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br> -- Garry Greenwood br> Gearhart, Oregon /p> p> Paul Chesser needs to know that, although the people issuing this statement were Southern Baptists, the Southern Baptist Convention did not issue this statement. If Chesser wishes to know the position of the Convention at large, he ought to peruse the resolution we adopted just nine months ago on the same topic. The statement in the recent news was merely the reaction of a disgruntled few to the earlier resolution. br> -- Bart Barber /p> p> Paul Chesser replies: br> Are Frank Page, Jack Graham, and Daniel Akin, among many other current and past leaders, "disgruntled"? These top figures in the SBC certainly knew the will of the Convention at large and yet they signed on to the SBECI anyway, showing utter disregard for the will of the voting messengers. Surely by doing so they knew they would give the impression (especially with the media and outsiders) that the SBC backed the initiative, or at a minimum, would create controversy among their brethren. That's why the overall SBC should have just left the issue alone. /p> p> GERRY CONTRARY br> Re: George Neumayr's

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