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DIED. BOBBY FRANK CHERRY, 74, former Ku Klux Klan member convicted in 2002 for the deadly 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.; of cancer; at the Kilby Correctional Facility near Montgomery. The attack, which followed the desegregation of Birmingham's schools and for which two of Cherry's associates were also convicted, killed four black girls...
...Wellington-based academic, who's spent a decade tracing the links between religion and politics in Australia, notes that on election night new Liberal M.P. Michael Ferguson told a TV interviewer "that he loved the Lord. I can't really imagine that happening in any previous election." Says Baptist minister Tim Costello, "The prevailing wisdom that was, 'Don't talk about your faith, they'll think you're a religious fanatic,' is over...
...1960s, says Bill Muehlenberg, vice president of the Australian Family Association. In that rebellious era, "the importance of authority, family, religion were all chucked out in favor of the idea that God is dead, there are no values, we can all create our own right and wrong," says the Baptist theologian. "We've had a good 40 years of that social experiment, and by every indicator - crime, suicide, pornography, drug abuse - it looks like an experiment that's failed...
Kerry, like many other Democrats, never truly understood this reality. He did not bother to visit the Southern Baptist Convention or any other fundamentalist group to say, Look, we're going to disagree on some issues, but there are lots of things we have in common, and I want to hear your point of view. He did not take a "listening tour" through rural Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; he simply ignored the South. When Whoopi Goldberg lewdly compared the President to a body part in her southern hemisphere, Kerrywho was in the audiencecame onstage and said entertainers like Goldberg represented...
...director of the political arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, Richard Land has enjoyed a long and close relationship with the born-again Bush. And when the President was forming his position on stem-cell research, Land helped persuade Bush to prohibit new embryos from being used in the research. "It was a very involved and lengthy process," says Land. "And I was very pleased with the outcome...