The Danbury Baptists wrote to him congratulating his election and objecting to the First Amendment.
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This year Baptists seemed to be ready to be ever so slightly more inclusive.
Dissatisfaction has been festering since the last time the Baptists met in San Antonio, in 1988.
Other Christian sects, including Baptists, Quakers and Mormons, faced official resistance, discrimination and worse for decades.
You have the Southern Baptists of there's more than half a million in the state.
Though hardly a fire-breather by the standards of Southern Baptists, Mr Warren holds old-fashioned views about homosexuality.
Southern Baptists also talk about tithing, although they are not nearly as organized about it as the Mormons.
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The poll also says only Baptists, Muslims and Hindus do not have a majority in favour of a change.
Episcopalians in Virginia would live amicably next to Catholics in Maryland, Quakers in Pennsylvania or Baptists in their midst.
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When President Jefferson wrote his famous letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Conn.
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Baptists and Bootleggers both supported Prohibition, but did so for very different reasons.
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Southern Baptists Against Clergy Tax Abuse (SBACTA) is not a real organization.
This year, the Baptists passed a resolution opposing hate-crimes legislation, because such measures could thwart Baptists from preaching against homosexuality.
The Southern Baptist Convention itself has acknowledged this problem by approving an optional alternative name last summer: Great Commission Baptists.
Both are Baptists who believe in "redemption and resurrection"--as Lott often reminds a wayward lawmaker whose vote he is seeking.
There are sites for Seventh-day Adventists, Mormons, Baptists, seniors, deaf singles and heavyset folks in the U.S. and several overseas markets.
Southern Baptists, the nation's largest Protestant group with about 16 million members, have been trying since the late 1950s to build a northern presence.
Like the Southern Baptists, the Assemblies of God considers homosexuality immoral and has urged the Boy Scouts not to lift the ban on gays.
Baptists pushed prohibition for the greater moral good (as they saw it), while Bootleggers supported it because they made their money on illegal booze.
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Witmer claims this movement is global and spans religious denominations: Catholics, Baptists, Pentecostals as well as Jewish and Muslim investors are all taking part.
When Lawrence, who was born in 1943 to devout white Southern Baptists, was enlisting in the Navy, he quizzed a buddy about the forms he was filling out.
Baptists could avoid liquor while Methodists could avoid gambling profits.
Thumma said Southern Baptists are drawing immigrants and new residents, but there's little proof they've reaching area lifers, including the large Roman Catholic population and increasing numbers of secularists.
Ms Henderson testified that she had helped Mr Lyons create a false list of convention members and sell it to an insurance company that wanted to market to Baptists.
The Rogerses were devout Southern Baptists, and in Hampton Alan mostly kept to himself and his Bible, occasionally picking buckets of pecans from a giant tree in the back yard.
Over the weekend, 10 Americans, a group of Southern Baptists, were detained by Haitian officials after trying to transport 33 children over the border to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
He and other religious dissenters, including Anne Hutchinson, had been banished from neighboring Massachusetts, the "shining city on a hill" where Catholics, Quakers and Baptists were banned under penalty of death.
Its contents cover the life and history of Baptists.
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