Moore knows that. He is also pro-amnesty. People like him says such things as a way to portray themselves in what they think is a more acceptable, morally superior, enlightened, levels. The implications of his statement is belittling to Baptists.
“People like him says such things as a way to portray themselves in what they think is a more acceptable, morally superior, enlightened, levels.”
Exactly!
There really is no ‘leadership’ in the SBC. It is a collection of individual churches who support missionaries and seminaries with their funding. But the SBC only exists to make funding of missions and seminaries easier. No one in the SBC has the right to speak for any member congregation.
The “SBC leadership” has become a bunch of panty-waist liberals sucking up to the media. They care more about what the Washington Post thinks than the member churches. This is their way of saying, “I’m not a racist”. In my experience, those who proclaim they are not racists usually are.
I’m a member of a small SBC church. We have a few blacks, a few Filipinas, are more white than anything else and about half the congregation is retired. We’ll welcome anyone who repents, believes and is baptized. We don’t need some liberal white southerner worrying about racism in the south in 1840. Many of our members are old, but none of us are THAT old!