BOB ABERNETHY: In other news, the Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina, is scheduled to vote this weekend on whether to break ties with the Southern Baptist convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Kim Lawton reports that this vote comes on the heels of a decision by another North Carolina Baptist church to make the break.

KIM LAWTON: For more than 150 years, First Baptist Church, Raleigh's oldest Baptist church, was part of the Southern Baptist Convention. That relationship came to an end last week. Church members said the SBC has become too politically and theologically conservative and too heavy-handed in imposing its views.

Unidentified Woman #1: I got to the place I was ashamed to say I was a Baptist. So I'm glad we pulled out.

Unidentified Woman #2: I think we're on the same path we've always been on. I think the Southern Baptist Convention isn't. I think they've deviated.

Unidentified Man: We're doing the right thing. We like to think that you do not have to commit a mental suicide when you become a Baptist. You can think for yourself.