Yes, it's a slanted article. Many facts missing, including the one that shows that the Baptists were indeed handing out the water.
Here's a question -- were people going *without* water because the Baptists weren't giving the Busch water to them? Were there, for example, cases of Dasani being handed out?
I don't get the whole article. Why can't other people hand out the water? Red Cross is there... Apparently Busch employees are there...other charities are there I'm sure that don't have a problem passing it out.
Why pass it out at all? Just stick it on the side of the road and let people get it for themselves.
Everyone knows the SBC's position...seems like a smear job from the press and from Busch to me.
I personally know of volunteers who have taken their own vacation from work to go and help...they go for a week at a time in teams of 20 just from Oklahoma alone. They're not just passing out water, they are dressed in hazmat suits masks tearing out rotting home interiors and providing showers and washers/dryers for those that need them and watching children while people try to get their lives back in order. They're sawing up tree-limbs and repairing homes. About 80% of the meals that the Red Cross has passed out were prepared by Southern Baptist mobile food trailers.
There are Southern Baptist Medical professionals in Pakistan helping with the earthquake situation.
Southern Baptists are the 2nd largest trained disaster relief organization in the United States, after the Red Cross.
Let's trash 'em.