Word: baptists
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...days afterward. Some thought he had gone too far on the politics and gore, though even some of the town's most conservative citizens were sympathetic. "Coming back from a place like that, everybody understands," says Tim Clark, music and outreach minister at the mayor's church, Bradford Baptist. Citizens State Bank officer Carol Cagle, whose grandson Richard Farmer served with Bunn in Iraq, says she had "mixed emotions" about the mayor's speech. "He was emotional, but Richard is having problems too," she says, reluctant to share more with an outsider...
...been the kind of dedicated activist the G.O.P. has to thank for much of its current dominance. Since that day in 1992, Scarborough, 55, has believed that "Christians have a moral responsibility in this country to be involved in politics." For most of the past decade, the outspoken Baptist minister from Texas has used his pulpit to help elect conservative judges and politicians. Along the way, his organization, Vision America, has recruited 3,000 to 4,000 "patriot pastors" in parts of the South and Midwest to help get out the evangelical-Christian vote...
Others lament that they are lumped with fundamentalist Christian groups--whether or not they agree with them. Protesters from Old Paths Baptist Church in Campbellsburg, Ind., 50 miles from Indiana's Bloomington campus, have come to the school weekly, toting posters of aborted fetuses and shouting anti-gay slogans. A picketer spotted Greek InterVarsity member Samantha Schein wearing an Alpha Phi sorority sweat shirt and told her that she lived in a "house of sin." "I said, 'Can't you just be quiet?'" says Schein. "Other students will just assume most Christians are like that...
...biggest problem with the explosion of religion into American politics is that it has been extraordinarily one-sided. The religious right has come to hold a near-hegemony in the public mind when it comes to religion. Just the mention of faith conjures up images of fiery, conservative Southern Baptist preachers like Richard Land and right-wing politicians like Tom DeLay. In 2005, the Left has no captivating, visible, and intellectually substantive religious leadership, and it is suffering immensely because...
...respect that not all Christians think like me, and that the groups in question—the Alliance Defense Fund, Focus on the Family, and the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, all behind the Day of Truth—are essentially fundamentalist or Biblical literalist groups. And there are really no two ways about it: there are a myriad of literal references to the sinfulness of homosexuality in the Bible...