News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

As surely everyone now knows, John McCain has now tapped Sarah Palin, a former beauty queen turned Governor of Alaska, as his running mate. Several publications have referred to Palin as “America’s Hottest Governor.”
For weeks, the Southern Baptist Convention’s “Ethics” guru Dick Land has been pushing hard for McCain to pick Palin. Land [...]

Phil Gramm and I have a couple of things in common.
We both lived in Georgia, 100+ miles south of Atlanta to be precise, for well over a decade.
We both are University of Georgia alums.
-Gramm = Uga I era
-BDW = Uga VI era, RIP
North Campus guys.
I went the Poli Sci route and Gramm became an Econ [...]

If you don’t know Bobby Jindal, he’s the young, Indian-American, Republican Governor of Louisiana who has been touted as being on John McCain’s VP short list. For several months now there has been much speculation that Jindal will be John McCain’s choice for the Republican vice presidential nomination. This speculation was given [...]

 
John McCain sez: 
The Constitution Established the United States as a Christian Nation. 
And this man wants to be our next President? 
Apparently McCain is not familiar with the religion clauses of the First Amendment….

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” 
If I were John McCain, I’d steer clear of [...]

Greg Warner of the Associated Baptist Press has landed an exclusive interivew with John McCain’s pastor, Dan Yeary of North Phoenix Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona.
Here’s a snippet:
PHOENIX (ABP) — John McCain has a deep and personal Christian commitment despite his reluctance to speak publicly about it, according to the man the presumptive GOP presidential [...]

Statement From Dr. James Dobson As Delivered By Laura Ingraham On “The Laura Ingraham Show” (2/5/08):
 
“I’m deeply disappointed the Republican Party seems poised to select a nominee who did not support a Constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage, who voted for embryonic stem cell research to kill nascent human beings, who opposed tax [...]

Don Byrd of the Baptist Joint Committee’s Blog from the Capital has posted a collection of quotes from the recent Values Voter Summit hosted by the Family Research Council. Check it out.
Here’s a quote from John McCain:

My friends, if America stands for anything, it stands for the freedom to follow our own hearts, [...]

Yes. John McCain is a Baptist.
From the Associated Press:
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has long identified himself as an Episcopalian, said this weekend that he is a Baptist and has been for years. 
Campaigning in this conservative, predominantly Baptist state, McCain called himself a Baptist when speaking to reporters [...]