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Meet the Southern Baptist Convention’s First Black President

Frank Luter: Southern Baptist Conventions First Black PresidentNEW ORLEANS (The Blaze/AP) — At the end of the day Wednesday, the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention will pass to an African-American pastor for the first time. The Blaze had previously reported that Luter was likely to win.

The nation’s largest Protestant denomination voted Tuesday to elect the Rev. Fred Luter Jr. to lead them, an important step for a denomination that was formed on the wrong side of slavery before the Civil War and had a reputation for supporting segregation and racism during much of the last century.

(Related: Southern Baptist Convention Set to Elect First Black President)

In a news conference after the vote, Luter said he doesn’t think his election is some kind of token gesture.

“If we stop appointing African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics to leadership positions after this, we’ve failed,” he said. “… I promise you I’m going to do all that I can to make sure this is not just a one-and-done deal.”

Frank Luter: Southern Baptist Conventions First Black President

Faced with declining membership, the SBC has been making efforts to appeal to a more diverse group of believers.

Some Southern Baptists also believe a proposal to adopt an optional alternative name, Great Commission Baptists, will bring in believers who have negative associations with the current name. The results of a vote on that proposal was to be announced Wednesday.

Luter was unopposed when he was elected by thousands of enthusiastic delegates Tuesday at the SBC annual meeting in his hometown of New Orleans.

He spoke about the decline in SBC membership and his own efforts to grow his church, which included intensive outreach to men, and his concern that men in his inner-city neighborhood were not taking responsibility for their children.

He began to cry as he recalled growing up with a divorced mother and no father in the house, saying he asked God, “Let me be that role model to my son that I didn’t have.” And he recounted how his son followed him into ministry and asked Luter to be his best man at his wedding.

Frank Luter: Southern Baptist Conventions First Black President

Luter described what he hopes to achieve for the convention, saying he has always had the ability to get along with everyone. He plans to use that skill to bring denominational leaders together to discuss how they can leave aside their differences and work together to spread the Gospel.

Pastor David Crosby of First Baptist New Orleans nominated Luter, calling him a “fire-breathing, miracle-working pastor“ who ”would likely be a candidate for sainthood if he were Catholic.”

Crosby said the SBC needs Luter at the head of the table as it increasingly focuses on diversifying its membership.

“Many leaders are convinced this nomination is happening now by the provenance of God,” he said.

Luter wiped tears from his eyes as he accepted the position. Two female ushers from the Franklin Avenue congregation embraced, swaying and weeping with joy.

Frank Luter: Southern Baptist Conventions First Black President

“I think I’m just too overwhelmed by it right now to speak,” said another member, Malva Marsalis.

A minister from Luter’s church, Darren Martin, said the SBC’s past support of slavery and segregation are well known, but Luter’s election was “a true sign … that change from within has really come. …Christ is at the center of the SBC.”

The proposal to adopt an alternative name was more controversial than Luter’s election. The Tuesday vote was too close to call by a show of hands so paper ballots were cast.

Those who supported the alternative name argued that “Southern Baptist” can be a turn-off to potential believers.

They said adopting “Great Commission Baptists” as an optional name would help missionaries and church planters to reach more people for Christ.

An online poll by the SBC’s Lifeway Research of 2,000 Americans found that 44 percent said knowing a church was Southern Baptist would negatively affect their decision to visit or join.

Those who opposed the alternative said Southern Baptists should be proud of the denomination’s name and reputation.

The “Great Commission” refers to Matthew 28:16-20, in which Jesus instructs his disciples at Galilee to go forth and make disciples of all nations.

Comments (58)

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  • blackyb
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:08pm

    I can only pray that this man holds his stewardship the way God would want it, not as a menpleaser, but for God and his Holy Word.

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    • DisgruntledInClinton
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:00pm

      I hope, that when people disagree with this man or try to vote him out at some point, he doesn’t make it into a constant race war, like Obama and the black Dems do…

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  • PROSECUTE_PUBLIC_SERVANTS__FOR_CONSTITUTIONAL_TREASON
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:20pm

    Slavery is an off topic. The SBC will be non existant in 50 years. We have a Country headed to destruction and those who claim to spiritually lead are focused on 1865 issues. These people are out of touch with God and this Country. The SBC elects a person of color that is focused on color. Who cares about color? Get over it. It’s time to focus on real issues. The coming destruction of America from vile and wicked political leaders. The destruction of our churches by the whorish act of receiving 501C3 tax exempt status in return for silence in the pulpit about political sin. The destruction of the family. The out of touch SBC. These are the real issues.

