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National: A cease-and-desist warning against Christian evangelism arrives on congressional stationery | R. Albert Mohler

U.S. congressman Jim McDermott is a man on a religious mission. The Washington Democrat has thrown himself into a controversy over Southern Baptist prayer guides for the conversion of Hindus, and he has even put the weight of his congressional office behind his mission. But the congressman's mission is not what one might expect of a man who graduated in 1958 from the evangelical Wheaton College, whose slogan boasts "Since 1860, for Christ and His Kingdom."

Mr. McDermott, in an Oct. 28 "Dear Colleague" letter distributed to all 434 of his fellow House members, charged Southern Baptists with "an aggressive, intolerant approach" and "an intolerant view that has inflamed Hindu communities worldwide." Mr. McDermott's letter, sent on official congressional stationery, called on fellow House members to join his effort to urge Southern Baptists to "end your conversion campaign directed to members of the Hindu faith."