Original sentence: Criswell and Adrian Rogers, along with Paige Patterson and Judge Paul Pressler, were chief among the architects of what was a well-planned effort to purge the Convention of what they considered liberal influences.Throughout the 1980s, conservatives gained control over the SBC leadership at every level from the administration to key faculty at their seminaries, and slowly turned the SBC towards more conservative positions on many social issues (for example, on abortion, the SBC reversed course from "reluctant support" of pro-choice policies to a strong pro-life stance, which it continues to hold today)
Edited sentence: Criswell and Adrian Rogers along withPaige Patterson, Judge Paul Pressler were chief among the architects of what was a well-planned (and at times, morally questionable) effort to purge the Convention of what they considered liberal influences.In secret SBC committee meetings, they fired key officials and were even caught wire-tapping the phone of a seminary president.They were able to slowly turn the SBC towards more conservative positions on many social issues (for example, on abortion, the SBC reversed course from "reluctant support" of pro-choice policies to a strong pro-life stance, which it continues to hold today).Throughout the 1980s, conservatives gained control over the SBC leadership at every level from the administration to key faculty at their seminaries