SBC Elites snubbed the elected First Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention at a conference on racial reconciliation and Southern Baptists are upset.
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) is holding an online event February 23 called “Pursuing Unity: A Discussion of Racial Reconciliation Efforts and the SBC.”
The schedule includes disgraced plagiarist and unrepentant liar Ed Litton. It does not include Lee Brand.
The Conservative Baptist Network said in a statement, “Missing is Lee Brand, Jr., the only African American elected as an officer of the Convention by Southern Baptist messengers in 2021. Brand confirmed that he was not extended an invitation to participate in the Feb. 23 panel or included in any substantive leadership of the Convention thus far.”
The CBN then noted the hypocritical nature of platforming the white plagiarist and excluding the unimpeachable black man
“Southern Baptists are asking how they can take seriously claims that current SBC leadership genuinely seeks racial unity when they decline to include in ‘racial unity’ discussions the current first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the CBN said in a statement.
Previously, Brand said that SBC leaders including Ed Litton were ignoring him because he must be “the wrong sort of black man.”
So, why are SBC Elites platforming a disgraced plagiarist but snubbing Brand?
Maybe because Brand rejects Critical Race Theory and isn’t a favorite of MSNBC.
Brand prefers a more biblical brand of dealing with issues of race than secular analytical tools preferred by SBC Elites.
“If the sacrifice of Jesus Christ provides the only means of reconciliation between the Creator and the created, surely Christ’s sacrifice is the only real means of reconciliation among any two created people. All attempts at unity that do not begin with Christ start on faulty ground and will produce nothing of eternal significance,” said Dr. Lee Brand, Jr.
Brand doesn’t fit in with the ERLC’s race baiting.