SBC's Richard Land is retiring, next October

Next October? Seriously, and having lost his radio show over racially charged remarks and plagiarism, the Southern Baptist Convention Ethics and Religious Liberty head Richard Land says that retirement will free him to consider other options.

He has experience Nazi-baiting Democratic officials, offering apologies and unapologies and then reneging on his promise to stop making such comparisons.

He has been ardent in his support for the Defense of Marriage Act, which is apparently unconstitutional.

Remember his doubletalk about sexual predators?

And he was closely identified with the 2010 Lie of the Year:

PolitiFact editors and reporters have chosen "government takeover of health care" as the 2010 Lie of the Year. Uttered by dozens of politicians and pundits, it played an important role in shaping public opinion about the health care plan and was a significant factor in the Democrats' shellacking in the November elections.

Land's resume for political perspicacity includes pushing the disastrous Sarah Palin toward the thereafter doomed John McCain presidential campaign.

It goes on and on. As it will apparently continue to.

Ethics Daily blasts Baptist Press exaggeration

Ethics Daily set out to correct Baptist Press overstatement of damage done Gaza Baptist Church in an Israeli air strike against a nearby structure.

Associated Baptist Press, a competitor of Baptist Press, seems to have had no trouble getting the story right.

The original Baptist Press version was a heady mix of opinion and exaggeration.

We found it enlightening to put the BP version up in a window beside the Ethics Daily analysis and read the two pieces side-by-side.

It seems to us that BP was well and properly shellacked.