So a onetime Baptist preacher is running a long shot campaign for the GOP nomination for president in a crowded field when a TV actor who admits he hardly ever goes to church joins the race. Which one does the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s single largest evangelical denomination, appear to get behind? You guessed it… Ethics Daily notes that the tone of an article by the Baptist Press, a news service affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, is much more generous than its coverage of Mike Huckabee, even though former pastor Huckabee once led the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. Baptist Press says Thompson’s entry to the race gives “social conservatives another top-tier choice,” for president, even though Thompson has withheld support for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and once lobbied for an abortion-rights group.
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