ADL to Southern Baptist Convention: Stop Efforts To Convert Jews

New York, NY, September 21, 2005…The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned as "insulting, disgraceful and dangerous" plans by leaders of Southern Baptist Convention – the nation's largest Protestant group - to consider forming a partnership with a Messianic Jewish group in order to missionize Jews in the United States and around the world. The League called on the Southern Baptist Convention to stop their efforts to convert Jews.

On September 20, the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention approved a proposal to study whether the SBC's North American and international mission boards should formally recognize the Southern Baptists Messianic Fellowship – a Messianic Jewish group – as "an evangelistic mission to Jewish people in the United States and throughout the world."

The executive committee's vote to recommend that the proposal be put on the agenda at next year's SBC annual convention follows the launching last year by the SBC of the Pasche Institute of Jewish Studies at Criswell College in Dallas, whose purpose is to teach Baptists leaders how to minister to Jews.

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: 

The idea of the Southern Baptist Convention using a so-called Jewish messianic group – which misrepresents two faiths – to target Jews for conversion is disgraceful, insulting and dangerous.   

We are outraged over the continuing efforts by the Southern Baptist Convention to target Jews for conversion, especially by considering 'deputizing' a Jewish Messianic group, part of a deceptive movement that falsely claims they are interested in Jewish practices when the real goal is to convert Jews to Christianity. These efforts should be stopped once and for all.

Together with the establishment last year of an institute aimed at teaching Baptist leaders how to minister to Jews, the Southern Baptist leadership continues to show its disrespect and disregard for the validity of Judaism and the Jewish people.

 

 

 

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CLAUDE, Yvette       26181 28 May 1999
CLAUDE, Yvette       40806 13 Jul 2000
CLAUDIA        18503 19 Dec 2004
CLAUDIA        24369 13 Mar 2005
CLODE, Bill     Minnie Freer 64259 14 Oct 2001
CLOTH, Amy Beth Living     9557 25 Sep 2004
CLOTH, Isabelle       2476 27 Dec 2003
CLOTH, Leah Living     38516 28 May 2000
  CLOTH, Martin Living     6555 29 Jan 2006
  CLOTT, Jeffery       10907 27 Dec 2003

CLOUD, ?     Thomas Johnson + ? ? 129170 07 Nov 2004
CLOUD, Mary Emma     John William + Maria Henderson 129170 07 Nov 2004
CLOUD, Mary Emma     John William + Maria Henderson 129170 07 Nov 2004

CLOUD, Norma Esther     Thomas Johnson + ? ? 129170 07 Nov 2004
CLOUD, Richard Living   William Robert + Sally Levine 6792 12 Jun 2005
CLOUD, Ruth     Thomas Johnson + ? ? 129170 07 Nov 2004

CLOUD, Thomas Johnson     John William + Maria Henderson 129170 07 Nov 2004
  CLOUD, William       83604 18 Apr 2004
CLOUD, William Robert Living     6792 12 Jun 2005
  CLOUD, William Webster       6400 23 Jan 2005
  CLOUDE        104451 24 Apr 2005
CLOUET, Lillian       70125 04 Dec 2005
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CLOUT, Friday Living   Xxx + Isabel Jane Clout 72798 24 Aug 2002

CLOUT, Isabel Jane Living   Ivan Reginald + Annie Evelyn Mygind 72798 24 Aug 2002
CLOUT, Ismena Living   Peter + Shirley Oscroft 72798 24 Aug 2002
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CLOUT, Peter Living   Ivan Reginald + Annie Evelyn Mygind 72798 24 Aug 2002

CLOUT, Rosalinde Living   Ivan Reginald + Annie Evelyn Mygind 72798 24 Aug 2002
CLOYD, Blank       17130 16 Oct 2005
CLOYD, Brant     Jonathan W. + Mary A. Cloyd 17130 16 Oct 2005

CLOYD, Jonathan W. Living   Blank + Mary Beth Robinson 17130 16 Oct 2005
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Jew Conversion Plan May Explain Arson Attacks, Media Spin
 News/Comment; Posted on: 2006-03-10 17:04:54 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
Did the ADL's hate-filled rhetoric inspire last month's Southern Baptist church-burning spree?

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA -- In September of 2005, ADL Führer Abraham Foxman issued a press release blasting Southern Baptists for planning a major campaign to convert Jews.

He wrote:

"The idea of the Southern Baptist Convention using a so-called Jewish messianic group -- which misrepresents two faiths -- to target Jews for conversion is disgraceful, insulting and dangerous.

"We are outraged over the continuing efforts by the Southern Baptist Convention to target Jews for conversion, especially by considering 'deputizing' a Jewish Messianic group, part of a deceptive movement that falsely claims they are interested in Jewish practices when the real goal is to convert Jews to Christianity. These efforts should be stopped once and for all.

