The New Baptist Covenant meeting in Atlanta next year have decided to exclude two Baptist groups that are inclusive towards gays ...

The Same Old Exclusion | By Carlos | Jul 25, 2007 at 01:58:44 PM EST

The facilitators of the The New Baptist Covenant meeting in Atlanta next year have decided to exclude two Baptist groups that are inclusive towards gays. This highlights the delicate or insecure position of moderate or "common ground" Baptists as they try to find their own voice in response to the more vocal and public Christian Right Baptists. ...
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But Pennings said such an attitude betrays the purpose and name of the celebration itself. "This really is more like the Old Covenant than the New Covenant," he said July 23. "Why would we want to participate in this? There's nothing new about this; it's the same old exclusion."