{"id":2489719,"date":"2025-09-22T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/southern-baptist-entity-finally-announces-split-from-soros-backed-group\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:27:03","slug":"southern-baptist-entity-finally-announces-split-from-soros-backed-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/southern-baptist-entity-finally-announces-split-from-soros-backed-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Baptist Entity Finally Announces Split from Soros-Backed Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouthern-baptist-entity-finally-announces-split-from-soros-backed-group%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2489719&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The public policy division of the Southern Baptist Convention, known as the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), announced it will sever its partnership with the Evangelical Immigration Table, a group supported financially by far-left billionaire George Soros.Soros&#8217; Open Society Foundations funds nearly 38% of the budget for the National Immigration Forum, which created the Evangelical Immigration Table. Critics have accused these groups of trying to influence American churches toward more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-john-fetterman-torches-fellow-dems-live-on-cnn-questions-why-they-dont-care-about-the-border-crisis\/\" title=\"Sen. John Fetterman slams Dems on CNN, asks why they ignore border crisis\">progressive immigration policies<\/a>. ERLC acting president Miles Mullin stated the commission seeks a more autonomous approach to immigration issues. conservative leaders within the Southern Baptist community have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-white-house-repeatedly-entertained-lobbyists-for-tiktok\/\" title=\"Biden White House Repeatedly Entertained Lobbyists for TikTok\">long expressed concerns<\/a> about left-wing influences within their denomination&#8217;s public policy entities. The decision to break ties with the Soros-backed group was praised by conservative journalists and advocates as a notable victory in maintaining the denomination&#8217;s conservative stance.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention announced Wednesday that it would sever ties with an immigration group backed by far-left billionaire George Soros.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which is charged with representing the Southern Baptist Convention in the public square, will no longer partner with the Evangelical Immigration Table.<\/p>\n<p>Soros&rsquo; Open Society Foundations provides up to 38 percent of the budget for the National Immigration Forum, which is the group that launched the Evangelical Immigration Table.<\/p>\n<p>These groups aimed to influence American churches and push them toward more progressive views on immigration, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforbaptistleadership.org\/how-george-soros-uses-the-evangelical-immigration-table-the-erlc-to-influence-the-sbc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explainer<\/a> from the Center for Baptist Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The executive leadership of the ERLC, including acting president Miles Mullin, announced that the Southern Baptist entity will &ldquo;break ties&rdquo; with the Evangelical Immigration Table.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); 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<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YPJVfAW9Mo\">pic.twitter.com\/YPJVfAW9Mo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Center for Baptist Leadership (@BaptistLeaders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BaptistLeaders\/status\/1968371401942835673?\">September 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We feel we need to take a more independent posture on our immigration-related work,&rdquo; Mullin said, per an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baptistpress.com\/resource-library\/news\/erlc-trustees-call-interim-president-form-immigration-related-task-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> from Baptist Press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/conservative-journalist-megan-basham-quotes-classic-hymn-reveals-advanced-cancer-diagnosis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Megan Basham<\/a>, a journalist with the Daily Wire who has investigated ties between the ERLC and the Soros-backed group, celebrated the decision on social media following the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a major victory and a day for celebrating! Praise God!&rdquo; she wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#128680;&#128680;Southern Baptists, after nearly 15 years the ERLC has FINALLY announced they are breaking ties with the Soros-funded open borders group, the Evangelical Immigration Table. This is a major victory and a day for celebrating! Praise God! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C0KEyIZwku\">pic.twitter.com\/C0KEyIZwku<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Megan Basham (@megbasham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megbasham\/status\/1968374382130266375?\">September 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Basham thanked other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/southern-baptists-face-liberal-threat-within-public-policy-arm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Baptists<\/a> who had been calling for their denomination to stop associating with the Evangelical Immigration Table.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Your voices mattered. Thank you for being bold and contending for the faith!&rdquo; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, Basham outlined how the Evangelical Immigration Table has been &ldquo;nothing more than a front group&rdquo; for left-wing open borders advocates at the National Immigration Forum.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Legally they are the same entity. NIF is and was funded by George Soros. For the first few years of its existence, he was its biggest backer,&rdquo; she explained.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;His own board books for Open Society cite how their funding went to the NIF&rsquo;s work with *evangelical Christians and Southern Baptists* specifically,&rdquo; Basham continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">They have, specifically through the Evangelical Immigration Table which is nothing more than a front group for the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >left-wing open borders org<\/a>, National Immigration Forum. Legally they are the same entity. NIF is and was funded by George Soros. For the first few years of its&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kT7BJLs0jX\">https:\/\/t.co\/kT7BJLs0jX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rlUNYc1eYY\">pic.twitter.com\/rlUNYc1eYY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Megan Basham (@megbasham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megbasham\/status\/1968424480159449563?\">September 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To deny this is to deny hard records,&rdquo; she concluded. &ldquo;But praise God, it is a new day and we are finally disentangled from this secular left-wing amnesty group.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Many conservative leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention &mdash; which is the nation&rsquo;s largest Protestant association of churches &mdash; have long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-southern-baptists-grapple-public-policy-entity-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> about left-wing groups attempting to subvert and steer the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nations-largest-protestant-denomination-proudly-calls-end-gay-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bulwark<\/a> of American conservative evangelicalism.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 43 percent of attendees this summer at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baptistpress.com\/resource-library\/news\/southern-baptists-vote-to-keep-erlc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> to abolish the ERLC entirely, largely because of such concerns.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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