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Winfred Mocere, -'Tool1
Of Liberals, Ehtterson Says
AWmm BzXKRCUND STORY
Bagist Press
5/17/85
LU-Bm, Terns (BP)--Inerrantist ledr Paige Patterson hs called Anrawillo, Telas
pstm Winfred Mome a "toal" a€ lihrals, acmrding to ~ssociatd
Press.
Moare will he mminated far ~esident a€ the 14.3-million mmbr Southern &Fist
Comtion next Jme at the annml meeting of the SBC. Ratterson, assdate -tar cd the
25,000-mmbr First Bagtist Church of Dallas, is supprting the reelection of the incurtbent,
Charles Stanley, pastor uf First Baptist Churd.1 in Atlanta.
" The Asdated Press story wted Fhtterson as describing Mocsre, pastor a€ the First
Bagtist Churd.1 of Amarillo and ~esident a€ the 2.4~llion member Bagist General. Comtion
of Terns, as a "tool1' ~ "liberals" sdh as Russell Dilday, president d Southwe&ern Baptist
Tkreolcgical Seminary in Fart Worth.
"I don't think he's a libral, but b's being used by them," Patterson reportedly told the
mngregation at Flet&er Eman~l Baptist Church in the southeast Tems town uf Lunberton.
During the May 12 meeting, Ebtterson also askd the peoge to ~ a for y the Southern &Fist
Camtion whi& blds its annual meeting Jme 11-13 in Dallas.
Mocnre, in a telephone intervim with ~ssociated
Press, defended his credentials. "The
people in Amarillo h 'w known me fa the p t 25 years md.d tell you that I wuld mt he
wed by anybdy and I don't intend to b?," he said.
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