"Together with the establishment last year of an institute aimed at teaching Baptist leaders how to minister to Jews, the Southern Baptist leadership continues to show its disrespect and disregard for the validity of Judaism and the Jewish people."

On Wednesday, Fox News reported that between February 3 and 11, ten churches -- all Southern Baptist -- were hit by arsonists. Five being destroyed and five damaged.

 

  • Ashby Baptist Church - Brierfield, Alabama (destroyed)
     
  • Rehobeth Baptist Church - Lawley, Alabama (destroyed)
     
  • Old Union Baptist Church - Brierfield (damaged)
     
  • Antioch Baptist Church - Antioch, Alabama (damaged)
     
  • Galilee Baptist Church - Panola, Alabama (destroyed)
     
  • Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church - Boligee, Alabama (destroyed)
     
  • Pleasant Sabine Baptist Church - Centreville, Alabama (destroyed)
     
  • Dancy First Baptist Church - Aliceville, Alabama (damaged)
     
  • Spring Valley Baptist Church - Emelle, Alabama (damaged)
     
  • Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church -Sulligent, Alabama (damaged)

    (According to Fox News, most of the fires appear to have been set in the sanctuary near the altar. Message of hate?)

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    Birmingham Jewish community

           
     


    Three close friends -- believed to be Jews -- were arrested Wednesday. Benjamin Nathan Moseley and Russell Lee Debusk Jr., both 19-year-old theater majors at Birmingham-Southern College, appeared in federal court and were ordered held without bond pending a hearing planned for Monday. Matthew Lee Cloyd, a 20-year-old pre-med junior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was also arrested.

    Birmingham-Southern College, with just 1,562 students, has been cited by numerous national publications as the best among southern liberal arts colleges and as one of the "best buys in higher education." Although it has no specific religious affiliation, in September of 2006, the Birmingham-Southern College Judaic Studies Fund arranged for more than one hundred area teachers to attended an all-day workshop on the "Holocaust."

    Birmingham has a very large Jewish community, which operates the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI), the Birmingham Holocaust Education Committee (BHEC), the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA), the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham (CAGB); the Birmingham Jewish Federation; the Hadassah Zionist Woman's Organization (HZWO); the Levite Jewish Community Theater; the Emanu-El synagogue; the Beth-El synagogue; the Miles Jewish Day School; the Birmingham Jewish Foundation; the Birmingham Interfaith Cultural Mission (BICM); and the above-mentioned Judaic Studies Fund at Birmingham-Southern College.

    In February the groups collaborated to cosponsor "The Holocaust: Remembrance and Reflection," a long-planned and advertised citywide series of propaganda programs featuring "art" exhibitions, concerts, films, speakers, and classroom instruction. Coincidentally, the church arsons took place at about the same time.

    		 
             




    No Harsh Words for Suspects

    Controlled media have formed a tight security zone around the suspects -- refusing to divulge their ethnic or religious backgrounds, while praising them as wonderful people and offering explanations on their behalf. This has contributed to speculation about the trio being homosexual.

    Lemmings are told that the arsons were a "joke that went too far" where "no racial pattern exists," and that "all were Baptist churches because that is the dominant faith in the region," and that Birmingham-Southern College is "Methodist-affiliated" -- hinting that the suspects are Christian.

    An adoring Birmingham News went so far as to characterize DeBusk as "a wonderful drama student, very enthusiastic, well behaved, talented, often the first to settle an argument between friends, a peacemaker," etc.

    The Birmingham News spin on Matthew Lee Cloyd included these words of praise: "By all accounts, Matthew Lee Cloyd was a scholar - an intelligent boy with a bright future in medicine, just like his father. He graduated... with honors and several advanced placement courses under his belt. He was in the National Honor Society and inducted into Mu Alpha Theta math society his junior year. He was voted Most Outstanding Student in History and was a member of Students Against Destructive Decisions." (Program aimed at keeping students from consuming alcoholic beverages prior to driving, and discouraging the use of drugs.)

    Today, the Associated Press issued a story in an apparent attempt to help the suspects by offering an explanation for their alleged serial arson spree: drinking and "warped bravado."

    "Three college students suspected of a string of Alabama church fires may have been out drinking when they began their spree. Throughout the month long investigation, authorities said alcohol could have led to a warped bravado that sparked the arsons, and initial interviews with the suspects bore out the theory, according to one officer," stated the AP article.

    This "drinking" story is running now, in hundreds of Jewish newspapers.

    The paper USA Today has nothing negative to say about the crimes or the suspects either, calling the three alleged serial arsonists "stars at school." The paper merely laments that the crime spree "derailed promising futures." They go on to describe the suspects in loving terms via interviews with friends and students, as if they had been taken hostage in Iraq.

    "Russ is just a goofy, fun-loving guy, almost like a cartoon character," said Jeremy Burgess, 19, DeBusk's roommate. "He's always nice, respectful and hardworking. He studied more than I did."

