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Over on the Spectator main page today, Shawn Macomber shrinks the latest brainstorm from our genius 39th president. I usually avoid longish excerpts, but this time it can't be helped:

Jimmy Carter can't understand why the Southern Baptist Convention turned down an invitation to participate in his Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant gala in Atlanta this week. At a Sunday school class I attended in Plains, Georgia last month, Carter described the gathering as merely an effort to "bind" Baptists together "in the spirit of serving Christ without recrimination and without animosity and without criticizing each other."

Who could be opposed to that? More to the point, who doesn't want to meet John Grisham? [more...]