SBC is the religious wing of the Republican Party

TV reporter, Bill Moyers, observed in his documentary on Southern Baptists that their annual meetings looked like a Republican precinct party. According to The Nation, Richard Land, long time head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics Commission, wears GOP suspenders and White House cuff links. According to a former staff member, his office contains more Republican memorabilia than religious symbols.

Robert Parkham, head of the Baptist Center for Ethics, said in the Nashville Tennessean, "when the Southern Baptist Convention walks like a right-wing Republican and talks like a right-wing Republican, one can only conclude it is a critical religious constituency of the Republican Party".

Auburn history professor, Wayne Flynt, claims that the SBC is now the religious wing of the Republican Party.

All of which brings into serious question the tax exempt status of the Southern Baptist Convention.