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Richard Land Explains How to Tell Your Gay Friends They Can’t Join the Boy Scouts

Land is a full-on Southern-fried RWNJ; here’s a couple of his greatest hits, courtesy of his Wiki:

Land was the primary author of the Land letter, an open letter sent to President George W. Bush by leaders of the religious right in October 2002 which outlined a “just war” argument in support of the subsequent military invasion of Iraq.

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Land advocates for a fundamentalist biblical position on issues ranging from religious liberty to the economy when he appears on radio and television news programs. In 2005, Land was recognized as one of the “25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America” by Time Magazine.

Land has been appointed to a Board of Reference for the establishment of the Judge Paul Pressler School of Law in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana. The facility, which will stress the Creator God, inalienable rights, and original intent of the U.S. Constituiton, will be tied to Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville.[4]

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On the March 31, 2012 edition of Richard Land Live!, Land accused the Obama administration and civil rights leaders of using the Trayvon Martin case to deliberately stir up racial tension and “gin up the black vote” for Obama in the 2012 election. His comments were criticized by several black Southern Baptist pastors, who felt they reversed a long effort by the SBC to distance itself from a past history of racism. One of those pastors, Dwight McKissic, even announced he would introduce a resolution repudiating Land’s remarks.[6] However, Land refused to back down, saying that he would not “bow to the false god of political correctness.”[7] However, he subsequently wrote an open letter of apology for “any hurt or misunderstanding” that his words might have caused.[8]

On April 14, Baptist blogger Aaron Weaver discovered that Land’s commentary on the Martin case had been lifted almost verbatim and without attribution from a column written by Jeffrey Kuhner of the The Washington Times. According to Weaver, while Land included a link to the article in show notes that were posted online, he didn’t disclose that his commentary was based almost entirely on that column.[9] Weaver subsequently discovered that Land had also lifted material in previous broadcasts from other sources as well and passed them off as his own words.[10]

In response, the ERLC’s executive committee removed the entire archive of past broadcasts of Richard Land Live! and launched an internal investigation. It also expressed concern that Land’s comments about the Martin shooting “opened wounds from the past.”[11][12] The committee released the findings of its investigation on June 1. It reprimanded Land for using “hurtful, irresponsible, insensitive, and racially charged words” about the Martin case, and apologized to Martin’s family. It also found that Land had used “carelessness and poor judgment” in lifting material from other sources without attribution, calling it a case of clear plagiarism. However, it found no evidence that Land had plagiarized any of his written work. The committee also announced that Richard Land Live! would be canceled as soon as its contract with distributor Salem Radio Network allowed it to do so, saying that the show was “not congruent with the mission of the ERLC.”[13] The next day, Land announced on the weekly edition of Richard Land Live! that the show was leaving the air, effective immediately.[14]

Land was quick to praise the 2012 election of Fred Luter as the first African-American to preside over the Southern Baptist Convention.[15]