Friday, June 20, 2003

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Thursday condemned a Southern Baptist leader for comparing Judaism with a potentially "deadly tumor."

The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Al Mohler, made the comment during a June 16 speech to a meeting of the Southern Baptist Messianic Fellowship.

Mohler referred to Scripture as mandating Jewish conversion, saying the act of warning Jews about the danger of their beliefs is "the ultimate act of Christian love."...


--Washington Times/UPI

Conservatives such as Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Reynolds appointed themselves anti-Semitism cops in the run-up to the Iraq war. I'm sure this was out of genuine disgust at bigotry, and not because they wanted yet another stick with which to bash the anti-war movement, and therefore I'm equally sure that they will rush to denounce this vile remark by a conservative American cleric ... aren't you?

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