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By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

Andrew T. Walker

Andrew T. Walker, director of research and senior fellow in Christian ethics at the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, speaking at ERLC's annual conference in Grapevine, Texas, on Oct. 11, 2018.
Andrew T. Walker, director of research and senior fellow in Christian ethics at the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, speaking at ERLC's annual conference in Grapevine, Texas, on Oct. 11, 2018. | (Screenshot: live.erlc.com)

Andrew T. Walker, director of research and senior fellow in Christian ethics at the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, approved of the action.

In a post to his Twitter account on Sunday, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor cited Scripture as a justification for what happened.

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“A reminder that government is at its most fulfilled purpose when it is doing, quite literally, what its basic and primary calling is—Noahic preservative justice: ‘For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad.’ Romans 13:3,” tweeted Walker.

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