PHOENIX — A national meeting of Southern Baptists will consider
condemning the political movement known as the "alt-right" amid an
uproar over the denomination's commitment to confronting prejudice.
Leaders of the faith group initially refused
to take up a proposal that they repudiate the political group that
emerged dramatically during the U.S. presidential election, mixing
racism, white nationalism and populism. Barrett Duke, a Southern Baptist
leader who led a committee that decided which resolutions should be
considered for a vote, said the resolution as originally written
contained inflammatory and broad language "potentially implicating"
conservatives who do not support the "alt-right" movement.
But the decision caused a backlash online and
at the gathering in Phoenix from Southern Baptists and other Christians,
especially African-American evangelicals. The denomination has been
striving to overcome its founding in the 19th century in defense of
slaveholders. Thabiti Anyabwile, a black Southern Baptist pastor,
tweeted that "any 'church' that cannot denounce white supremacy without
hesitancy and equivocation is a dead, Jesus denying assembly. No 2 ways
about it".
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Source: NBC News
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