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Jimmy Carter: 'Losing My Religion For Equality'

This is a major turning point in the conversation between leading American patriots and their religious friends.

Carter has been a long and faithful member of the SBC / Southern Baptist Convention. Those right wing christers who frequently forget to separate church and state. Who have all the political leanings to the right and think nothing of it. To them it is dogma.

They are not to be confused with the ABC / The American Baptist Convention who can be quite liberal.

I played organ and led choir in an ABC church at one time and I can tell you they heard some new music and listened to some startling choral words. They were better than the Methodists who have now turned rightward when it came to the social gospel. My boss, a graduate of their seminary, Andover Newton, was a serious Chicago leftie. His politics. Not his pitching arm.

Those were good times.

We had some old timers in the choir and I respected their opinions. I was not averse to doing a rousing version of "The Old Rugged Cross" (I had a nifty modernized organ part and descant) and they enjoyed singing atonally and since often the words were actual scripture they got to "hear" their gospel from another direction.

The Southerners have long been a thorn in the side of American Protestant life. It is where many of the more objectionable evangelicals hail from.

This is quite a move. Earth shaking for those people.

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