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  • ASonOfLiberty1776
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:56pm

    Well, as a member of the SBC, at least no one can claim that we’re racist. I would have preferred Voddie Baucham, but I’m willing to see what Luter has to offer.

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  • tharpdevenport
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 6:54pm

    I’m not a part of any religion, and what this story failed to convey to me is — which I am hoping others hear can rectify: is this good or bad? Is this court bad? Is this a good thing or bad thing he was elected? Do they spread goodness, or hate, tread some middle ground?

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    • woodmantech
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:53pm

      The SBC is an organization of over 45,000 churches (16 million members) throughout the United States. The convention is not only an annual meeting but it is a sort of “organization” of churches who share the same beliefs and teachings that allows them to band together to achieve more than they can do alone. Many churches get together, through the SBC connections, to go on mission trips, serve the needy in a local area, etc., etc.

      The SBC is an outstanding organization and has done the Lord’s work for decades. This article is simply stating the news that the new president happens to be black. It really isn’t that much of a story, but given all the racial tensions penetrating our society right now, this should give both “sides” (black and non-black) some reason to smile.

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    • 4QU
      Posted on June 23, 2012 at 7:15pm

      You would think that Jesus and the New Testament would have a different view of slavery, but slavery is still approved of in the New Testament, as the following passages show.

      Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5 NLT)

      Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)

      In the following parable, Jesus clearly approves of beating slaves even if they didn’t know they were doing anything wrong.

      The servant will be severely punished, for though he knew his duty, he refused to do it. “But people who are not aware that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly. Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more is given.” (Luke 12:47-48 NLT)

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  • Truth1776
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:18pm

    Great Commission Baptist sounds good to me. I pray Reverand Lute will be a great leader of and by faith and that he will stand tall in defense of Christianity and bringing God back into the everyday lives of all of us.

    God Bless

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  • dennisS
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 3:24pm

    @grudgywoof, not a logical response. However this ‘troll’ owns and has read the following C.S. Lewis books: Mere Christianity; God in the Dock; Miracles; The Joyful Christian; The Pilgrims Regress; The Worlds Last Night; The Screwtape Letters; The case for Christianity; The Four Loves; The Great Divorce; A Grief Observed; The Abolition of Man. Many of these books I have read numerous times, so yes, we ‘trolls’ do have a few books and do read.

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    • woodmantech
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:54pm

      @Denniss, ever read the Bible? It is much better than all the books you listed.

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    • dennisS
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:22pm

      yeah, maybe 50-60 times all the way through

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  • TEARS FOR AMERICA
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:52pm

    I do not look at the man of God and see his skin color, but I do look at their character, their doctrine, whether they are preaching the truth or a lie. There were men on that stage, like Richard Land (kissy brother to Jim Wallis-a wolf in sheeps clothing), that I would refuse to follow to Waffle House, much less hell. The slow, miserable death of a denomination that has in the past stood on the truth of the Word of God has been infiltrated by liberal deceivers to make way for the antichrist. Time will tell with Rev. Luter!

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  • izukiddin
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:22pm

    Great Commission Baptists has a very good ring to it and has little to do with Rev. Luter and much to do with the outgowing president Bryant Wright

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  • DissenterKnight
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:56am

    There’s a lot in the responses to this story that seems bent on inciting hostility between the universal (catholic with a small “c”) body of Christ. When we find ourselves tempted to judge our brothers and sisters on some meaningless point of dogma or doctrine, there are a couple of verses we need to keep in mind. The first is Matthew 13: 32

    [32] Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

    There is no shortage of scholars who look to Matthew 13: 32 and see an allusion to those whose faiths differ in their core elements. That view point holds that the tree is Faith in Christ, the branches are divergences of importance only to man and the birds are the saints of any denomination.

    Much of what defines us as different is unimportant to G-d. In point of fact, the thief on the cross, told that he would be with Christ in heaven that very day, is the exception to most every legalistic point we’ve established except the need to proclaim it before humanity.

    Given that, we look to Genesis 45: 23 – 24 (from the Message)

    [24] Then he sent his brothers off. As they left he told them, “Take it easy on the journey; try to get along with each other.”

    Joseph is an allusion to, a foreshadowing of Christ. Like his brothers we are on our way home. Provided the core elements of the faith are entact, we need to chill. It’s time we

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  • UnreconstructedLibertarian
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:20am

    Welcome to the final stage of liberalization for the SBC.

    Do you honestly think this is coincidental? Did you not notice that Santorum took all the southern states on religious issues. The SBC about to be neutered politically.

