Producer's Desk — politics

“… when combating legitimately dangerous policy, let us be informed on the issue and ask reasoned and revealing questions of our elected representatives. Their answers–or in many cases their lack of answers–will make our case before the American people.”

Read my complete post @ ERLC.com

On Friday morning, Robert Parham posted an article titled SBC More Partisan than Senators on Sotomayor slandering the ERLC and the SBC. (It has since been retitled sometime after Richard Land posted his response.)

You will find Richard Land’s response, Sotomayor, the ERLC, Parham and the Facts here.

On Sotomayor ideology

• Executive Summary
• Sotomayor Fact Sheet

Health Care

• Free Our Health Care Petition
• Guest bio: John Goodman

Church & State

• Guest: Erwin Lutzer’s website
• Book: Is God on America’s Side?: The Surprising Answer and How It Affects Our Future - Erwin Lutzer
• Hitlers Cross - Erwin Lutzer
• Slandering Jesus: Six Lies People Tell about the Man Who Said He Was God - Erwin Lutzer
• Is God on America’s Side? audio interview CD - For Faith & Family

From 1994: 5500+ Words on why the killing of abortion providers is unbiblical, unchristian and un-American. (Also available in PDF 324 KB)

Related current articles:

• On the Murder of Dr. George Tiller - Richard Land
• SBC spokesman disavows statements by former second VP - ABP

“[Wiley] Drake said June 2 on “The Alan Colmes Show” that he is praying “imprecatory prayer” — reciting as prayer Psalms containing curses or prayers for punishment on enemies of the psalmist — against President Obama… [Sing] Oldham told Associated Baptist Press that Drake is not a spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention and his comments do not reflect the actions, resolutions or positions of the denomination.”

• RELATED - Washington Post

“Wiley Drake is far out of the mainstream, in fact he’s in a drainage ditch somewhere,” Land said.

The attached (PDF) is a summary of remarks by Dr. Richard Land to Mega Metro Pastor’s Conference – Colorado Springs, CO – April 21, 2009. It is rough and subject to change.

PRESIDENT OBAMA’s CHANGES

Less than 100 days into term in the nation’s highest office, President Obama has already made sweeping changes to policies that bear direct impact on Christians. In many instances, these changes have been to the detriment of families who hold biblical values dear. President Obama has made such changes in at least four broad areas…

Read the complete summary… (152 KB PDF)

• 10 Fast Facts on the Administration’s FY 2010 Budget - John Boehner
• Who Pays Income Taxes? See Who Pays What - Nat’l Taxpayers Union
• Obama’s Intelligence Choice - Gabriel Schoenfeld
• Obama’s Bush Vindication
• Brothers at War - Executive Producer Gary Sinise
• Taking Chance - HBO, Kevin Bacon
• Secretly ending welfare reform - Robert Rector

From my latest column at ERLC.com:

Shortly after Election Day, I released an open letter to President-elect Barack Obama in which I told the new president that I would pray for him, his family and his administration, noting that I would pray that God would bless him with “safety, health and all spiritual blessings.”

What prompted my promise to pray for the president-elect?

Read the complete column…

This interview with Richard Land from Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News and World Report:

Interview: Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land on Obama Transition Team’s Religious Outreach Offensive

“For my story today on the Obama transition team reaching out actively to religious groups as it crafts a policy agenda and prepares to set up its own version of the Bush White House’s Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, I wanted to know if conservative religious groups were receiving the same red-carpet treatment as their faith-based counterparts on the left. So, I called Richard Land, president of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest evangelical denomination. Here’s our interview…”

Read the complete interview…

Richard’s thoughts on on the Warren invocation:

“I’m encouraged that President-elect Obama would select Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration,” Land told Baptist Press. “First, it is a signal that President-elect Obama is going to employ a big-tent philosophy in his administration’s approach to people who may disagree with them on some issues, but not others. His selection of Rick Warren indicates that people who disagree with the president-elect on sanctity of life issues are not automatically persona non grata at the White House in an Obama administration. It also indicates that the president-elect is not buying the radical homosexual activists’ argument that anyone who opposes them on the gay marriage issue should be ostracized as a bigot.” - Richard Land