Green Bootleggers and Baptists

It says the mildewed Methodists, Episcopalians, and Baptists are against me.

Politicians would adopt the Baptists pious rhetoric, while quietly taking campaign contributions from the criminals.

Indeed, the bootleggers and Baptists theory helps to account for other developments in global warming policy over the past decade or so.

The climate change Baptists provide the moral cover that politicians can use to sell regulation, along with scary stories that the media can use to attract readers or viewers.

Of course, in my travels I met people who legally divorced their children for being other than straight, but I also met people who were Southern Baptists who switched churches because their child was a lesbian.

This sort of behavior with activists and big energy companies uniting to applaud anything that suggests a need for increased subsidies to alternative energy was famously captured by the so called bootleggers and Baptists theory of politics.

The American Baptist Free Mission Society formed in 1843 in Boston when 17 Baptists led by William Henry Brisbane left their church to create a non racist, anti slavery evangelical group with missions to Haiti, Burma and Africa.