Will Brunch has written an open letter to David Broder that expresses the deep disappointment that many Americans have with the mainstream media.
Bunch's anger with leading journalists reminds me of the extreme dissatisfaction that I have often felt toward the many myopic pastors, seminary professors and denominational executives who either aided, abetted or stood idly by as malicious Fundamentalists tookover the SBC.
Now that those same Fundamentalists have herded "values voters" to the polls to elect a crew of incompetent ideologues, led cheers for pre-emptive wars, publicly justified torture, championed the repeal of civil liberties and crusaded for Armageddon in the Middle East, no one dares to reflect on how different the world was when we had leaders who were trustworthy.
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I try not to romanticize the past. I remember having complaints during the Carter admin., for instance, and only after 12 years of Reagan-Bush did Carter's presidency seem wonderful. I had complaints (more than with Carter) during Clinton's regime.
But the last 6 years have been so very horrible that I even miss NIXON!
I was angry at all those who stood by and did nothing during the SBC feud, too, Bruce. But I try to keep from re-living it. The SBC has no hope for the foreseeable future. As progressive Baptists we should concentrate on building different kinds of Baptist movements and identity: saving the American Baptists from destruction by their fundamentalists; pushing the CBF to be more than an attempt to recreate the pre-1979 SBC on a smaller scale; pushing the Alliance of Baptists to grow; strengthening the BWA, the BJC, the BPFNA, etc.
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