Controversy abounds.
Thank you, Keith, for providing information and facts on this subject.
When the subject was brought up, many assumed that some went without water due to the Baptists religious convictions.
Although I am not a Baptist, I am sure that those who offered their time and help would have given up their own water to the victims of the hurricane, before allowing them to go without.
That they held onto their religious convictions in the face of criticism is something that deserves admiration and respect.
Those who judge the Baptists for this act should answer this:
Which would you do?
Stick with your religious convictions in the face of criticism and judgment?
Or ignore your convictions due to fear of criticism and judgement?
Take this. An emergency volunteer denies you treatment because it is against their religious convictions to extend the life of an idiot.
Easy to say something grand like this. Hard to actually do that.
Now, nobody wants them to pass out something that they feel contradicts their message. But I bet the Salvation Army or the Red Cross would have been glad to take the evil water off their hands.
They IMPOSED their religious convictions on others. That makes them no better than Muslims.
I'm not gonna judge them at all except to say thank you SBC for your tireless efforts here. But one thing that I can assure you of, if those men had been in our shoes after Katrina, they not only would have passed it out, they would have been drinking it and gladly and with thanks.