While Southern Baptist minister, former member of the SBC Resolutions Committee, and past-chairman of the trustee board for Southeastern Seminary, Rev. Mark Harris, dries his tears after his son — a federal prosecutor in North Carolina — told state election officials the one-time pastor of FBC Charlotte had ignored warnings about a felon on his campaign staff, we thought it might be a good time to remind Southern Baptists of our own balloting irregularities during the 1979 annual meeting.
Then-registration secretary Lee Porter produced a report that uncovered serious flaws in the credentialing process at the historic convention in Houston, TX.
Click here to read the 1979 Porter Report on Messenger Registration irregularities.
The Baptist Blogger 
That is quite disturbing, on multiple levels. It puts a new slant on “the Spirit” guiding the Convention.