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Conservative Baptist
noun
- a member of a Protestant denomination Conservative Baptist Association of America organized in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1948.
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In October 1984, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware was invited to address a conservative Baptist church near Wilmington as he campaigned for a third term.
But up until a year and a half ago, Johnson was a member of First Bossier in Bossier City, La., an ultra-conservative church in his hometown and a founding congregation of the Conservative Baptist Network.
Brad Jurkovich, the pastor at First Bossier and spokesman for the conservative Baptist group, has known Johnson since he became pastor in 2013, and said his former congregant’s belief in the Bible and that “God is real and the creator of life” has remained unwavering in the decade since.
At a breakfast this week hosted by one of the most influential new groups to rally their camp, the Conservative Baptist Network, founded in 2020, speakers urged attendees to vote against women in church leadership, and also to institute poll watching and voter mobilization programs at their churches for local and national elections.
But it’s the third year in a row that a candidate with ties to the Conservative Baptist Network, which has contended the denomination is in liberal drift, has come up short.
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