“I think one of the problems is that for a long time evangelical Christianity, at the lay populist level, has had a narrow vision of religious liberty, because we haven’t had a lot of threats to it in a real sense,” Russell Moore, president of the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said in a Q&A podcast on the agency’s website.
Moore noted that makes his job harder in a couple of ways.
“You have some people who haven’t thought through that what our Baptist forebears were saying is right—that religious liberty is an image-of-God issue; it’s not a who-has-the-most-votes issue,” he said.
“That means we’re the people who ought to be saying the loudest ‘We don’t want the mayor and the city council to say that a mosque can’t be in our town,’” he said.
“The mayor and the city council that can say that is a mayor and a city council ... that has too much power. The government doesn’t decide that. We’ve got to be the people who are saying that.”
“And then secondly. we’ve had a lot of people who have cried wolf over situations,” he continued. “They’ve cried persecution when there is no persecution
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