{"id":130888,"date":"2016-06-16T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/baptists-call-for-an-end-to-displaying-the-confederate-flag.html"},"modified":"2016-06-16T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:25:05","slug":"baptists-call-for-an-end-to-displaying-the-confederate-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/baptists-call-for-an-end-to-displaying-the-confederate-flag.html","title":{"rendered":"Baptists call for an end to displaying the Confederate flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Baptist Convention has passed the following resolution:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;We call our brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ, including our African-American brothers and sisters.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I applaud their action.<\/p>\n<p>(The full resolution is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/erlc.com\/resource-library\/articles\/resolution-7-on-sensitivity-and-unity-regarding-the-confederate-battle-flag\">http:\/\/erlc.com\/resource-library\/articles\/resolution-7-on-sensitivity-and-unity-regarding-the-confederate-battle-flag<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/06\/15\/southern-baptist-convention-votes-to-condemn-confederate-battle-flag\/?utm_content=link&#038;utm_medium=website&#038;utm_source=fark'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/sv-BAUZ0Xas6eXP9ZEAgaSblr7XgjRSp1oCbO4eqkDxjoeoz5aBlZKVEf1sUnqP71wZvdSeZqm0BnpPFkowIVAjpJLhTpLJBtgxvEuT8p7yFtZPOP1t8__6WMtD2qTSY6xI8OnuVCfCc3Nhi7MB6zcs9EmkhZdbbUfcw1JuIHO96eKsZBhoqOfYkP-u5ajuDVacFqluFxDSYrV6G_MZgahWLq6JbaA10uk8=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/06\/15\/southern-baptist-convention-votes-to-condemn-confederate-battle-flag\/?utm_content=link&#038;utm_medium=website&#038;utm_source=fark'>Southern Baptist Convention votes to condemn Confederate battle flag<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;You can&#8217;t take something that is contaminated and make it innocent,&#8221; the pastor behind the resolution declared.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/3wAwDojnMnp'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Baptist Convention has passed the following resolution: &#39;We call our brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ, including our African-American brothers and sisters.&#39; I applaud their action. (The full resolution is here: http:\/\/erlc.com\/resource-library\/articles\/resolution-7-on-sensitivity-and-unity-regarding-the-confederate-battle-flag) Southern Baptist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/baptists-call-for-an-end-to-displaying-the-confederate-flag.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baptists call for an end to displaying the Confederate flag&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/a-confederate-flag-ban-too-far-i-think.html","url_meta":{"origin":130888,"position":0},"title":"A Confederate flag ban too far, I think","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Jul-15 5:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm hardly a fan of the Confederate battle flag, the country it represented, or the cause of slavery behind it. 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