| December 13, 2006 | - Dr. Tony Campolo, a Baptist minister and professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University in Pennsylvania, said that evangelicals had been “very, very mean to the gay and lesbian community.”
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NYT
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| August 26, 2006 | - Katherine Harris, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Florida, told a Baptist newspaper that “if you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.”
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Washington Post
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| May 12, 2006 | - A Baptist church in Britain was planning to wash cars with baptismal-font water.
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BBC News
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| January 4, 2006 | - In Oklahoma City an anti-gay activist Baptist pastor and member of the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee was arrested after he propositioned a male undercover policeman for sex.
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Newsday.com
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| June 27, 2005 | - In Muncie, Indiana, a paraplegic man was on his way to Mount Zion Baptist Church when his motorized wheelchair became stuck on some train tracks. He was thrown ten yards and killed by a thirty-eight-car freight train.
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IndyStar
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| June 23, 2005 | - In Mississippi, Edgar Ray Killen, an eighty-year-old former Baptist preacher, was sentenced to sixty years in jail for organizing the killings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
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Reuters
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| May 6, 2005 | - A Baptist church in North Carolina booted out nine of its members for being Democrats.
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The News & Observer
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| March 11, 2005 | - A falling tree crushed the legs of Edgar Killen, a Mississippi
Baptist minister and Ku Klux Klansman currently facing trial for the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.
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Reuters
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| April 8, 2003 | -
The Southern Baptist Convention said that it has about 800 missionaries ready to deliver relief aid and the word of Jesus to the people of Iraq, and Samaritan's Purse, a group run by the Rev. Franklin Graham, who believes that Islam is evil and inherently violent, was preparing relief efforts as well.
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| January 7, 2003 | -
Three American Baptist missionaries were murdered by Islamic militants in Yemen.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
“I was concerned,” she said, “that the American public would be led to believe that my daughter is an atheist.” A Baptist minister and his twin brother were arrested for almost beating an 11-year-old boy to death for cheating in Bible study class.
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| January 30, 2001 | - Someone sent a letter filled with orange powder, which looked like anthrax, to the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, causing the evacuation of a building.
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