When Southern Baptists Were Pro-choice

[shaayecanaan]

23. Well, there's a lot of bare assertions in there...

I'll be sure to look up "Jim...forget his name".

I look to Reagan's statement: "I know you can't endorse me, but I endorse you". Prior to that religious voters had been very squeamish about getting involved in politics.

I am not disputing that the SBC is more right-wing now as it was then. It is of a much more political bent than it was before. That is not because Baptists were liberals previously, it is because they were far more distrustful of government and generally sought to limit their involvement with it as much as possible.

Ted Cruz' dad, for instance - would be considered bat shit crazy by S. Baptists. But they ignore the "finer points" of his religious heresy because he's so right wing.

Agreed. The religious rules have been relaxed at the same time that the political rules have been tightened.

Baptists traditionally supported the wall of separation between church and state, nowadays most of them probably think it is some sort of leftist deceit that the communists dreamed up:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptists_in_the_history_of_separation_of_church_and_state