SBC and Cancer Awareness Bible

An expensive decision, no doubt, but one in keeping with a fundamental moral stance against abortion and one with which I completely agree:

?A Bible published by the Southern Baptist Convention to raise awareness and money for breast cancer has been pulled from shelves in America after Christians complained that the charity it was backing supported abortion provider Planned Parenthood. The Southern Baptist Convention?s publishing arm released its cancer awareness Bible in October ?as a way to place God?s Word into the hands of those suffering through breast cancer?, it said, with $1 from each sale going to the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for breast health education, screening and treatment programmes. But after it discovered ?the overwhelming concern? that some of the foundation?s affiliates were donating funds to Planned Parenthood, the sexual healthcare and abortion provider, it made the decision to withdraw it.

And this is what LifeWay posted:

We made a mistake.

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, B&H Publishing Group released to several mass market retailers a Cancer Awareness Bible as a way to place God?s Word into the hands of those suffering through breast cancer. As part of the project, B&H agreed to donate $1 from the sale of each Bible to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for breast health education, screening and treatment programs.

As this project has developed, we realized it was a mistake.

When our leadership discovered the overwhelming concern that some of Komen?s affiliates were giving funds to Planned Parenthood, we began the arduous process of withdrawing this Bible from the market. Though we have assurances that Komen?s funds are used only for breast cancer screening and awareness, it is not in keeping with LifeWay?s core values to have even an indirect relationship with Planned Parenthood.

B&H?s mission to advance the gospel through distribution of God?s Word is unchanged, so we will continue to seek innovative ways that are in keeping with LifeWay?s core values.

Thom S. Rainer
President and CEO
LifeWay Christian Resources

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PatheosJesusCreed/~3/asCLrwW3eTM/

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