Russell Moore’s legislative agenda for the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission parallels those of his predecessor Richard Land but leaves out concerns embraced by Land, viewed as a leader in the Religious Right.
Like Land, Moore’s legislative agenda for 2014 prioritizes abortion, gay marriage, religious-liberty concerns about Obamacare and immigration reform. But Moore, who says younger Baptists are turned off by partisan politics that energized groups like Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority in the 1980s, doesn’t include items on Land’s agenda in 2012 like welfare cuts, “administrative overreach” by the Obama White House and skepticism about the science of climate change.
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