    The author of this article is a liar, the split between northern and southern baptists was due to the wish of northern baptists to have a centrally controlled association vs. the southern baptists who desired to keep the member churches autonomous. This occurred 20 years before the civil war, at time at which many northern states were also slave states. I seriously doubt anyone has studied this for themselves and just trust their “betters” to tell you what to believe – which is the whole problem with the country as a whole.

    As usual, if you don’t submit to the central planners – they’ll trump up whatever they feel is the most evil charge they can levy. Slavery, the mantra of demagogues in 1840, 1860, and 2012 (in case you haven’t noticed).

    I’m an Independent Baptist, mainly because we reject the amount of central control even the SBC has attempted to exert on the churches during the past 100 years.

    Good luck SBC members, your liberalization is just beginning in earnest.

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  • Blazen420
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:58am

    Sounds like he is more concerned with race than with religion.

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  • John Burwell
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:31am

    @walkabout what is your point? BTW I do not belong to any denomination. and I am not impressed with the fact that professional clergy get together and talk shop, what does that have to do with what is or is not Biblical faith, or the true gospel? Do you really think that we are waiting for the day when men finally hash this all out and come to an agreement?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:21pm

      What do you think Catholics do? Hold satanic masses? Sacrifice children? I don’t see the point in running down the RCC.

      You can speak in diminutive terms about talking shop as if nothing ever constructive could come about over it. It might be social. It might not be like a inquiry commission or court of law, but who knows what comes out of it.

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    • John Burwell
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:29pm

      @Walkabout, no I do not think that they sacrifice children, but the mass is antichrist in that it denies the sufficiency of Christ’s offering on the cross when He paid the debt of sin and declared that is was finished. The Pope is not the head of the church as claimed, by the RCC, Mary can’t do a thing for you, nor can any of the saints, Mary had other children after Christ, the priest cannot forgive your sins unless they happen to be against them personally,there is no purgatory for you to bu masses for in order to have a loved one released from purgatory early, the “sacraments” do nothing to take away your sin or secure salvation. The RCC is not the means of salvation, transubstantiation is a satanic lie, the continual offering of Christ for the expiation of sin is putting Christ to an open shame and doing despite to the spirit of grace and counting the blood of Christ as an unclean thing. Compulsory celibacy for priests, is not Biblical in fact the priesthood is not biblical, Peter was married, he was not the first pope in fact he was not a pope at all, apostolic succession withing the RCC is absolutely false. The list goes on and on, the RCC is antiChrist, before you have an attack find out what that means.

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    • by faith
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:09pm

      John Borewell

      can you answer just one question for me?
      You said: “Mary had other children after Christ”

      can you prove this?

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  • rickc34
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:24am

    Lets see which is stronger his faith and love for God to do right or the color of his skin to defend a President that he knows is breaking the law by his actions and that is racial. Let us see if he will compromise .

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    • JRook
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:59am

      Let’s hope the first thing he does is sue the Westboro Baptist Church to stop using Baptist in their name. Like most church organizations and churches, there is a world of good they can do by just cleaning up their own ranks and congregations.

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  • John Burwell
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:15am

    pastor“ who ”would likely be a candidate for sainthood if he were Catholic.” is that supposed to be a compliment?

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    • John Burwell
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:23am

      John Paul II offered new indulgences for the “Jubilee Year of 2000,” such as: walk through one of the four “holy doors” that the pope opened for that year in Rome , and receive a plenary indulgence. [A plenary indulgence is a remission of the entire temporal punishment due to sin so that no further expiation is required in purgatory. ( New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia , http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07783a.htm )]

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    • John Burwell
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:24am

      John Paul II boasted that pilgrimages to Rome for plenary indulgences began in 1300 under Pope Boniface VIII–a “pope” who had both a mother and her daughter among his many mistresses and who gave indulgences to his troops to destroy the historic city of Palestrina, slaughtering its 6,000 inhabitants and reducing it to a plowed field, which was sown with salt. Yet Boniface was hardly the most evil of the popes whom the present pope looks proudly upon as Peter’s successors who have handed that authority down to him. In 1302, Boniface issued the “infallible Bull,” UnamSanctam , making absolute allegiance to the pope a condition of salvation–still in full force today.

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    • John Burwell
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:28am

      In a February 1980 addendum to his Last Will and Testament of March 6, 1979 , John Paul II entrusted “that decisive moment [of death] to the Mother of Christ and of the Church [and] of my hope.” Embroidered inside all of his robes was the phrase, Totustuus sum Maria , “Mary I am all yours.”

