First Baptist Incorporated SBC Plano Texas

I recieved this from Dr. Bob Dreyfus, He is Chairmen of the Florida Arm of Exodus Mandate, (See link in the side bar) This was a Memo he sent out a little whle back.


"I assume that you have seen the story about the Plano, Texas, Independent School District attempting to ban children from bringing religiously themed gifts and to ban red and green napkins from the "holiday party."

Now, here is the hook. Plano is also the home of the Prestonwood Baptist Church. Prestonwood is an SBC megachurch pastored by Jack Graham. Jack Graham was the outgoing president of the SBC at the Annual Meeting held in in Indianapolis last summer at which a Christian Education Resolution was submitted. Graham opposed the resolution and made a number of dismissive comments about it in the press. In addition, many of the Baptists that we heard from who opposed what we were doing would tell us that their school districts are "different" - that their districts have good Christians in the schools, in the administration, and on the school board. We, of course, tried to point out that they were deluding themselves.

Now we have a comic opera example (banning red and green napkins!) of anti-Christian fanaticism in the schools serving the very area in which perhaps the largest and most powerful SBC church in Texas is located and pastored by the immediate past president of the SBC who opposed our attempt to warn Christian parents about government schools. Moreover, the schools in question are in exactly the sort of community in a Red state that we were repeatedly told had schools that were "different" and that were "Christian-friendly."

My view of the matter is this:

"The shameful behavior of the Plano I.S.D. conclusively demonstrates that Southern Baptists and other Christians who deny that government schools are aggressively anti-Christian are deluding themselves. We now have a comic opera example (banning red and green napkins!) of anti-Christian fanaticism in the schools serving the very area in which perhaps the largest and most powerful Southern Baptist church in Texas is located --- a church pastored by the immediate past president of the SBC who opposed attempts to warn Christian parents about government schools.

Our pastors and parents quite obviously have no real idea about what is really going on in these schools as the Plano incident proves. The question now is whether the Southern Baptist Convention's leadership is finally going to do what should have been done last summer - recommend to our brothers and sisters in Christ that we take our children out of Pharoah's schools."


Brother Bob... Quite well put!

Please forward to all your SBC Incorporated Friends.....

In Christ

The Preacher