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==Career==
==Career==
From 1988 to 2013, Land was the president of the influential Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], a position from which he retired amid controversial comments about the racially-charged Trayvon Martin case. He then took the presidency of Southern Evangelical Seminary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/richard-land-retire-southern-baptist-leader-step-down-after-ethics-probe_n_1730636.html |author=Adelle M. Banks|title=After Ethics Probe, Southern Baptist Leader to Retire|publisher=''[[The Huffington Post]]''|date=August 1, 2012|accessdate=May 4, 2020}}</ref>
From 1988 to 2013, Land was the president of the influential Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], a position from which he retired amid controversial comments about the racially-charged Trayvon Martin case in 2012. He then assumed the presidency of Southern Evangelical Seminary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/richard-land-retire-southern-baptist-leader-step-down-after-ethics-probe_n_1730636.html |author=Adelle M. Banks|title=After Ethics Probe, Southern Baptist Leader to Retire|publisher=''[[The Huffington Post]]''|date=August 1, 2012|accessdate=May 4, 2020}}</ref>
The more [[liberal]] Russell D. Moore (born 1971) succeeded Land at ERLC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413214328/http://www.abpnews.com/culture/social-issues/item/28562-sbc-leader-says-evangelicals-moved-to-sidelines-on-issues-of-religious-freedom|author=Bob Allen|publisher=Associated Baptist Press|title=SBC leader says evangelicals paying price for 'narrow vision' of religious freedom|date=April 11, 2014|accessdate=May 4. 2020}}</ref>
The more [[liberal]] Russell D. Moore (born 1971) succeeded Land at ERLC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413214328/http://www.abpnews.com/culture/social-issues/item/28562-sbc-leader-says-evangelicals-moved-to-sidelines-on-issues-of-religious-freedom|author=Bob Allen|publisher=Associated Baptist Press|title=SBC leader says evangelicals paying price for 'narrow vision' of religious freedom|date=April 11, 2014|accessdate=May 4. 2020}}</ref>