Plagiarism’s always funnier when moralizing scolds do it, and the joke doesn’t get any better than career copyist Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. His barking denunciations – via a radio show – of our degeneracy turn out, some of them, to have been lifted from other writers.
Usually a man of many words, Land has responded to the revelation of his immorality very very pithily.
“I apologize. And we’re going to move on.”
Nothing to see here! Move along!
But some are calling for his resignation. They seem to be embarrassed.
April 17th, 2012 at 2:36PM
I’m a member of a Southern Baptist church, but, unlike Land, I’m not a Fundamentalist.
Yes, he is an embarrassment, but whoever replaces him will probably be worse.
May 20th, 2012 at 4:53AM
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