To understand the weight Chapman's statement may carry--he played a key role in the fundie takeover (or "steeplejacking," as Dogemperor puts it) of the SBC. He is president of the SBC's executive committee, the denomination's top administrative post. Bruce Shortt, a spokesman for Exodus Mandate, thinks that this could be the start of a wave of Southern Bapitsts pulling out of the public schools.
Now how successful such a project will be is an open question. After all, a significant number of younger born-agains with kids have abandoned the head-in-the-sand approach to raising them.
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