{"id":18,"date":"2010-06-18T14:03:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/06\/southern-baptists-heart-gov-regulation.html"},"modified":"2010-06-18T14:03:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:03:58","slug":"southern-baptists-heart-gov-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/06\/southern-baptists-heart-gov-regulation.html","title":{"rendered":"Southern Baptists Heart Gov. Regulation!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So what’s up with the Southern Baptist Convention deciding to take a,
\nwell, pro-regulatory
\nstance <\/a>on the oil disaster in the Gulf? Just a week ago, Richard
\nLand, SBC public policy pooh-bah, was out there<\/a>
\ndefending BP and blaming “the environmental movement.” That was a far
\ncry from the SBC’s June 16 resolution calling on the government <\/p>\n

to
\nact determinatively and with undeterred resolve to end this crisis;
\nto fortify our coastal defenses; to ensure full corporate accountability
\nfor damages, clean-up and restoration; to ensure that government and
\nprivate industry are not again caught without planning for such
\npossibilities; and to promote future energy policies based on prudence,
\nconservation, accountability, and safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The SBC’s
\nresolutions committee chair is Southern Seminary dean Richard Moore, who
\nhas also been the Convention’s point man for climate change. Heretofore
\nhe’s been a vigorous opponent of things like the carbon tax, but he
\nhappens to hail from Biloxi, where the effects of BP’s mess are, shall
\nwe say, hard to ignore. Back on June 1, Moore wrote a blog
\npost<\/a> that reads, in part:<\/p>\n

\n

For too long, we
\nevangelical Christians have maintained an uneasy
\necological conscience. I include myself in this indictment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

We’ve had an inadequate view of human sin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Because we believe in free markets, we’ve acted as though
\nthis means
\nwe should trust corporations to protect the natural resources and
\nhabitats. But a laissez-faire view of government regulation of
\ncorporations is akin to the youth minister who lets the teenage girl and
\nboy sleep in the same sleeping bag at church camp because he “believes
\nin young people.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But is it just that Moore has seen
\nthe light of day in the black blobs of oil washing up on his native
\nshore? The SBC, desperate to attract young people to stem its ebbing
\nnumbers, may have come to the realization that the Gospel of Richard is
\nnot exactly advancing the Great Commission Resurgence. Hewing to
\ninerrancy and the other Baptist fundamentals doesn’t mean you have to
\nsign on to the entire GOP policy agenda. Could we be witnessing the
\nfirst cracks in the SBC’s Landian edifice? <\/p>\n

h\/t Peter Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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