed up for four years. Sweden is seeking his extradition for an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations; his supporters have expressed fear that if he is arrested, he could be sent to the United States and prosecuted for publishing leaked documents.
After the Democratic chairwoman, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned Monday when Sanders supporters reacted angrily to revelations in the emails that party officials had privately rooted for Mrs. Clinton to win the presidential nomination, Mr. Assange told the news program “Democracy Now!” that he timed their release to coincide with the Democratic convention.
“Often it’s the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it,” he said. “But in this case, we knew, because of the pending D.N.C., because of the degree of interest in the U.S. election, we didn’t need to establish partnerships with The New York Times or The Washington Post.”
Asked on that program whether the Russian government gave him the emails, Mr. Assange said he never reveals sources but also that “no one knows who our source is.” He also said the Democratic National Committee might have been hacked on multiple occasions by different intruders.
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Monday, July 25, 2016
PHOTOS: DNC erects four-mile eight-foot tall fence around Philly convention site
JULY 24, 2016
BY KYLE OLSON
To the Democratic National Committee elites, keeping average Americans away from their convention is a good idea, while protecting the southern border from intruding terrorists, rapists and murderers is a bad one.
The DNC has erected a four-mile fence around its convention site at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. (Isn’t it ironic they’re doing so much to protect a site named after a bank?)
The fence, which appears to be about 8 feet tall, is intended to keep out any individuals with whom Democratic Party leaders, delegates and other liberal elites would rather not mingle.
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Fox 29’s Steve Keeley shared a picture of a portion of the fence he said was erected near the intersection of Pattison and Broad.
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention in Philadelphia
Published on Aug 5, 2015
The Knights of Columbus annual Supreme Convention is on in Philadelphia. We bring you the latest on what's been happening at this gathering of Knights from around the world.
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Friday, July 03, 2015
Religious convention draws thousands to downtown SA
Visitors from 200 countries flock to Seventh-Day Adventist Church convention
POSTED YESTERDAY, 6:10 PM
By Myra Arthur
Anchor/Reporter
SAN ANTONIO - Up to 70,000 people are expected to visit the Alamo City from July 2-11 for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church General Convention Session.
The event will draw believers from 200 countries to discuss the business of the church and gather as a faith community.
“I can’t believe it! It looks like an Adventist town,” said Nokutla Dlodlo, from Liverpool, England. “Everywhere you see the banners of the Adventist Church. I really feel at home here.”
"Our great reputation is just going to get even greater with much more knowledge of the wonderful hospitality of San Antonio," Dave Peterson, executive vice president of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
Costin Jordache, vice president for communication of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, said San Antonio was chosen to host the convention because of its history, culture and logistics.
“Which are to have a large coliseum type environment where you can seat 70,000 and a convention center very nearby and a whole lot of hotel rooms,” said Jordache.
San Antonio police are providing security for the event and patrolling the River Walk and downtown areas. Traffic officers are also helping direct the increase in traffic.
“I think that this convention will send a message to others that we are the place to come,” said Peterson. “The new convention center is going to improve that even more."
“Walking down, I was thinking 'It's going to be like that in heaven!' Seeing all these lovely faces, all these different people! I think its a taste of what’s to come,” said Dlodlo.
The Alamodome will host the roughly 70,000 attendees for the convention meetings. The convention lasts through July 11.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015
Historic convention expected to pump more than $40 million into San Antonio economy
Jun 30, 2015, 4:30pm CDT
San Antonio Business Journal
FILE PHOTO / SAN ANTONIO BUSINESS JOURNAL
San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau Executive Director Casandra Matej says it took a…more
San Antonio is bracing for what local leaders anticipate will be the largest and longest convention held in this city.
Approximately 65,000 people are expected to converge on San Antonio for the 60th Quinquennial General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist. San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau officials said the economic impact from the citywide 10-day conference could approach $41 million.
The convention should be a good test for the San Antonio International Airport, which has undergone significant expansion and improvements over the last several years. Airport officials are bracing for what they anticipate will be an “extraordinary number of passengers” departing the city on July 12 and 13 and are asking individuals to arrive at least two hours before takeoff.
“Hosting a conference of this size takes years of preparation and the help of our many partners, from hotels to restaurants and everything in between,” said SACVB Executive Director Casandra Matej.
The Seventh-day Adventist conference should fill plenty of area hotel rooms.
