Dissatisfaction has been festering since the last time the Baptists met in San Antonio, in 1988.
When President Jefferson wrote his famous letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Conn.
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This year, the Baptists passed a resolution opposing hate-crimes legislation, because such measures could thwart Baptists from preaching against homosexuality.
Like the Southern Baptists, the Assemblies of God considers homosexuality immoral and has urged the Boy Scouts not to lift the ban on gays.
Of the major religious denominations which sponsor large numbers of Boy Scout units, the Southern Baptists have been among the most outspoken in urging the BSA to keep the ban on gays.
The Danbury Baptists wrote to him congratulating his election and objecting to the First Amendment.
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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, the nation's largest Protestant group with about 16 million members, have been trying since the late 1950s to build a northern presence.
The poll also says only Baptists, Muslims and Hindus do not have a majority in favour of a change.
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.
Its contents cover the life and history of Baptists.
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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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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.
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.
Well, people in the business will tell you, it's really nothing more than a kind of socially responsible investing program - essentially the same thing as what Methodists or Baptists or Lutherans or Catholics or Jews have.
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Among the most prominent of these are: Evangelical leaders such as Chuck Colson and Franklin Graham, top legislators, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, Episcopal and Catholic bishops, Southern Baptists, Jewish organizations and leaders and non- governmental organizations.
The modern party gets much of its intellectual energy from Jewish neo-conservatives, much of its organisational dynamism from Southern Baptists, and much of its social tone from the likes of Dennis Hastert, a former high-school wrestling coach.
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 also talk about tithing, although they are not nearly as organized about it as the Mormons.
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The Southern Baptist Convention itself has acknowledged this problem by approving an optional alternative name last summer: Great Commission Baptists.
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