At Duke Curtis Freeman's friend Tim Tyson has been livid about these developments. New Yorker has an easily googled piece on Art Pope. bill Griday told Cecil Sherman the SBC fundies ouster of Randall Lolley in 87 was very significant.
Here is an upshot of fundy SBC takeover politics in N.C. Read the conversation between Brandt Ayers and Jimmy Carter in the Hal Crowther review in the summer issue of Oxford American magazine.
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/201 ... n/?hp&_r=0
A Brandt Ayers column. The Carter aside is in the Crowther review and in Ayers new book In Love with Defeat:
http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_s ... me_opinion
Also Google Winter: Impact of LQC Lamar Society