“This is nothing short of spectacular for the hotel industry,” said John Clamp, executive director of the San Antonio Hotel & Lodging Association, about the historic convention.
There could be some challenges. Work on theHenry B. Gonzalez Convention Center expansion continues, and that should have some impact on nearby roadways and pedestrian areas. However, Clamp said the Seventh-day Adventist conference will give San Antonio an opportunity to showcase its commitment to convention center infrastructure to a larger group which could look to make a return trip to the Alamo City.
The Seventh-day Adventist conference should fill plenty of area hotel rooms.
“This is nothing short of spectacular for the hotel industry,” said John Clamp, executive director of the San Antonio Hotel & Lodging Association, about the historic convention.
There could be some challenges. Work on theHenry B. Gonzalez Convention Center expansion continues, and that should have some impact on nearby roadways and pedestrian areas. However, Clamp said the Seventh-day Adventist conference will give San Antonio an opportunity to showcase its commitment to convention center infrastructure to a larger group which could look to make a return trip to the Alamo City.
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Saturday, June 21, 2014
National Baptist convention draws 40,000 to Dallas, including civil rights leader Jesse Jackson
By Stephanie Embree
sembree@dallasnews.com
2:42 pm on June 18, 2014 | Permalink
The convention center in downtown Dallas has become home to 40,000 people in town for the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education.
Church leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, will join Baptists from all 50 states, the Caribbean islands, Germany and Africa for one of the largest African-American meetings this year.
“We are a Christian body, and our overall objective is to follow the biblical direction and make disciples,” said the Rev. George W. Waddles Sr., president of the National Baptist Congress.
Through Saturday, members can attend over 300 morning classes dealing with topics such as Christian doctrine and how to be an effective deacon. In the afternoons, there are youth or children rallies and lectures from leaders who will address issues facing church members.
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2:42 pm on June 18, 2014 | Permalink
The Rev. George W. Waddles Sr. is president of the Congress.
The convention center in downtown Dallas has become home to 40,000 people in town for the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education.
Church leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, will join Baptists from all 50 states, the Caribbean islands, Germany and Africa for one of the largest African-American meetings this year.
“We are a Christian body, and our overall objective is to follow the biblical direction and make disciples,” said the Rev. George W. Waddles Sr., president of the National Baptist Congress.
Through Saturday, members can attend over 300 morning classes dealing with topics such as Christian doctrine and how to be an effective deacon. In the afternoons, there are youth or children rallies and lectures from leaders who will address issues facing church members.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson will speak tonight. (AP photo)
Waddles said the convention aims to teach church leaders and members how to “be more faithful to the call of Christ,” and how to build a family and community on a foundation of faith.
Jackson, the civil rights leader who worked with Martin Luther King Jr., is speaking at a scholarship banquet where college students will be presented with the Dream Makers Scholarship. The program, a partnership with Office Depot, has distributed over $300,000 in the last four years.
The National Baptist Congress, which represents around 7,000 churches in the U.S. and abroad, chose to hold its convention in Dallas after being invited by local reverends. Waddles said that Dallas has been more welcoming than cities they’ve visited in the past.
“There are two things I want the citizens of Dallas to know,” he said. “The first is that we are a diverse group. There’s no one mold that fits us except that we believe in the Lord. The second is that we come as witnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ. We don’t come to offend anybody or shove it down their throats.”
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Southern Baptist Resolution (in 1936) on 'The Christian Sabbath'
SBC Resolutions
RESOLUTION ON THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH
May 1936
1. That we renew our efforts to preserve the Christian sabbath and urge our people everywhere to abstain from purely secular and worldly engagements on the Lord's day.
2. That we especially deplore the wide use of the radio for advertising and for flippant jazz entertainment on the Lord's day, and we would favor legislation to prevent all Sunday advertising over the radio and all cheap vaudeville programs on Sunday.
St. Louis, Missouri
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Southern Baptists denounce Scouts for allowing gay members
A story from the 'the stones cry out' department:
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Southern Baptists pass Resolution 6 during the annual Southern Baptist Convention.
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Published: June 13, 2013 at 7:17 AMBy VERONICA LINARES, UPI.com
Southern Baptists passed a resolution Wednesday denouncing the Boy Scouts of America for allowing openly gay youth.
Resolution 6 was passed during The Southern Baptist Convention which is currently holding its annual meeting in Houston, TX.
