Nelson A. Pryor: Guest Columnist
Paul Pressler, a former Houston Appeals Court Judge, spent decades helping conservatives to gain control of the Southern Baptist Convention. Judge Pressler was instrumental in building an internal grassroots movement, that, in recent decades, moved the denomination toward adopting theological and social positions that were strikingly more fundamental than those held in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. They include supporting the right to life, marriage between man and woman, the inerrancy of the Bible and traditional societal controls.