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9. interesting point, that: the SoBapts actually had an outright *coup*

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 03:11 AM

Dec 2014

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

ditto the NRA and even the creationists (who were half anti-eugenicist Rockefeller Republicans): this was synchronized to the rise of think tanks (which basically are pay-to-play ideologues)

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AMEN! marym625 Dec 2014 #1

Weren't the Baptists the ones pushing this freedom? braddy Dec 2014 #2

interesting point, that: the SoBapts actually had an outright *coup* MisterP Dec 2014 #9

I meant the Baptists asking Thomas Jefferson braddy Dec 2014 #11

Hallelejah! appalachiablue Dec 2014 #3

, blkmusclmachine Dec 2014 #4

You mean we're free to believe what we believe? czarjak Dec 2014 #5

Well,I believe packman Dec 2014 #6

Wixh I could K&R this a thousand times. JDPriestly Dec 2014 #7

nice, but 110 years earlier... quaker bill Dec 2014 #8

"or to underwrite it with taxes" progressoid Dec 2014 #10