Updated Friday, Feb. 22, 2008

Covenant a sad day

It's a sad day when any Baptist organization has, as their main speaker, a convicted perjurer and multi-adulterer, even if he is a former president. Then to have the audacity to say that the church needs to stay out of politics, when this was nothing more than a Democratic rally prior to the primary, was absurd. I, too, agree that our churches need to show more diversity, but Jesus never accepted someone living in sin without trying to change them first. One good thing did come from this though: Now that Clinton and Carter have formed this "new" alliance, I feel much better about identifying myself as a Southern Baptist. Diversity, at the cost of doctrine, is a formula for failure.

Ron Aldridge

Pittsboro, N.C.