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Posted on 09/27/2007 4:31:54 PM PDT by blogsforthompson.com
Here is audio of Southern Baptist Leader Richard Land speaking with Laura Ingraham about Fred Thompson and the recent attack on him by James Dobson. Land debunks the attack and sets the record straight. . . . .
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I heard Laura’s show today, & I’m certainly confused. A woman called in and said it’s in the Bible in Leviticus that tattoos should not be done, Laura talked to the woman, quoted the verse out of the Bible and then said, before this discussion today is over I’m going to be coming out in favor of Tattoos. Was that her way of saying that she’s against Christianity? It was just sooooo weird, the way the conversation went down. I hope Media Matters doesn’t catch her up in this, it wouldn’t sound good.
Laura is definitely a Christian and she is not afraid to talk about her faith.
You've got that all backwards and out of context.
I read on a blog today that Richard Land is THE spokesman for the Southern Baptists, is that true?
What is the proper way to characterize his statements? As his own, As a powerful leader within the SB, AS an official statement from the SB?
Is this as close as we will get to a hinted endorsement from the SB?
I would like to know as formal a classification as you can give me, so that when I use it in conversation I am being accurate.
Land is the head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty commission of the SBC. He’s something akin to the SBC’s lobbyist, although he wouldn’t like to use that word.
Southern Baptists do not endorse political candidates. If they were to do so, the messengers at the Annual Meeting would have to vote on it. According to good Baptist polity, Richard Land’s opinion is Richard Land’s opinion. He’s the guy we put in Washington to look out for our interests, but he doesn’t officially speak for our interests. In theory, Baptists do not have representatives- we elect or appoint people to perform certain tasks, but their opinions are their own.
Al Mohler, the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is another man who is frequently called upon to give Southern Baptist opinions before the press. But he doesn’t speak in an official capacity.
If there is anyone who is THE spokesman for the SBC, it’d be the president of the SBC, currently Frank Page. He’s the only one of the bunch that is directly elected by the Convention. But he’s not as famous as the other two.
It was a nice interview unfortunately the phone banks died and Lamb’s cell phone connection died.
It was a nice interview unfortunately the phone banks died and Lamb’s cell phone connection died.
What is your guess at what we are to hear from these strong Thompson defenses from Land.
I assume that there is a forced bipartisan code being spoken, can you translate it for us?
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Last I checked, the Apostolic Council (see the Acts of the Apostles), provided a very limited portion of the Mosaic Law for Christians to keep. I think, for Christians, no tattoos went the way of no eating pork and no linen-wool-blend clothing back in about 35 A.D.
Being pro-tattoo might be anti-Jewish, but it doesn’t sound anti-Christian to me. Indeed the Copts often have tattos of the Cross done on the back of their hands as a sign of their faith (and defiance against the Muslims).
I have always been taught that such things defiled the body which is the Temple of Christ.
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Mar 7:15 there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.
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Fine. :p
I still think most tattoos are trashy. (A discreet one on a military man isn’t so bad.)
The nazis tattooed concentration camp victims. Thanks, but no thanks.
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