Lot of questions about recent Southern Baptist Convention election.
The SBC did a strange thing last week. It failed to elect the hand-picked conservative Rev. Ronnie Floyd to lead the group. Floyd, who runs Arkansas' 16,000 member First Baptist Church, a man who's spent lots of time on-air with Pat Robertson (especially during the run up to 2000) talkinga about how much America needed to elect Mr. Bush, had big-time support from the SBC leadership, the same people who brought the convention into the right, and into alignment with the Republican Party. An "insurgency" candidacy from a more liberal candidate stopped Floyd from taking control. It surprised him, and it suprised many liberal Southern Baptists who want to know if the change portends a like poltical change inside the SBC, and perhaps signifies some sort of disintigration of the party/church alliance that helped keep the President in office (or at least claimed value-voter responsibility for doing so. My first post -- go easy on me. I'm not sure how to answer this question, but I find it interesting. The guy also had a baptismal font for kids designed by a Disney designer -- it shoots confetti and sirens wail after each baptism -- that has apparently po'd some of his more conservative patrons on top of the SBC.