Good News! ERLC President Brent Leatherwood Ousted From Role. Awesome!

Update! Leatherwood is back at the helm.

After less than two years on the job, the executive committee of the board of trustees for the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has announced that their terrible president, Brent Leatherwood, has been canned from the position, with a statement reading:

“In accordance with our bylaws, the executive committee has removed Brent Leatherwood as president. Further details, as well as plans for the transition, will be provided at our September board meeting. Until then, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees will assume directional responsibility for carrying out the ministry assignments for the ERLC.”  

This is fantastic news and it will serve as fodder for sweet dreams tonight.

The move comes months after Founder’s Ministries President Tom Ascol made a motion to abolish the ERLC, and just one day after Leatherwood regurgitated Democrat talking points regarding Biden’s announcement that he will not run, delusionally and deceitfully painting it as a “selfless” act when it is anything but. It’s unclear, however, what role this may have played in his ousting.

For his part, Leatherwood was frequently a target of abortion abolitionists and run-of-the-mill Southern Baptists, who saw the ERLC’s schizophrenic and hypocritical position on abortion as a rallying cry within the convention. In all the ways that matter, the ERLC exemplified the most watered-down, misguided, and milquetoast elements of the pro-life movement.

The ERLC has a long history of ideological opposition to abortion abolition, both under Leatherwood’s helm as well under that of his mentor and predecessor Russell Moore.

Under Leatherwood’s presidency, the ERLC hampered and sabotaged abortion abolitionists at every turn, throwing their resources and endorsements behind toothless or neutered legislation. At the same time, landmark abolitionist bills introduced by SBC senators and pastors were either ignored or actively opposed. 

At the 2021 SBC conference, President Bart Barber and the ERLC purposefully tried to stop a resolution to abolish abortion from happening, being thwarted only when it was taken to a floor vote and the elites were overruled.

Afterward, the ERLC started to cope and seethe, casting it aside in favor of incrementalist legislation.

Then, in Louisiana, when abolitionist lawmakers sought to pass a bill to abolish abortion prior to the overturning of Roe, the ERLC again spoke out against it. They released an open letter opposing the bill, disparaging it for going too far in its efforts to abolish abortion. They were ideologically joined with far-left women’s rights groups and Planned Parenthood, the apex predator of the baby-killing world, who also opposed the bill and unequivocally declared that they could not support it. 

With Leatherwood steering the ship, Planned Parenthood was pressuring its supporters to defeat the bill and the ERLC was doing the same thing, both pushing from different sides to attain the same goal. This was no mere one-off; it repeated itself in Missouri, where the ERLC likewise helped defeat the bill. 

Apart from being a partisan liberal who also tried to advance gun control through his organization, Leatherwood opposes abortion being made illegal without exception, along with the notion that all persons should receive equal justice under the law, the belief that men and women who kill their babies should be punished in some manner, and the suggestion that women who take their babies to an abortionist ghoul to receive the sanitized equivalent of three swift kicks to their soft skulls and then a curb stomp to squish the brains out really are murderers.

We are ecstatic that he is gone.

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