where Y’all supported Abortion in the 1970’s and 1980’s
http://mainstreambaptist.blogspot.com/2006/10/on-southern-baptist-position-on.html
The Link you all asked for...above
Some Key Comments...
To cite my favorite example — and any of you who has heard me speak before has heard this example, so I apologize for that — in 1973 when the infamous decision of Roe v. Wade came down, the Southern Baptist Convention, which is America’s largest evangelical Protestant denomination, endorsed it. That is a remarkable fact that is almost totally neglected given the fact that the Southern Baptist convention sort of embodies everything that we think of when we think about being on the right side of the culture war issues.
But there were a number of reasons why the SBC endorsed Roe v. Wade. One of them was that they knew Catholics were opposed to abortion, and in our country if Catholics are in favor of one thing, the Baptists are always in favor of the opposite.
NOW FOLKS I THOUGHT YOU FOLLOWED THE BIBLE.....doesn’t appear so.... anti Catholic and Political.. What a Theology!
I see that I was in error when I considered giving you the benefit of the doubt. Frankly, you (and the Pope) should be more concerned about pro-abortion bishops than with our business.
Since you must have missed Gamecock’s post 16, here’s a link to the full report:
REPORT OF THE AD INTERIM COMMITTEE ON ABORTION
6th General Assembly, 1978, Appendix O, pages 270 - 281.
http://www.pcahistory.org/pca/2-015.html
Abortion in distinction from miscarriage, is the intentional killing of an unborn child between conception and birth. The moral question raised in any abortion is whether the life of the unborn child is included in the Biblical teaching respecting the sanctity of life. The special protection God gives to human life is founded upon His making man “in His own image” (Gen. 1:26, 27. All scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible). So basic is this to His created order that God declares: “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God He made man” (Gen. 9:6). This protection is then summarized in the sixth commandment, “You shall not murder” (Ex. 20:13; cf. Westminster Shorter Catechism, pp. 68-69, and Westminster Larger Catechism, pp. 135-136, where the requirements and prohibitions of the commandment are set forth).
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Abortion in distinction from miscarriage, is the intentional killing of an unborn child between conception and birth. The moral question raised in any abortion is whether the life of the unborn child is included in the Biblical teaching respecting the sanctity of life. The special protection God gives to human life is founded upon His making man “in His own image” (Gen. 1:26, 27. All scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible). So basic is this to His created order that God declares: “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God He made man” (Gen. 9:6). This protection is then summarized in the sixth commandment, “You shall not murder” (Ex. 20:13; cf. Westminster Shorter Catechism, pp. 68-69, and Westminster Larger Catechism, pp. 135-136, where the requirements and prohibitions of the commandment are set forth).
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1. That because Scripture clearly affirms the sanctity of human life and condemns its arbitrary destruction, we affirm that the intentional killing of an unborn child between conception and birth, for any reason at any time, is clearly a violation of the Sixth Commandment; Adopted.