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Title: Majority of Baptists Support Bush
Source: Information Clearing House
URL Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15155.htm
Published: Sep 30, 2006
Author: By ROSE FRENCH
Post Date: 2006-09-30 17:30:27 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 281
Comments: 13

Associated Press Writer

09/28/06 "AP" -- -- The head of public policy for the Southern Baptist Convention says an overwhelming majority of Baptists still support President Bush and his handling of the Iraq war.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Richard Land said that exit polls showed about 84 percent of Southern Baptists voted for Bush in 2004. The Iraq war hasn't significantly eroded that support, he said, despite recent polls that show Republicans losing ground with moderate evangelicals.

"I'm not ready to throw in the towel on Iraq yet," said Land, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm.

"It would be foolish to say anybody's pleased," Land said. "I don't think the president's pleased with the progress of the war. Clearly, he would have wished things would have gone better. So do I."

But, Land added: "I still think Iraq is one of the more noble things we've done. We went there to try to restore freedom and to bring freedom to the Middle East."

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted earlier this month indicated that 42 percent of white evangelicals disapprove of the job Bush has done as president.

But Land contends Bush has lost less support from Southern Baptists than "virtually any other constituency." The Nashville-based SBC is the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. with over 16 million members.

"I don't think there's any question that the vast majority of Southern Baptists still strongly support this president and his policies," Land said.

Southern Baptists have been among the most vocal of conservative Christian groups in support of the Bush administration.

The president has spoken by video link to the Southern Baptist national convention three times in recent years and outgoing SBC President Jack Graham called the president "a man of personal faith whose leadership is great for America."

Land, who also serves on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent and bipartisan federal agency, said the United States needs to worry less about trying to improve its image in the Middle East.

Instead, Land says, "we ought to go negative."

"We ought to be spending our money explaining what the Middle East would look like if the jihadists win, what Afghanistan looked like when the Taliban was in control and what the role of women was.

"We need to focus more on the fact that most people being killed in Iraq are not Americans but Muslims being killed by other Muslims," he said. "If democracy loses in the Middle East, it's Muslims who will be the primary losers."

Southern Baptist Convention: - http://www.sbc.net/

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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)

Majority of Baptists Support Bush

Not too surprizing for America's Taliban.

"First I'm gonna bother everybody I meet, and then I'll probably go home and get drunk."

orangedog  posted on  2006-09-30   17:32:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Zipporah (#0)

Majority of Baptists Support Bush

I'm surrounded by them here. 3 of 4 churches around here are Baptist, and they all think the Muzzies are killers who only want to blow things up and go to heaven to get their virgins.

“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.” James Fenimore Cooper

BTP Holdings  posted on  2006-09-30   17:34:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: orangedog (#1)

Not too surprizing for America's Taliban.

excellent analogy .. and arrogant is the day is long..

Zipporah  posted on  2006-09-30   17:34:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: BTP Holdings (#2)

Idiots.. of course they're basing that on a couple of lines from the koran.. I wonder if anyone would take it and pieces from the OT how that would read .. not good IMO.

Zipporah  posted on  2006-09-30   17:36:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Zipporah (#3)

.. and arrogant is the day is long..

Jews don't recognize Christ as the messiah
Protestants don't recognize the pope as the leader of the church
Baptists don't recognize each other at the liquor store.

"First I'm gonna bother everybody I meet, and then I'll probably go home and get drunk."

orangedog  posted on  2006-09-30   17:38:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: BTP Holdings (#2)

I'm surrounded by them here. 3 of 4 churches around here are Baptist,

I live in SW Missouri. It's the same way here.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Benjamin Franklin

Fibr Dog  posted on  2006-09-30   17:43:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: orangedog (#5)

lol!

"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."

- Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers

robin  posted on  2006-09-30   17:45:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Zipporah (#0)

Rapture monkies love their Leader.

Burkeman1  posted on  2006-09-30   17:47:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Fibr Dog (#6)

I live in SW Missouri. It's the same way here.

We are not far apart. I'm in South Central part of state not far from Branson.

“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.” James Fenimore Cooper

BTP Holdings  posted on  2006-09-30   17:47:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: orangedog (#5)

Jews don't recognize Christ as the messiah Protestants don't recognize the pope as the leader of the church Baptists don't recognize each other at the liquor store.

And, a Catholic owns the building, a Jew runs the liquor business and a protestant cleans the place.

Cynicom  posted on  2006-09-30   17:48:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Zipporah (#0)

"We ought to be spending our money explaining what the Middle East would look like if the jihadists win, what Afghanistan looked like when the Taliban was in control and what the role of women was."

How about you spend some money to explain why any of this should concern me or any other American and what right does FEDGOV have stealing money and lives from Americans to perpetuate its Middle East policy.

"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.

Pissed Off Janitor  posted on  2006-09-30   17:56:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: BTP Holdings (#9)

We are not far apart. I'm in South Central part of state not far from Branson.

I live in Cassville, which is about fifty miles west of Branson. Howdy neighbor.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Benjamin Franklin

Fibr Dog  posted on  2006-09-30   17:57:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Fibr Dog (#12)

Howdy neighbor.

Have to hookup some time. ;0)

“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.” James Fenimore Cooper

BTP Holdings  posted on  2006-09-30   18:01:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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