Baptists to weigh public-school exit plan

[Judi Lynn]

Baptists to weigh public-school exit plan
Staff and agencies
14 June, 2006

By TIM WHITMIRE, Associated Press Writer 40 minutes ago

GREENSBORO, N.C. - As concerns persist about how classrooms are handling subjects such as homosexuality and "intelligent design," some members of the nation‘s largest Protestant denomination want the Southern Baptist Convention to consider creating an exit strategy from public schools.

The group takes up the issue a day after it elected a new president, Frank Page. The 53-year-old pastor at First Baptist Church in Taylors, S.C., was supported primarily by younger pastors and others who felt marginalized by an older generation that led a conservative takeover of the church in the 1970s and 1980s.

"We are commanded biblically to train our children in the nurture of the Lord," said Roger Moran of Troy, Mo., who sits on the executive committee and offered the proposal with Texas author Bruce Shortt. "The public schools are no longer allowed ... to even acknowledge the God of the Bible."

"Everything that I believe as a Bible-believing Christian is not allowed to be taught in the public schools," he said.
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