This ongoing attempt by the SBC to get the message out there to everyone everywhere that it is a sin to drink alcohol at any time, in any place, for any reason, is one reason why I am REALLY glad that I am not a Baptist.
In response to this Wade Burleson is proposing a resolution that tea drinking should also be condemned as sinful.
This would be frightfully funny, except that I seem to recall that over a century ago evangelicals were using precisely the same arguments to condemn the drinking of tea and Coke. Many of these same prohibitions are preserved to this day in many quarters of Mormonism. [If anyone out there with a more thorough knowledge of American church history could back me up on this, or set me straight if I am wrong, that would be greatly appreciated.]
