Pro-abortion organization holds awards dinner at Baptist church

                                                                                                                          Vol. XV, No. 3, March 2002

A prominent Baptist church in Louisville hosted an awards dinner 26 Jan. for a pro-abortion organization. About 130 people attended the Roe v. Wade Awards Dinner at Crescent Hill Baptist Church.

At the dinner the Religious Coalition For Reproductive Choice (RCRC) presented its top award to Beth Wilson, director of the Kentucky American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) Reproductive Freedom Project and a key abortion lobbyist to the state legislature. The event's featured speaker was Carol Kraemer, executive director of the pro-abortion, pro-homosexual Kentucky Fairness Campaign.

Recently, the Kentucky Fairness Campaign provided support to the Hate-Free Schools Coalition, an organization that trains students on how to start a Gay Straight Alliance Network chapter in Kentucky public and, in some cases, private schools. The Gay Straight Alliance is a youth-led organization that promotes the homosexual lifestyle in schools.

Baptist Press contacted Ronald Sisk, pastor of Crescent Hill, by telephone for comment. Sisk answered the phone, but terminated the call when asked about the dinner. Sisk did not return a subsequent phone call by BP.

In October 1999 Sisk told a Baptist/Jewish relations forum in Louisville, "I certainly don't believe that any one tradition has an exclusive corner on God," Sisk said. "I would never limit God's salvation to those who share my own perspective or my own understanding. I would respect the traditions of others, both Christian and non-Christian, for the truth which they reveal. I would say Christ's spirit operates in places where Christ is not named or known."

Sisk formerly served on the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) Coordinating Council. Crescent Hill is aligned with the American Baptist Churches and is listed on the CBF website among its "network" of churches. [BP]