BDW Endorses Bill Wagner For SBC President

Yea, right. But he does seem to be an improvement over his opponent - Frank Cox - who embodies what it means to be a Georgia Baptist Fundamentalist.

A few observations concerning Bill Wagner & his campaign to be the next President of the SBC.

1. Dude has his own campaign website (is that a first in Baptist Life?)

2. The website is NICE.

3. At the top of his resume, Wagner notes that his "health is excellent." Is that a slap in the face to former Presidential candidate Dr. Albert Mohler? Or perhaps Wagner is just conceding that he's John McCain old but yet healthy as a horse?

4. The fella wants to improve the image of the SBC. God knows they need it.

5. Wants to appoint more minorities to SBC boards. Amen. When your highest ranking African-American employee in Nashville is the head janitor - ya need a little diversity!

6. Wants to rebuild relationships with Baptist Conventions and leaders from around the world. This implies that those relationships were broken when SBC severed ties with the Baptist World Alliance. At least Wagner understands that Baptist isolationism is the Fundamentalist Way.

7. He has a blog.

8. Identifies "Homosexuals" as one of the six-fastest growing "World Movements." After pulling my chin off my keyboard, I remembered that this guy is indeed a Southern Baptist!