No-hoper for Southern Baptists

[Jeff & Penny Harper]

If I may?  

Bandwraith writes:

>Nice to see, in the wake of Jerry Falwell's overtly
>petulant racism regarding the prophet Mohammed,
>that fellow southern Baptist, Jimmy Carter, was
>recognized for his untiring efforts to mediate
>peace.

I believe that would be *former* fellow Southern Baptist:  
from http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/10/20/carter.baptists.ap/ :

Jimmy Carter breaks lifelong ties to Southern Baptists
October 20, 2000
By Kristen Wyatt/Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) -- The Southern Baptists, already suffering from defections because of the denomination's conservative positions, have lost one of their best-known members: Jimmy Carter. 
The former president, whose evangelical Christian faith figured prominently in his 1976 White House campaign, said in a letter mailed to fellow Baptists that he is cutting ties to the Southern Baptist Convention after struggling with the "increasingly rigid" creed of the nation's largest Protestant denomination. 
Some of the group's positions, including recent decisions barring women pastors and declaring that wives should "submit graciously" to their husbands, "violate the basic premises of my Christian faith," Carter wrote.  

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