“Our finest Baptist universities were founded by more progressive Baptists, who believed that religion and ignorance were a dangerous combination, and who therefore advocated for places where students would grow both spiritually and intellectually as they learned to pursue discovery, solve problems and think for themselves.”
Bill Underwood
President of Mercer University in Macon, Ga. (ABP)
“Human beings are not for sale in Texas.”
Suzii Paynter
Executive director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, articulating the message of the first state law in the nation to provide assistance to domestic human trafficking victims (BGCT)
“When budgets get tight, expanding gambling always looks to lawmakers like the perfect quick-fix solution. But in the end, it so often proves to be neither quick nor a fix.”
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John Kindt
Professor of business and legal policy at the University of Illinois, who studies the impact of state-sponsored gambling (New York Times)
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