      In “The Holy Father’s Prayer for the Marian Year,” John Paul II asked Mary to comfort, guide, strengthen, and protect “the whole of humanity” and added, “Sustain us, O Virgin Mary…and obtain for us the grace of eternal salvation.”

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  • JQCitizen
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:13am

    Fred Luter: ” If we stop appointing African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics to leadership positions after this, we’ve failed.”…” I promise you I’m going to do all I can to make sure this is not a one-and-done deal.”

    Well, it’s nice to know that a head of an important segment of our Evangelical Church has as his BIG PRIORITY Racial Quotas! GREAT JOB, Southern Baptist Convention!!!

    After all that was CERTAINLY what Christ was talking about when he gave the Great Commission, and I’m just SURE that was what the Apostle Paul was referring to when he said, “Earnestly Contend for the Faith.”

    Yeah, they were DOWN-RIGHT HOMIES with the Reverent Jeremiah Wright!!!

    What a CROCK!!!!

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:51am

      If you say there is no difference between Rev. Luter & Rev Wright, your statement would surely paint you. Big Blip.

      I have more in common with an African American (just American) like Luter than to OWS, atheists and progressives.

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  • Dismayed Veteran
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:49am

    I am a Roman Catholic. The Baptists and Catholics have a long history of not getting along. Now it is time to put that aside. The country is becoming less and less God centered during a time when we are engaged in a religious war with a “religion” that wants to kill Christians, regardless of denomination.

    I hope that the the SBC has elected a leader who will stand strong for Christianity during this terrible time. I pray that the SBC is successful in spreading the Word of God.

    It would be a nice step if the people posting on The Blaze would not be critical of members of another Christian faith.

    Congratulations Reverand Luter. May God guide your hand.

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    • John Burwell
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:19am

      Dismayedveteran surely you realize that the RCC condemns all others as lost?
      The Roman Catholic Church has been in full-blown apostasy for 1,300 years [having] persecuted and killed true Christians. It has never repented of this evil and is now enjoying the support of leading evangelicals in a way that would have shocked biblical Christians only 50 years ago. The Council of Trent (1545-1563) brought together the leading bishops and cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church in order to counter the Reformation. The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent contain more than 100 anathemas condemning every point of the true gospel and damning to hell those who believe it. For example: “If anyone says that the sacraments of the New Law [Catholic rituals] are not necessary for salvation but men obtain from God through faith alone the grace of justification, let him be anathema”; “If anyone says that baptism is not necessary for salvation, let him be anathema”; “If anyone says that in the Mass a true and real sacrifice is not offered to God [but] a mere commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the cross [and] not a propitiatory one, let him be anathema.”

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    • John Burwell
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:44am

      Few lay Catholics are familiar with the Code of Canon Law, containing more than 1,750 laws which dictate Church rules and practice. Most know the laws they agree with and which ones they reject, but few Catholics understand that they have no such liberty of choice in this comprehensive legalistic system. Any ongoing conscious disobedience with regard to the commands of the Church excludes one from “the state of grace”—thus condemning one to hell. This bondage to law brings to mind the rebuke Jesus directed at the religious leaders of His day. From their extrabiblical tradition they imposed on the people “the commandments of men” (Mat:15:9

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    • SocialistSlayer
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:45am

      I am Roman Catholic and not once have I heard anyone from any church I have ever attended state one negative comment about another religion. If you have heard the likes of this it must have been in your own home. You have no right to speak for other Catholics.
      And as to you Mr Burwell, while the Catholic Church is not perfect it’s history is no less vile than any other religion. The Catholic Church was founded by the disciples of Jesus , We are the Christian church. Your history lesson makes no point and has no bearing on this topic.

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    • John Burwell
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:02am

      @SOCIALISTSLAYER my comments were addressed to DISMAYEDVETERAN and they are relevant to his comments. The RCC is not Christian, they have murdered many thousands of true Christians and non Christians for refusing to conform to their man made antichrist religious mandates. Read the history.

