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Friday, January 20, 2006

Southern Baptist Convention: We’re Not Supporting Rev. Hutcherson’s Boycott

Posted by on January 20 at 13:15 PM

The list of incorrect things that Rev. Hutcherson told the AP keeps growing. Jill Martin, spokeswoman for the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, tells me that the SBC is not backing Rev. Hutcherson.

“We have no record of the SBC having a position on the boycott,” she says.

Again, that’s not what Rev. Hutcherson told the Associated Press:

Hutcherson said he has the support of several national organizations, including the Family Research Council, Southern Baptist Convention and Focus on the Family. Several of those organizations’ offices could not be reached after hours Monday.

I asked Martin why Rev. Hutcherson would have told the AP that the Southern Baptist Convention was backing him when it wasn’t.

I don’t know,” she told me. “I think that you need to talk to Pastor Hutcherson and his church about his comments.”