The Religion Review website reports today (January 29, 2011) that a top leader of a Southern Baptist Convention has resigned from a new interfaith coalition, saying some fellow Southern Baptists felt it was inappropriate for him to support the building of mosques.
Richard Land, who heads the convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, told organizers at the Anti-Defamation League that "many Southern Baptists share my deep commitment to religious freedom and the right of Muslims to have places of worship."
At the same time, "they also feel that a Southern Baptist denominational leader filing suit to allow individual mosques to be built is 'a bridge too far.'"
The Anti-Defamation League formed the Interfaith Coalition on Mosques in September 2010, after it was widely criticized for opposing the construction of a mosque near ground zero in New York City.
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