Op-Ed: Southern Baptists Grapple with Their Own Public Policy Entity on Abortion
THE WESTERN JOURNAL
When the Southern Baptists assemble in the coming days in Dallas, they will once more consider how they can oppose the murder of preborn babies in our nation. But in order to most effectively accomplish that task, they may have to disband the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, their own public policy arm, which has shockingly subverted efforts to end abortion.
Southern Baptists want to end abortion across the country. They correctly view preborn babies as image-bearers of God who should be protected by the same laws that protect born people. They have made this stance clear, and yet the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the institution Southern Baptists trust to wield their considerable influence in the public square, has not only been derelict in advancing that stance, but has consciously subverted that stance.