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Southern Baptists Support Gay Marriage, Hoax Claims
AP Photo/Susan Ragan, File
An elaborate hoax Tuesday claimed that the Southern Baptist Convention was on the verge of formally supporting "gay marriage" and repenting of its stance on homosexuality, and the hoax backed up the false claim with a press release, phone number and website.
The stunt was pulled off by a group calling itself the Center for Responsible Christian Living, but the group didn't identity itself until later in the day and only after one major Catholic blog had posted the release as legitimate.
The blog soon pulled it. No major media outlet reported the news as real. Several media members, in fact, called the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee to make sure officials knew of the hoax.
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Wright Re-elected Southern Baptist Convention President
Atlanta-area pastor Bryant Wright was elected to a second term as
president of the Southern Baptist Convention, defeating California
pastor Wiley Drake by a vote of 2,274-102 June 14 at the SBC annual
meeting in Phoenix.Wright, pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, was nominated to a second term by David Platt, senior pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala. Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., nominated himself.
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Messianic Jew shares Jesus with Arab youth
Jay* doesn't have flashbacks, but he does think often about the day he saw a neighborhood of fellow Israelis get gunned down around him.
"There were bullets flying over our heads," he said. "It was intense urban warfare."
He and fellow soldiers were pursuing the shooters from house to house as the wounded lay around him. A little boy got the first bullet. A little girl, fleeing into a tent set up for the Feast of Tabernacles, took one next and fell face forward into the tent.
Neither recovered.
"We had to clear all the houses and all the tents set up for the feast, just to make sure shooters weren't hiding in them," Jay recounted.
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