> <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=20&u=/ap/southern_baptists>
>
> The Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday to quit the Baptist
> World Alliance following complaints that some members of the loose,
> global association had adopted liberal theology and "anti-American"
> thinking.
>
> The SBC is the world's largest Baptist denomination and America's
> largest Protestant body, with 16.3 million members. It helped launch
> the alliance 99 years ago and was a strong supporter before shifting
> toward strict conservatism a quarter-century ago.
>
The main reason for the founding of Southern Baptism as its own denomination was to reconcile chattel slavery with Christianity. (See http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/sbaptists.html)
--tim f-w