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    • John Burwell
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:14am

      The history of the church became the history of heresies and the persecution of those who opposed them. Historian Peter de Rosa, himself a Roman Catholic, admits that Catholicism became “the most persecuting faith the world has ever seen…. [Pope] Innocent III murdered far more Christians in one afternoon…than any Roman emperor did in his entire reign.” 8 Will Durant writes candidly,

      Compared with the persecution of heresy [by the Roman Catholic Church] …the persecution of Christians by [pagan] Romans…was a mild and humane procedure. 9

      The Inquisitions had been underway for centuries before the Reformation, and the massacre of true Christians (known variously as Albigenses, Bogomils, Brethren, Cathari, Hussites, Vaudois, and Waldenses) by the Roman Catholic Church had by then been underway for 1,000 years ! The tragic yet inspiring story of those who contended for the faith and remained true to Christ reads like a continuation of Hebrews 11.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:20am

      John Burwell

      I have Baptists, Congregationalist, Lutherans, Catholics & Buddhists in my family. First, none of them is planning, plotting or conspiring to round up the others. Second, clergy of many denominations meet regularly to discuss doctrinal differences. As my pastor says when their is a disagreement one or both parties may be in err. One day their won’t be denominations. I think that day will come about much sooner if their less finger pointing. I know that military chaplains from various denominations get together & discuss differences over a beer. They defend their positions & yet have an agreeable discussion.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:02am

      John

      Yes I know that all Protestant denominations are considered heretical. I have read Canon Law.

      My civic concern is that Christians need to be less adversarial given that we are in a religions war. I recognize that non-Catholic Christians exist. I have been trying to set a conciliatory tone in my postings. I found myself PO’ed by many Protestant postings concerning our faith. I have prayed and reflected on my anger and have made the choice to defend the Church with good works rather than anger.

      My religious concern follows the Church’s doctrine in all matters.

      Thank you.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:15am

      Dismayed Veteran & SocialistSlayer, I’m a Southern Baptist and have no problem with Catholics. Neither do any of my friends from church.

      ,

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:32am

      @Socialist Slayer

      If the first paragraph is directed to me, I need to be clearer. I speak for myself. I would not presume to speak for all Catholics. All one has to do is read the comments on this posting to see the Catholic bashing. John Burwells’ comments are a mild example. I have chosen to no longer respond in anger. I never heard my parents make any comments about Protestants. In CCD, we learned to pray for the return of Protestants to the True Church, but it was not Protestant bashing. I first experienced Catholic bashing during JFK’s bid for President. This was followed by my experiences as a Catholic attending a Lutheran university from 1966-1970.

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:40am

    Year of changes. Southern Baptist Convention’s first Black President. First Morman President of the United States.

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  • dennisS
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:32am

    From the Blaze article earlier this week, this guy is nothing but an obama loving racist. Just another wolf in sheep’s clothing sent to lead ignorant people astray.

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    • grudgywoof
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:50am

      Hello Troll
      Just to let you know, I am a Christian first and I go to a Southern Baptist church. We Christians don‘t see skin color as an issue because we are all the same inside and we have a soul that is in our Father’s image. C.S. Lewis (he‘s a writer but most trolls don’t know that) once commented that we are souls……we have a body and that means that the body is a vessel which transports our souls from one place to another. Like cars we come in different colors, shapes and sizes but that’s the only difference. We have differing world views because that’s the way God set it up (the tower of Bable). Stop the hate Mr. Troll and I promise you will live a richer life.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:41am

      We really ought to analyze the troll traffic. It would tell us how desperate they are.

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  • lgccac
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:31am

    Why is skin color so important to some people?

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  • NewLife56
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:26am

    May the Lord guide you Rev. Fred, and keep you safe and May you heed the word of God. May your mission be a success my Brother in Christ.

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:19am

    I wish him all of the Lords blessings, however, I can’t help being a little sceptical here. Is this about membership or is this about trying to prove they are not racist. I guess we all have to make up our own minds on this one.

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  • BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:19am

    He will be great if he speaks Biblical truth without any regard for personal or financial consequences. Having the courage to stand for what God stands for in today’s world takes tremendous self-discipline and character. He will be tested.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:14am

    Go for Black… and change your Luck — Has not worked so far!

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  • blanco5
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:11am

    Why do we find it necessary to point that out?

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:06am

    I hope he’s better than the first black POTUS.

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    • BlazeGlory
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:23am

      Ditto. Unfortunately, I believe that too many Americans thought that nominating Obama was happening by the provenance of God.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:33am

      Maybe it was by the will of God BlazeGlory, as a rebuke.

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:45am

      BlazeGlory, I believe it was as a warning. Eyes had to opened and things changed because the time is short. So Many of us prayed, and at first I thought we didn’t pray enough, but then over the last almost three years much of the country started to wake up and hear some of the watchmen on the wall, and are paying heed to God’s words, understanding the evil in the world. Without Obama many would have not seen unti it was to late. This fine pastor seems to be a good man, I will pray for him, too.

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