Prominent Southern Baptist Convention leader visits Oklahoma City, speaks out on ground zero mosque, same-sex marriage debates and upcoming elections

 
BY CARLA HINTON
Published: August 20, 2010

A proposal to build a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, bombings is a question of good manners, and the debate- stirring push for legalized same-sex marriage likely will lead to a federal marriage amendment, a Baptist leader said Thursday in Oklahoma City .

Richard Land , president of the Southern Baptist Convention 's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission , also offered his views on such topics as ...


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