(Rainier Ehrhardt/AP)The Southern Baptist Convention, once founded as a pro-slavery denomination that aligned itself with the Confederacy, voted Tuesday to condemn the Civil War battle flag of the South. Protesters hold a sign during a rally to take down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina statehouse in June 2015. Moore said that voters took out a reference to the sense of family history that leads some people to fly the Confederate flag. Instead, when the resolution came up for a vote, attendees at the meeting amended the words to make it stronger. And where the resolution committee proposed a draft asking that Southern Baptists “limit” use of the flag and “consider” outright removal, the whole group amended that.

Source: Washington Post June 15, 2016 09:56 UTC