I blogged about this the night Huckabee made his statement. Rood is the only member of the media to contact me about my allegations and follow-up on the story.
Kudos to Justin Rood and ABC News. Even Associated Baptist Press, which should have comprehended the issues, dropped the ball on this one. Ethics Daily posted a story about my blog, but passed up an opportunity for follow-up with Alan Brehm.
Here's an excerpt from the ABC report quoting Alan Brehm:
Huckabee's explanation was "not what the statement said," Rev. Alan Brehm told ABC News. The only way Huckabee or anyone could sign the 1998 statement if they believed that husbands and wives should submit to each other, Brehm said, "would be to cross their fingers."
Brehm was a Southern Baptist theologan teaching at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1998, when the SBC adopted its new position on family and marriage. The school's leadership asked all instructors to sign a document saying they agreed with the new position, Brehm said. Believing the SBC's interpretation of the Bible was incorrect, Brehm refused to sign it.
When Brehm describes his position on marriage, it sounds remarkably close to Huckabee's explanation at last week's debate. The Bible advises "a mutual attitude of humility and respect for husband and wife," Brehm explained. But the SBC statement "said the husband is the head of the household."
Brehm said the school's leadership made clear the statement was not open to interpretation. Unwilling to sign a document claiming to believe something he didn't, Brehm resigned from the school. He is now a Presbyterian minister.
3 comments:
Bruce:
I left you a message this morning hoping you will take a look at Tnr.com's The Plank from yesterday about Huckabee's meeting in Columbia yesterday.
That may get at the heart of some of your suspicions about Huckabee.
Even so, Jim Evans has the best line of thought on the conflation of Huckabee and Mohler this morning at ed.com; though H Bee is never mentioned.
I am trying to get at it at baptistlife.com on the Memphis Declaration.
Please join that discussion there; and love to see what you think about The Plank.
Sfox
Oh, at Bl.com check the SBC Trends site for the link on Land's Cultural Center at SWBTS.
Looks like a Right wing video on church state relations is available on DVD. Check on it. I'm not sure what to make of it yet.
Bruce,
You seemed to be obsessed with Huckabee. I've checked your lastest articles and you can't keep from writing about him. How come none of the democratic candidates command such attention? Are you afraid of Huckabee?
As for the 2000 BF&M and the Family Amendment, everyone knows by now of you fixation with the supposed wrongs of both documents. Even though we quoted the Scriptures right out of the text, you have shown your true view of the sacred text. So, continue to complain about the spots in the Bible that are not inspired and then pick the spots for us. Meanwhile, I will continue to preach the inerrant and infallible Word of God to people desperate for the truth!
There is nothing in the least surprising in a Baptist discussing the views of a Baptist running for the Presidential nomination of God's party.
Huckabee is a former Baptist pastor who treats the Bible like a cafeteria of thoughts. He likes some of them; he passes a number of them by; he submerges some of them with an overdose of condiments (southern culture).
Preaching that the Bible is the "inerrant and infallible" Word of God is incompatible with preaching the truth. For example, the author of Matthew clearly rejected the notion that the author of Mark was writting infallibly or inerrantly--that is because he changed what is written in Mark. The same goes for the author of Luke, who also changed what is in Mark. Then Matthew and Luke offer us clearly incompatible accounts of Jesus' birth and geneology.
Mr. Paslay you need to actually study the Bible with an open mind! You need to examine the history of the development of the Bible. You need to study the scholarly textual analysis of the Bible. It does not matter where you have studied, or what degrees you may have earned heretofore, you are advocating absolutely indefensible positions.
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