    However, this tidbit is also revealed:
     

     

     

     

     

     
    $1,000,000 to rebuild

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A coalition of organizations has launched a campaign to raise $1 million to help rebuild 10 rural Baptist churches damaged by arsonists.

    The joint effort involves the Alabama regional office of the National Conference for Community and Justice, Birmingham television station WBRC, AmSouth Bank and clergy from a wide range of religions faiths.

    "These fires are not just an attack on 10 rural churches," Lemarse Washington, executive director of the NCCJ's Alabama regional office, said. "Regardless of faith, or race, we are all pained when a house of worship is burned."

    Donations to the "Rebuild the Churches Fund," which will be administered by the NCCJ, are being accepted at all of AmSouth's 685 offices across the Southeast. AmSouth has made a corporate contribution of $5,000 and will match employee contributions. News reports have estimated that the uninsured costs of replacing the churches could reach $1 million.

    Birmingham area clergy including Ed Hurley, pastor of South Highland Presbyterian Church, are also helping lead the effort. South Highland has contributed $1,000 and the Birmingham Jewish Federation has previously contributed $2,000.

     

     

     

    Judge approves bond for suspects in Ala. church fires

    Associated Press
    Mar. 16, 2006 10:20 AM

     

     
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Three college students accused of setting fire to a string of rural churches can be released from jail on $50,000 bond each, provided they stay away from alcohol, cars and home computers, a judge ruled Thursday.

    In a brief order, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert R. Armstrong Jr. said all three suspects must live with their parents in what amounts to house arrest with electronic monitoring as they await trial.

    None of the three has a criminal record, and all come from "normal, stable, caring, working-parent homes," the judge said in approving bond.

    But, he wrote, all three are under 21 and "drink alcoholic beverages in amounts that would be excessive for adults."

    The judge rejected prosecutors' plea that the three remain jailed until trial.

    Benjamin N. Moseley and Russell L. DeBusk Jr., both 19, and Matthew L. Cloyd, 20, were arrested March 8 on charges of conspiracy and setting fire to one of nine small Baptist churches that burned in early February.

    Evidence indicates the fires began as a prank that went out of control on a night of drinking and hunting. Defense attorneys have said the fires were not crimes of hate.

    According to court documents, Cloyd told a witness that he and Moseley "had done something stupid" and that they set fire to a church "as a joke."
     



    The men torched five churches on Feb. 3 in Bibb County, south of Birmingham, according to the federal agent's sworn statement. According to the statement, Moseley told investigators he and Cloyd set four more fires in west Alabama four days later as a diversion.

    The judge ordered the three to avoid contact with each other and to attend any "supportive" mental health counseling recommended by probation officials. They also must undergo drug testing, Armstrong ruled.

    Meanwhile, a "service of grief and hope" over the fires and arrests was planned at Birmingham-Southern College, where Moseley and DeBusk are students. Both men have been suspended.

    Cloyd also attended the school before transferring to the University of Alabama at Birmingham last fall.
     

     

    'Missionary of Lucifer' Pleads Guilty to Church Burnings
    Indiana man confesses to more than 25 acts of arson.

    By Chris Herlinger | posted 12/6/00
     

    An Indiana man hostile to organized Christianity has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for arson attacks at more than two dozen U.S. churches in the mid- and late-1990s.

    Jay Scott Ballinger, 38, had confessed to attacks on more than 25 churches in at least eight states in the southern and Midwest United States. A self-described "missionary of Lucifer", Ballinger faces further charges for five church fires in Georgia.

    He was sentenced November 14 after pleading guilty in July to 20 counts of destroying church property. He was also ordered to pay $3.6 million in restitution.

    Ballinger's crimes were part of what was labeled a national epidemic of church fires in the 1990s. Hundreds of such fires were set, many of them at churches with mainly black congregations, leading to claims by the National Council of Churches (NCC) that they were racially motivated. Partly because of the NCC campaign, the attacks became a subject of intense discussion across the U.S., prompting expressions of concern by President Bill Clinton, and the establishment of the National Church Arson Task Force.

    Ballinger who is white, attacked both mainly black and mainly white churches. He carried out more acts of arson than any other church arsonist, authorities said.

    Also convicted in the case was Ballinger's girlfriend, Angela Wood, 25, who on November 16 was sentenced to almost 17 years in prison for acting as an accomplice. Earlier she told the court that Ballinger had beaten her, threatening her if she did not help him set the fires.

    Rose Johnson-Mackey, director of research and programs for the interdenominational advocacy group, National Coalition for Burned Churches, told ENI that her organization was pleased with the guilty plea. She praised the work of federal and state authorities. But she added there were unanswered questions about the case. She doubted that Ballinger and his girlfriend could have committed the crimes without assistance, given the wide geographic range of their targets. The churches targeted were spread across several states, from Indiana and Ohio in the Midwest, to Kentucky, Tennessee