Southern Baptists vs. Mormons

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Slate has a very interesting history of the “rivalry” between the Southern Baptist Convention and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Of course, the article strains to find some “extra meaning” in the current Romney/Huckabee conflict but it’s an interesting and a fair look that recognizes that if there is any conflict between the churches, it’s coming from the Baptists.

• “This isn’t the first time a Southern Baptist and a Mormon have battled for the White House—Mo Udall was a nonpracticing Mormon when he ran against Baptist Jimmy Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976. “
• “In the early 1980s, Southern Baptist Convention leaders discovered—much to their horror—that 40 percent of Mormonism’s 217,000 converts in 1980 came from Baptist backgrounds.”
• “The Mormon Church has met efforts from the SBC and other evangelical groups with silence. While it maintains its claim as ‘the only true and living church,’ the denomination has avoided targeting specific faiths in the way it has so often found itself in others’ crosshairs.”

It ends with a hopeful note that the SBC may not be completely opposed to Mitt Romney, even if he belongs to a “cult”, which is “a false religion”, and his election may benefit the Church.  That’s progress, I guess.