Former President Jimmy Carter's Letter to 75k Baptist Ministers in 2000 is here.

And following his mailing and the related news stories about it, a torrent of OpEd articles about
Jimmy Carter leaving the Southern Baptist Convention were published. Some of the better ones are here.
Source: UPI / BeliefNet
URL: http://beliefnet.com/story/47/story_4798_1.html

ATLANTA, Oct. 20 (UPI)--Former President Jimmy Carter, the son of a Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher, has disassociated himself from the nation's largest Protestant denomination and criticized its "increasingly rigid creed."