Only one man reportedly opposed the bill claiming that scouts already opposed sexual activity among the boys and adding that children who say they're gay need to be counseled and not cast out.
"I don't think we'd kick such a boy out of our Sunday schools," Charlie Dale, a representative from Indian Springs First Baptist Church in Alabama said. "I don't think we should hold the Boy Scouts to a standard we would not put on our churches. Such a boy needs our love. Let's show them what real Biblical manhood is about and love them."
Dale allegedly received some applause by the audience, but they crowd was more excited to cheer for speakers who supported the resolution and those who asked for even stricter rules.
"Resolution 6 has passed," Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter, Jr. said. "Overwhelmingly."
The Southern Baptist Convention is an international organizing body for Southern Baptist Churches. Boy Scouts of America ranks Baptist sixth for the number of Scouts sponsored
Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Blog/2013/06/13/Southern-Baptists-denounce-Scouts-for-allowing-gay-members/4361371122267/#ixzz2W6l0rjNt
Top News
Southern Baptists pass Resolution 6 during the annual Southern Baptist Convention.
mk/bg/Bill Greenblatt UPI
License photo
Published: June 13, 2013 at 7:17 AMBy VERONICA LINARES, UPI.com
Southern Baptists passed a resolution Wednesday denouncing the Boy Scouts of America for allowing openly gay youth.
Resolution 6 was passed during The Southern Baptist Convention which is currently holding its annual meeting in Houston, TX.
Only one man reportedly opposed the bill claiming that scouts already opposed sexual activity among the boys and adding that children who say they're gay need to be counseled and not cast out.
"I don't think we'd kick such a boy out of our Sunday schools," Charlie Dale, a representative from Indian Springs First Baptist Church in Alabama said. "I don't think we should hold the Boy Scouts to a standard we would not put on our churches. Such a boy needs our love. Let's show them what real Biblical manhood is about and love them."
Dale allegedly received some applause by the audience, but they crowd was more excited to cheer for speakers who supported the resolution and those who asked for even stricter rules.
"Resolution 6 has passed," Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter, Jr. said. "Overwhelmingly."
The Southern Baptist Convention is an international organizing body for Southern Baptist Churches. Boy Scouts of America ranks Baptist sixth for the number of Scouts sponsored
Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Blog/2013/06/13/Southern-Baptists-denounce-Scouts-for-allowing-gay-members/4361371122267/#ixzz2W6l0rjNt
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Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Democrats Unveil Platform Backing Gay Marriage, Abortion
Tuesday, 04 Sep 2012 06:24 AM
Democrats have unveiled a party platform at their national convention that echoes President Barack Obama's call for higher taxes on wealthier Americans while backing same-sex marriage and abortion rights.
Delegates will officially adopt the platform on Tuesday.
The document reflects the president's argument that his work is unfinished, saying there is more to do and calling on Democrats, independents and some Republican to come together again and continue what has been started.
The platform says the economy is growing again, al-Qaida is weaker "than at any point since 9/11" and that the manufacturing sector is growing.
The document backs same-sex marriage and abortion rights. The Republican platform, approved last week, would ban all abortions and gay marriage.
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Democrats have unveiled a party platform at their national convention that echoes President Barack Obama's call for higher taxes on wealthier Americans while backing same-sex marriage and abortion rights.
Delegates will officially adopt the platform on Tuesday.
The document reflects the president's argument that his work is unfinished, saying there is more to do and calling on Democrats, independents and some Republican to come together again and continue what has been started.
The platform says the economy is growing again, al-Qaida is weaker "than at any point since 9/11" and that the manufacturing sector is growing.
The document backs same-sex marriage and abortion rights. The Republican platform, approved last week, would ban all abortions and gay marriage.
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Romney: Cardinal Dolan to Offer Convention Prayer
Wednesday, 22 Aug 2012 06:02 PM
Cardinal Timothy Dolan will give the benediction at the Republican National Convention the night Mitt Romney accepts the presidential nomination.
Romney announced the news in an interview with "The World Over Live" show on the EWTN Catholic network.
Dolan leads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. He's also president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The archdiocese is one of more than 40 Catholic groups around the country suing President Barack Obama over his mandate that employers provide health insurance that covers birth control. The Obama administration says the coverage is an important preventive health service for women.
The EWTN interview with Romney will air at 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday. The GOP convention is scheduled to start Monday in Tampa, Fla.
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