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Article: Southern Baptists seek laws making 'will of Christ' supreme.(PEOPLE & EVENTS)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the nation's largest Protestant denomination whose leadership is a bulwark of far-right fundamentalism, is ratcheting up its political operations.
The Christian Index, Georgia's state Baptist newspaper, recently carried an interesting and unusually frank report on the SBC's lobbying outpost in Washington, D.C., just four blocks from the Capitol.
"It is in this environment," says the newspaper, "that Southern Baptists have a significant presence through the ministry of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). Richard Land, president of the ERLC, visits Washington often from his primary office in Nashville ...