美国国家公共电台 NPR Southern Baptist Convention Votes To Condemn White Supremacy

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After showing some reluctance¹, the nation's largest Protestant denomination² is taking a stand against white nationalism after all. NPR's Nathan Rott reports on the Southern Baptist Convention.

NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE³: The controversy⁴ started when Dwight McKissic, a black pastor⁵ from Texas, proposed a resolution to the Southern Baptist Convention condemning⁶ the alt-right and white supremacists. The text of his version was strong, too strong for the taste of the resolutions committee.

Earlier this week, it declined to forward the resolution for a vote, and the backlash was quick. Barrett Duke, the chairman of the resolutions committee, apologized to the roughly 5,000 Southern Baptists at their annual meeting in Phoenix⁷ before bringing an amended⁸ version of the proposal to a vote.

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BARRETT DUKE: Please know it wasn't because we don't share your abhorrence⁹ of racism¹⁰ and especially the particularly vicious form of racism that has manifested itself in the alt-right movement. We do share your abhorrence.

TRILLIA NEWBELL: Was I hurt? Absolutely. Was I discouraged? Yes.

ROTT: Trillia Newbell is with the denomination's Ethics¹¹ & Religious Liberty Commission. She's also African-American.

NEWBELL: I think it's important that we take every opportunity to denounce and set ourselves apart from anything that is racist¹² or that alienates¹³ our brothers and sisters in Christ who are people of color.

ROTT: She says that's especially true given Baptist history of division over slavery. The amended version doled¹⁴ some of the original resolution's language. The earlier text targeted, quote, "the retrograde ideologies¹⁵, xenophobic biases¹⁶ and racial bigotries of the so-called alt-right," unquote.

The edited version decried¹⁷, quote, "white supremacy¹⁸ and every form of racial and ethnic¹⁹ hatred²⁰ as of the devil." Voters approved that resolution overwhelmingly. Newbell says she was happy to see it but adds the denomination has a long ways to go. Nathan Rott, NPR News.