Southern Baptists decry white supremacy, call for 'moral character' in public officials
Southern Baptists have adopted a statement denouncing “alt-right white supremacy” as antithetical to the gospel.
The move on June 14 at the denomination’s annual meeting came after the Southern Baptist Convention’s Resolutions Committee declined to bring to a vote the previous day a Texas pastor’s proposed resolution condemning the alt-right movement, whose members include white supremacists.
The nearly 5,000 SBC delegates gathered at the Phoenix Convention Center agreed to “denounce and repudiate white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as a scheme of the devil,” reads the one-page statement distributed just before the last session of the two-day meeting.
