With God and statistics on his side
Stephen Bates
June 14, 2006 01:53 PM

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stephen_bates/2006/06/shoring_up_the_baptist_vote.html

Dr Richard Land is a confident sort of chap. He spent yesterday
reassuring his fellow Southern Baptists that despite the opinion polls
about George Bush's popularity ratings, conservatism is winning in the
US and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Sitting like a plump guru on a podium in the exhibition centre at the
Southern Baptists' Convention in Greensboro, North Carolina, Dr Land,
who is the head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the
lobbying arm of the denomination in Washington DC, was reassuring about
"the best president we will see in our lifetime". And, as he kept
reminding his audience, he frequently tells the president so.