by Bob Allen | Jun 15, 2005 | News
Some of the “values voters” who helped President Bush win a second term questioned his plans to attend a $2,500-a-plate GOP fundraiser with a 24-year-old porn star and political wannabe. Mary Carey, an X-rated actress and one of 135 candidates to run for...
by Bob Allen | Jun 15, 2005 | News
Leaders of more than 40 statewide family groups sent a letter Tuesday urging the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a resolution on homosexual “activism” in public schools. The letter urged Gene Mims, chairman of the SBC Resolutions Committee, to allow...
by Bob Allen | Jun 14, 2005 | News
What America needs is a new Christian flag. At least that’s what Marcia Thompson Eldreth thought in April 2003, when her Southern Baptist pastor preached that every believer should fly the Christian flag, even if someone had to make a new one. The idea stuck...
by Bob Allen | Jun 13, 2005 | News
An early supporter of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Disney boycott said it is unlikely it would pass today, because of a two-year-old rule that allows the SBC Resolutions Committee to “filibuster” to keep controversial or unpopular resolutions...
by Bob Allen | Jun 10, 2005 | News
Baptist Press in recent months has published numerous stories touching on homosexuality—from support for a Federal Marriage Amendment, to criticism of “activist” judges, to the Senate filibuster, to the role of religious conservatives in re-electing...
