Monday, May 23, 2022

GET ME REWRITE: Southern Baptist Convention leadership makes mockery of Christianity

 

Headline: USA Today, 5/22/2022
Dictionary entryMerriam-Webster [red box added]

USA Today excerpt
The report publicly details, for the first time, a credible allegation of sexual assault against former SBC President Johnny Hunt a month after his term ended in 2010 and how high-ranking staff maintained a list with hundreds of names of ministers accused of sexual misconduct but did nothing with it. 
Meanwhile, leaders spoke poorly about abuse survivors behind their backs and downplayed the extent of the crisis. The SBC's law firm repeatedly advised leaders not to take action when those leaders were approached with concerns about abuse or reform, the report concluded. 
"Almost always the internal focus was on protecting the SBC from legal liability and not on caring for survivors or creating any plan to prevent sexual abuse within SBC churches," Guidepost said in its report. [emphasis added]

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