SBC officials reject Carter, unity talk, but not all Southern Baptists join chorus

By Greg Warner

ATLANTA -- Southern Baptist officials harshly rejected Jimmy Carter's effort to unite all Baptists in North America under a compassion agenda, calling the ambitious plan "voodoo ecumenism" and a thinly veiled Democratic strategy to woo values voters.

But other Southern Baptists, including some reform-minded younger conservatives, called the SBC response un-Christ-like and prejudicial criticism from "fundamentalist elites."

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