Paige Patterson
Posted on 12/30/2015 9:57:31 AM PST by Isara
Current and former leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention were reportedly in attendance for a two-day meeting in Texas to galvanize the Religious Right behind Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 presidential election.
A Southern Baptist Convention official gave positive reviews to a private gathering of roughly 300 pastors and faith leaders aimed at consolidating religious conservatives to support Sen. Ted Cruz in the upcoming Republican presidential primaries.
Paige Patterson |
"Great prayer meeting also for America," Patterson, co-founder of the SBC "conservative resurgence" in the 1980s and 1990s, tweeted Dec. 29.
Jerry Johnson, president and CEO of the National Religious Broadcasters and former administrator and professor at two SBC seminaries, said the candidate "articulated a clear constitutional case for religious liberty."
Few details have leaked about the gathering sponsored in part by author and activist David Barton. The meeting host, along with his brother Dan Wilks, has given $15 million to a super PAC backing Cruz in the 2016 election.
The Cisco meeting followed an earlier gathering Dec. 7 in Tysons Corner, Va., of several dozen conservative leaders brought together for a straw poll spearheaded by Family Research Council president Tony Perkins.
Convinced that Republicans lost in 2008 and 2012 because the moderates nominated by the Republican Party failed to galvanize the conservative base, Religious Right leaders voted five times before Cruz received the supermajority of votes needed to become the consensus candidate.
A Washington Post story about this week's meeting in Cisco reported that James Robison, a televangelist and former Southern Baptist, led a question-and-answer session with Cruz.
Attendees identified by the Post included Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary and former head of the SBC Ethics and Religious and Liberty Commission, and Voddie Baucham, a Southern Baptist evangelist and church planter who currently serves as pastor of preaching at Grace Family Baptist Church in Spring, Texas.
Cruz, a member of First Baptist Church in Houston, has criss-crossed the country with his father, Rafael Cruz, a 76-year-old pastor, to reach out to the faith community.
The Texas senator said in August that evangelical pastors are the GOP's best hope to win the White House in 2016.
Well this explains alot.
It would be great if we had leaders that had a deep conviction about what is right and what is wrong.
Hey why not? Everyone’s invited to the private closed door meetings at the Donor Ranch...There’s more than enough payoff $$ to go around for everyone.
Or leaders that had deep convictions that are rooted in 3000 years of judea-christian tradition, or at least thousands of years of human experience, and not the pop sh&% that passes for right and wrong today.
If America is going to come back, God will have to be involved. When we were a great country, God was there. Since God has been banished, we’ve sunk.
Cruz is a Southern Baptist. Doesn’t it makes sense that some of his allies would be Southern Baptists?
What does it explain?
I expect conservative evangelicals to rally to a Constitutional Christian conservative. It is good news but also expected. It is like Planned Parenthood backing Hillary -- it is a big duh! What is surprising when an evangelical like Phyllis Schlafly endorses another candidate.
Concise. You should use that graphic every time.
As wonderful as Ted Cruz is, he is still under the control of DONORS! Every hour he spends with moneyed people with personal agendas is an hour shaved off his soul. We need a clean break from the donor establishment.
You have evidence that’s what’s going on? Cruz donors are bad, but when Trump gives money to pols it’s just smart business.
It explains several seemingly critical comments one of the other candidates has made recently.
Yes. Then only billionaires can run.
the candidate "articulated a clear constitutional case for religious liberty."LOL! Will there be a check or direct deposit?
Never mind that the brilliant conservative "constitutionalist: had to be schooled by Trump and Levin on the unconstitutional anchor babies scam.
Only billionaires should run for political office.
The country may be sunk, but we must maintain until He comes! He has sent us his “Last Trump”, or more like a latter day Samson to bring down the pagan temple.
So you think that Cruz can run his campaign without money?
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Trump is the priest of Ashtoreth.
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