Word&Way: Cooperative Baptists Remember Historical Injustices, Confront Contemporary Ones

Similarly, Paul Raushenbush, president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, told of his own personal journey of faith and finding a slice of Christianity welcoming to everyone before urging people to advocate for those under attack today. An American Baptist minister, Raushenbush pressed the crowd to not let rights be taken away from him or others.

“We are living in dangerous times. The Southern Baptists just recently passed a resolution that essentially declares war on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ families like mine. Pride Flags in front of churches are being torn down all across the country,” he said. “All across the country there are bills attacking and attempting to erase trans people as well as normalizing violence and legalizing discrimination against LGBT communities. The current Administration with its so-called anti-Christian bias task force is relentlessly attacking any Christian group that is not in lockstep with an authoritarian White Christian Nationalist agenda. Our freedom of religion is under attack.”

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