Beale Memorial Baptist Church

This week the Southern Baptist Convention caught a bit of publicity that they may not like.  It seems that a religious magazine that is featured in their stores, Lifeway Christian Store, refused to display a magazine that featured five women as pastors.  I thought it was a little peculiar that they hid the magazine from their patrons, but were still selling it... 

A month or two ago a book called, "The Shack," was recommended to me.  I went to the store to pick it up and when I did, an employee came right out to me and handed me a note that gave me a theological review and warning about said book.  When I asked the reason for the unrequested information he responded that all employees were instructed to give this information to customers looking at this book.  How strange is that?

I understand that stores have the right to sell whatever it is they want to sell.  They have the right to not post or distribute offensive material.  But these two items were hardly inflamatory.  Check out Foxnews' take on the situation.

This is the cover.