Carter, Clinton announce Baptist meeting as counter to conservative Southern Baptists

[DeclinetoState]

KFDA (http://www.newschannel10.com/global/story.asp?s=5916910)

ATLANTA Plans are in the works for a major meeting for Baptists distancing themselves from conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention.

Former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton joined the leaders of about 40 Baptist groups to make the announcement today at the Carter Center in Atlanta. The meeting, scheduled for next year, is aimed at improving the public image of Baptists and broadening their agenda on social issues such as poverty, racial conflict and health care.In other words, to allow people who are pro-gay marriage, pro-"choice," etc., to portray themselves as "Southern Baptists"--or at least Baptists.

Will Fred Phelps protest?

[d'urville]

Well, that's an al-AP article, but Clinton and Carter don't have to worry about distancing themselves from the SBC, those two liberals are miles apart from sola scriptura, there's no RvW in the Bible.

Carter left the convention in 2000, but stresses that Southern Baptists are invited to attend the meeting. He says the goal is to demonstrate a "common commitment" to the goals of Jesus Christ.

No one from the SBC was invited to the announcement today. Carter lost this intra-Baptist battle years ago, he'll have to console himself with the CBF. All believers have priesthood in most Baptist churches and maintain the Bible is the only source of God's Truth, un-Carteresque (and un-Clintonesque).

Morris H. Chapman, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, said that Carter’s concerns about negative perceptions of Baptists ring hollow.

“He has been one of the most vocal critics of Southern Baptists, using ‘fundamentalist’ as a pejorative and drawing a caustic comparison between Ayatollah Khomeini’s rise to power in Iran and the resurgence of conservative leadership being elected in the SBC,” Chapman wrote to Baptist Press.

Chapman also disputed Carter’s and Clinton’s notion about a negative perception of Baptists.



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The SBC ought to keep trying to distance themselves from Carter and Clinton, not the other way around.

[Patriot Heart]

Why don't Carter and Clinton just become Episcopalians?

[Lubbock]

This battle in the SBC has been going on for years.

Carter is not a Southern Baptist. He's the furtherest thing from a Southern Baptist that I could ever imagine.

The true Southern Baptists will hold the line on the likes of Carter.

Clinton never was a Baptist --to my knowledge. He's a Methodist --a United Methodist. Has everyone forgotten how, in the first campaign, Hillary was touted as a "lay preacher" in the United Methodist Church?

Clinton isn't now, and never was, anything but a Bible Carrier.

Carter is going to Hell!!!

[DoctorDoom]

He says the goal is to demonstrate a "common commitment" to the goals of Jesus Christ.The only time those two ever mention Jesus Christ is when then they get a paper cut while reading Move-On propaganda.

Jimmeh, I know this will cause you great anguish, but Jesus was a Jew, from Israel. And do you know what Jesus' goals were, Jimmeh?

Matt 9:13b I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Matt 18:11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

He came to Earth to save sinners, Jimmeh, not to justify sin. And he came to the Jews that you loathe.

Matt 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

How are you serving him when you hate His chosen people, Jimmeh?

As for BJ Billy, he as a Baptist is about equal in credibility to Madonna as a nun.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

The SBC ought to keep trying to distance themselves from Carter and Clinton, not the other way around.


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[DesertFox]

Why don't Carter and Clinton just become Episcopalians?I think Episcopalians don't allow Communists.

[Seabee]

Carter left the convention in 2000, but stresses that Southern Baptists are invited to attend the meeting. He says the goal is to demonstrate a "common commitment" to the goals of Jesus Christ.

"Common commitment to the goals of Jesus Christ?" Since when did Jesus want to drive the Israelies into the sea????

[Rhino]

Clinton never was a Baptist --to my knowledge. He's a Methodist --a United Methodist. Has everyone forgotten how, in the first campaign, Hillary was touted as a "lay preacher" in the United Methodist Church?Senator Clinton is lifelong, devout Methodist, and was especially active in church groups as a teenager.http://usliberals.about.com/od/liberalpersonalprofiles/p/HillaryClinton.htm

But it was his eight-year association with Wogaman's congregation, Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., that drew public attention on January 7. At the 11 A. M. service, President Clinton gave the sermon after daughter Chelsea read from the Old Testament and Senator Clinton, a life-long Methodist, gave the New Testament reading.http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_3_118/ai_70368710

Clinton was born in Chicago and raised as a Methodist.http://www.samsloan.com/billsdad.htm

[Kathy30]

For the life of me, I cannot imagine a more bizarre spirtual advisor than Bill Clinton, unless it's Jesse Jackson.

A religious marriage of Carter and Clinton. Two of the most destructive individuals in the world, re-organizing the Baptists! Surely we have wandered through the looking glass.