{"id":1387,"date":"2013-06-10T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/06\/southern-baptists-meet-in-houston.html"},"modified":"2013-06-10T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:30:00","slug":"southern-baptists-meet-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/06\/southern-baptists-meet-in-houston.html","title":{"rendered":"Southern Baptists Meet In Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
A decade ago, the Southern Baptist Convention was riding high.<\/span><\/div>\n
The president of the United States was a conservative evangelical Christian who personally addressed the group\u2019s annual meetings, either by satellite or video, at least four times in two terms, and SBC leaders were feeling their influence at the highest levels of government.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ten years later, as members prepare for their 2013 annual meeting in Houston on Tuesday, the nation\u2019s largest Protestant denomination finds itself in flux: It has less influence in government and a growing diversity that may be diminishing its role as a partisan political player. And some Southern Baptists are beginning to cry foul at what they see as discrimination by gays and liberals that violates their religious liberty.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cFor 100 years the Southern Baptists have been the dominating religious entity of the South,\u201d said David W. Key Sr., director of Baptist Studies at Emory University\u2019s Candler School of Theology and a Southern Baptist. \u201cNow they are starting to feel religious victimhood. \u2026 In many ways, Baptists introduced pluralism to America. Now they are feeling like victims of that pluralism.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
A resolution passed at last year\u2019s SBC meeting titled \u201cOn Protecting Religious Liberty\u201d cites several issues of concern: They include the Obama administration\u2019s mandate requiring religiously affiliated institutions (but not houses of worship) to provide contraceptive coverage for their employees; government defense of gay marriage; and the acceptance of gay service members in the U.S. military.<\/span><\/div>\n
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