On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led
by Muslim
Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of
religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.
The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist
leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered
by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and
Religious Liberty Commission as an
advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.