`Predatory' ministers must go, group says

The Southern Baptists, the only major American denomination founded to avoid black people, are meeting in St. Louis and

passed a resolution asking spiritual leaders to hold each other accountable to "the highest standards of Christian moral practice," and for seminaries to emphasize integrity in the training of ministers, missionaries and educators.

I find that my standards of Christian moral practice are fundamentally (ha!) different from those of the Southern Baptist Convention. For instance, I don't think veiled attacks on another denomination are particularly moral. I certainly don't agree with the out-and-out anti-Islamic tone of the convention. Or the bit where they called on their followers to pray that all countries convert to Christianity because it's the only answer to terrorism. Which would come as a great surprise to the IRA, or the Basque separatists. Or Eric Robert Rudolph and Terry Nichols, for that matter.