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Seven reasons Mike Stone ought not sue Russell Moore, October 25th, 2021.

Introduction

One of the developments of last week was that the politics of the Southern Baptist Convention

just got a little bit gotier.

In the recent election for the president of that August convention, you should recall that

Mike Stone and Al Moller were beat out by Ed Litten, who was almost immediately afterward

revealed to have had a big problem with Sermonic plagiarism.

One of the things that this late breaking news revealed is that the conservatives were

apparently doing little or no opposition research.

Litten has remained in his post despite this grave embarrassment because the forces insisting

on integrity and leadership only care about integrity and leadership when it suits them,

which is not very often and only to their right.

In the course of the campaigning for that position, it appears that Russell Moore was an

active player when it came to opposing Stone.

So now, Stone has sued Moore for three-quarters of a million clams, alleging that Moore's opposition

included defamation, which is the sort of thing that ought not be done, toward done.

You can get the basic facts about all of that here.

Now in that election, I thought that Stone was the way for our Southern Baptist friends

to go, but in the aftermath of that election, I do not think that this lawsuit is the way

to go.

That being the case, I thought that I should perhaps say a few things about it.

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