Now We Really Know How the Left Played the Southern Baptist Convention

Innuendo, “whispers,” and “abundant suspicions”, but essentially no evidence — plus an "investigation" that investigated nothing — demonized innocent people to pull off a giant power grab.

A crowd of 21,500 attendees at the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville.

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by Mark Tapscott
May 17, 2026

Early in my newsroom career, my mentor, an old-school journalist and son of an Arkansas Methodist circuit preacher, taught me the most basic and essential lesson of credible news reporting, editing and analysis: “Get It First, But First Get It Right.”

Sadly, that rule is mostly forgotten in the Establishment Mainstream Media (MSM) these days, replaced by the endless manufacture of Leftist narratives intended to shape public understanding of events, policies, institutions, movements, and people in the public eye.

This dominant narrative that underlies and thus frames the vast majority of what passes for journalism in the MSM’s news and analysis precincts can be summarized thusly: America was founded on and remains forever a product of an enduringly virulent brand of White Racism. The country is thus epito…