The quality and message of the film were praised by many sources, including Paul Asay of pluggedin.com, a Focus on the Family sponsored website that reviews entertainment.  “It’s not a pristine portrayal, either artistically or ethically. But I was moved by the story and walked out of the theater smiling,”

Lifeway Christian Bookstores will be pulling the film “The Blind Side” from their shelves in response to a complaint from a Florida pastor.

Pastor Rodney L. Baker of Hopeful Baptist Church of Lake City submitted a resolution to the Southern Baptist Convention, demanding that LifeWay pull the PG-13 film over its language content.

“BE IT RESOLVED that the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in annual session June 17- 20, 2012, in New Orleans, Louisiana expresses dissatisfaction with ‘The Blindside’ and any product that contains explicit profanity, God’s name in vain, and racial slur,” reads the resolution in part.

The resolution will be introduced to the Southern Baptist Convention at its Annual Meeting next week in New Orleans.

Although LifeWay has already agreed to pull “The Blind Side,” Baker still intends to submit the resolution as a way of sending a message about LifeWay and the content of its products.

Marty King, communications director for LifeWay, told CP that he had hoped the move on the part of the book store would remove the controversy from the New Orleans meeting.

“We do not want this convention to be about us or any agenda, other than our convention’s strides in racial unity in this historic election of the first African-American president of the SBC,” said King.

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