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“Southern Baptists voted
overwhelmingly to condemn ‘alt-right white supremacy’
… The new text of the
resolution noted some of the convention’s previous actions on race,
including how Southern Baptists voted in 1995 to apologize for the
role that slavery played in the convention’s creation. It noted how
in 2012 it elected its first black president. More than 20 percent of
Southern Baptist congregations, it says, identifies as predominantly
nonwhite.
“Racism and white
supremacy are, sadly, not extinct but present all over the world in
various white supremacist movements, sometimes known as ‘white
nationalism’ or ‘alt-right,’ ” the resolution states.
Southern Baptists “decry every form of racism, including alt-right
white supremacy, as antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ” and
“we denounce and repudiate white supremacy and every form of racial
and ethnic hatred as of the devil.”
Moore and Steve Gaines,
the president of the SBC, who worked on the revised resolution,
declined to comment on the resolution before it came to a vote. But
Moore said he was encouraged by the decision to revisit the
resolution. “They recognize that white supremacy in this alt-right
guise is dangerous and devilish and we need to say something,”
Moore said.
McKissic, who wrote the
original resolution, declined to speculate over why the committee
didn’t bring his proposal forward. He said black Southern Baptists
were disappointed by how it was handled, but it became clear on
Tuesday that a large number of white Southern Baptists wanted to vote
on the resolution.
“I don’t think they
anticipated how white people would get upset about this and demand
something be done,” McKissic said. “I’m encouraged and
heartened by this. It was the white people who said, no we will not
take this sitting down. We don’t want this association with the
convention.”
Just before the proposal
was passed, one member asked Southern Baptist leaders whether a study
of the “alt right and the alt left” could be done this year. But
then several Southern Baptists stood before the convention urging the
convention to adopt the resolution before it passed. … “
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