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Listen I don't have time for a proper intro on this but I did just want to get it started. The SBC is parting ways with the Republican Party and the current administration for reasons explained in this article.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... ar/563000/

What do you suppose are the chances that the LDS Church might follow suit? Why/why not?

In the past quarter century Southern Baptists have been awakening to their past sins of racism while simultaneously being pawns in the culture wars. All the cross-currents of the new wave of activists are pulling the convention back from lockstep with the GOP right.

I would imagine that the policy of separating children and parents at the border is only putting more pressure on the group to pull back having great allegiance to a party and more allegiance to morality, regardless of party.

Jersey Girl wrote:What do you suppose are the chances that the LDS Church might follow suit? Why/why not?

Per their usual timing, the Church will likely receive a revelation and disavow Trump's tactics about a decade after he is booted from office.

I'll believe it when I see this reflected in the election of 2020.

While the SBC may be leaving the extremes, the extremes aren't leaving.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-yea ... k?ref=home

From the article:

Three years to the day after the murder of nine black churchgoers by a Confederate enthusiast provoked a national reckoning with the symbols of the Old South, neo-Confederate ideology is alive and well in America.

It’s true, of course, that in the aftermath of the Dylann Roof massacre, two Deep South states; cities including Memphis and New Orleans; huge retailers like Amazon and Walmart — even NASCAR, the quintessentially Southern car racing association — removed or stopped trafficking in Confederate symbols. Some 110 monuments celebrating the Confederacy in public spaces came down in the same period, according to a new survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

But the most remarkable thing about that survey is how many remain — more than 1,700, and probably a good many more. Recent developments, moreover, including this month’s election primaries, show the resilience of neo-Confederate ideas.

Maksutov wrote:While the SBC may be leaving the extremes, the extremes aren't leaving.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-yea ... k?ref=home

From the article:

Three years to the day after the murder of nine black churchgoers by a Confederate enthusiast provoked a national reckoning with the symbols of the Old South, neo-Confederate ideology is alive and well in America.

It’s true, of course, that in the aftermath of the Dylann Roof massacre, two Deep South states; cities including Memphis and New Orleans; huge retailers like Amazon and Walmart — even NASCAR, the quintessentially Southern car racing association — removed or stopped trafficking in Confederate symbols. Some 110 monuments celebrating the Confederacy in public spaces came down in the same period, according to a new survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

But the most remarkable thing about that survey is how many remain — more than 1,700, and probably a good many more. Recent developments, moreover, including this month’s election primaries, show the resilience of neo-Confederate ideas.

Sickening. But yeah, I did just want to day that Southern Baptists are found all over the country, even up in Detroit--so not all in the South.

I was (and still am on record) a member of a SB Church before I became a "nothing".