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struggle4progress

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5. I think Land got to be a bit much too much even for the Southern Baptists:

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 06:41 AM

Nov 2013

he was president of their Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for about 25 years, but following his 2012 remarks on the Trayvon Martin case, he earned a reprimand; and he was subsequently shown to have regularly plagiarized other people's word

I'm pretty sure his retirement from the Commission was rather strongly encouraged by the Southern Baptist Convention

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I think Land got to be a bit much too much even for the Southern Baptists: struggle4progress Nov 2013 #5

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