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'Good riddance': Top Baptist leader forced out by MAGA for not being 'aligned with Trump'
Source: Raw Story
August 1, 2025 8:59PM ET
On Thursday, July 31, Brent Leatherwood officially resigned from his position as president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC).
Leatherwood, in a press release, announced, "After nearly four years leading this institution, it is time to close this chapter of my life. It has been an honor to guide this Baptist organization in a way that has honored the Lord, served the churches of our Convention, and made this fallen world a little better."
Religion News Service's (RNS) Bob Smietana, reporting on Leatherwood's resignation, stresses that Leatherwood's last year at ERLC was "tumultuous" and that he was often criticized by supporters of President Donald Trump who resented the fact that he wasn't overtly MAGA.
"Leatherwood, who took office in 2022 after serving as interim leader for a year, is the third ERLC president in a row to step down under fire," Smietana explains. "Like his predecessor Russell Moore, who stepped down in 2021, Leatherwood was criticized for not being in line with President Donald Trump's MAGA agenda. Critics also say the agency has been out of touch with local churches and has become too liberal on issues such as immigration. Those critics had called for Leatherwood's resignation.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/maga-baptist/

no_hypocrisy
(52,733 posts)Same thing as not replacing Jesus with Donald Trump.
underpants
(192,325 posts)Ill see myself out.
gave birth to the Klan, and that says it all. Bigots all.
GiqueCee
(2,712 posts)We don't need no stinkin' ethics! They just get in the way.
BComplex
(9,517 posts)contradicted by the actual life of the guy they claim to worship. The MEN who wrote the bible came out of the very group (the authoritarians) who keep doing leaps further to the right all the time.
FakeNoose
(38,335 posts)Not that I'm a member of the Baptists, but still. I thought we Catholics were messed up, but I don't think something like this would ever happen in the Catholic church. Politics - especially MAGA politics - is ruining religions.
Paladin
(31,419 posts)No surprise, whatsoever.
patphil
(8,167 posts)As per Matthew 22:2, Jesus said:
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesars, and unto God the things that are Gods.
Looks like the Southern Baptists are stuck in the "render therefore unto Caesar" part of it.
Of course it could just mean that the Southern Baptist Convention now sees Trump as their god, since their ethics and religious liberty commission has been rendered unto MAGA.
LastDemocratInSC
(4,117 posts)whose pastors resigned because they couldn't keep their pants on when meeting certain members of their congregations. And within 2 miles is another church whose new pastor was the president of the Southern Baptist Convention for years but resigned due to same clothing malfunction that affected the other two pastors.
Baptists love salacious scandals. They are the only interesting things in that culture.
JHB
(37,809 posts)Supply-Side Jesus,
Macho Jesus With Guns, and
God the Trump
mwmisses4289
(1,917 posts)"...and made this fallen world a little better.", cracked me up. Considering the various sexual and pedophile scandals and complete lack of ethics many of the SB leaders have shown, it's mind blowing how little self reflection is in that statement.
Girard442
(6,741 posts)Farmer-Rick
(11,954 posts)You now have to be an idiot Trump supporter?
So you got to join the cult of the pedophiles in order to worship as a Southern Baptist now?
Geez, what kind of religion requires that you support a fascist Nazi in order to worship a god?
Just asking for a friend.
mwmisses4289
(1,917 posts)underpants
(192,325 posts)as well as the move to lower ages for marriage I know its a matter of degree but .
NJCher
(41,143 posts)Are in for a big surprise.
calimary
(87,497 posts)twodogsbarking
(15,184 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 2, 2025, 03:20 PM - Edit history (1)
but they were more explicit in the description.
Biophilic
(6,000 posts)The haters always find someone new to hate. Those who are jealous always find someone else to be jealous of. In the end there is nothing left except chaos.
ancianita
(41,441 posts)liberal, liberty, diversity, equity, inclusion and woke, and they would never have become who they are -- worshippers of wealth & power (mammon) thus weaponizers of anti-Jesus lies so that money & politics prey on weak wills and sick souls. They are of that darkness that Joe Biden has spoken of.
sakabatou
(45,219 posts)Marcuse
(8,634 posts)JT45242
(3,578 posts)The city was destroyed for mistreating the foreigner...period.
The twisted it to make it about gating gays.
They missed all the Jesus words about protecting the foreigners and wanderers.
The Southern Baptist denomination is now a cult like the Moonies.