Leaders of the nation's largest Protestant denomination Wednesday refused to support a resolution that would have urged the denomination to form an "exit strategy" for pulling Southern Baptist children from public schools in favor of home schools or private Christian schools. The proposal, offered by Roger Moran of Troy, Mo., and Texas author Bruce Shortt, came as many of the nation's 16.2 million Southern Baptists are concerned about how classrooms are handling subjects such as homosexuality and "intelligent design" [...] the notion that life is so complex it must have been created by a higher intelligence.
[Unclear from this article is whether the SBC is concerned that public schools are failing to condone homosexuality as found in the relationship between David and Johnathan (1 and 2 Samuel) or that they are concerned that public schools are failing to murder homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13). It's got to be one or the other that the schools are failing to do. I'd be pleased as punch if all those children went to private schools or home schools. Less tax burden for everyone, lower student/teacher ratios, parents taking back their parental responsibilities from the state, and - best of all - assurance we will have a new generation of superstitious morons to flip my hamburgers and dig my ditches. But of course the Christians don't want their superstition just for their children. They want it for all children. "We are commanded biblically to train our children in the nurture of the Lord. The public schools are no longer allowed ... to even acknowledge the God of the Bible."]
Also Wednesday, the SBC unofficially barred members who drink alcohol from serving as trustees or members of any SBC entity. The ban, part of a larger anti-alcohol resolution that was easily approved by delegates, was proposed by Jim Richards, executive director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. While stopping short of officially preventing drinkers from serving, it "urges" that no one be elected or appointed to SBC offices if they are "a user of alcohol." "Use of alcohol as a beverage can and does impede the message of Jesus Christ" that Southern Baptists are trying to spread, Richards said.
[Yeah, because it totally doesn't at all say in 1 Timothy 3:8 or 1 Timothy 5:23 or Proverbs 31:6-7 or Ecclesiastes 9:7 or Jerimiah 13:12 or Isaiah 55:1 or Isaiah 25:6 or Joel 2:19 or Joel 3:18 or Amos 9:14 or Deuteronomy 7:13 or Deuteronomy 14:25-26 or Geneis 14:18 or Genesis 27:28 or Zechariah 9:17 or Titus 3:8 or Psalms 104:15 or Numbers 6:20 or Numbers 28:7 or Judges 9:13 that we should drink alcohol. See for yourself. Either drinking alcohol impedes the message of Jesus Christ or reading the Bible is something no Christian is supposed to do.]
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