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(In yesterday's Death Without Missed Dinner Extra, I foolishly wrote "Use the time to contemplate how your fellow Baptists have been on the wrong side of every social policy from the civil-rights movement to gay rights with a stop-off to support the Vietnam War."
Southern Baptists explain how marriage ought to work and Cardinal O'Connor of New York, never shy about his inside line on which political candidates will be going to hell, wants no Major League Baseball games on Good Friday (or at least not between noon and 3 p.m.) and no Little Leaguers missing church for ball.
Many of his neighbors were devout Baptists despite running the resort town's illegal gambling industry--the largest in the South.
Wilson points out the shakiness of the Southern Baptists' biblical justification for their recently announced doctrine that wives should "graciously submit" to their husbands.
(Frum doesn't much care for the showy and evangelistic Baptists who displaced the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians.)