Strong words from Richard Land

Quote of the Day: Southern Baptist Leader Richard Land

"I don't think the most damaging issue in this country is poverty, as important as the issue is. Yet not a single day has gone by in the last 32 years that I have not personally grieved and prayed for the 4,000 babies -- disproportionately African-American -- who have been aborted."

-- Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, speaking before the Trotter Group, an association of black columnists, at its annual meeting on Nov. 8 in Nashville, Tenn. He was quoted by Baptist Press.