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...local Internet service providers for use with broadband DSL. The Federal Communications Commission attempted to do the same during the middle of the decade to allow competition, but it had to back down from this practice after phone companies threatened to sue. Worse, the FCC and the courts allowed SBC to buy both AT&T and Bellsouth in 2005 and 2006, creating a huge monopoly that rivaled AT&T of the 1980s. Lack of competition in the U.S. broadband market has lead to huge profits for companies like Comcast and Verizon, making U.S. Internet not only slow but also among...
...most famous conversion in Christian history is that of Paul, who the Bible says "persecuted The [Christian] Way to death," before the "scales fell from his eyes" on the road to Damascus, and he became a Christian himself. Jonathan Merritt, a seminary student with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), is familiar with that paradigm. "I was an enemy of the environment," he says. "I approached it with disdain. And then I was sitting in a classroom and I felt like God spoke to me and put this idea in my heart." The idea - encapsulated in the "Southern Baptist Declaration...
That statement, in its context, is revolutionary. First, because it so clearly contradicts the SBC's 2007 position on global warming, which is a fairly blunt statement that climate change hasn't been proven. And secondly, because it has teeth: its 44 signatories include the current SBC president and two of his predecessors (one of whom happens to be Merritt's father, James) and the heads of three well-known Baptist-affiliated colleges and divinity schools. At a telephone news conference Monday, Republican Senator John Warner expressed solidarity and solicited support for his bill to reduce greenhouse gases...
Duke, whose office Merritt consulted as he was drafting the declaration, has refused to sign. ("The offer's still on the table," says Merritt cheerfully.) While Merritt's declaration supports government action on global warming, Duke says the delegates at last summer's yearly SBC meeting specifically struck language requesting that the government further investigate global warming and try to do more about it. Thus, Duke insists, Merritt's declaration was "at cross-purposes with the express will of a Southern Baptists-passed resolution and we couldn't support...
...step in a new direction of leadership in the SBC, the leaders of whose ultra-conservative "revolution" in the 1970s are now getting long in the tooth. Says James Merritt, Jonathan's father, "That certainly wasn't the motivation behind my son's doing it. But any institution that's going to survive, there has to be a passing of the baton to a new and younger generation, or else it will...