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   Στις 23/7/2023 12:39 π.μ., ο/η G έγραψε:   
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   > DeSanctimonious wants to distract everybody from the right wing pedophile   
   > scandals.   
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   > Rightwing Christians are raping children everywhere yet only rightists   
   > protect them.   
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   > Southern Baptists Refused to Act on Abuse, Despite Secret List of Pastors   
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   > Investigation: SBC Executive Committee staff saw advocates' cries for help   
   > as a distraction from evangelism and a legal liability, stonewalling their   
   > reports and resisting calls for reform.   
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   > Armed with a secret list of more than 700 abusive pastors, Southern   
   > Baptist leaders chose to protect the denomination from lawsuits rather   
   > than protect the people in their churches from further abuse.   
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   > Survivors, advocates, and some Southern Baptists themselves spent more   
   > than 15 years calling for ways to keep sexual predators from moving   
   > quietly from one flock to another. The men who controlled the Executive   
   > Committee (EC)-which runs day-to-day operations of the Southern Baptist   
   > Convention (SBC)-knew the scope of the problem. But, working closely with   
   > their lawyers, they maligned the people who wanted to do something about   
   > abuse and repeatedly rejected pleas for help and reform.   
   >   
   > "Behind the curtain, the lawyers were advising to say nothing and do   
   > nothing, even when the callers were identifying predators still in SBC   
   > pulpits," according to a massive third-party investigative report released   
   > Sunday.   
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   > The investigation centers responsibility on members of the EC staff and   
   > their attorneys and says the hundreds of elected EC trustees were largely   
   > kept in the dark. EC general counsel Augie Boto and longtime attorney Jim   
   > Guenther advised the past three EC presidents-Ronnie Floyd, Frank Page,   
   > and Morris Chapman-that taking action on abuse would pose a risk to SBC   
   > liability and polity, leading the presidents to challenge proposed abuse   
   > reforms.   
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   > As renewed calls for action emerged with the #ChurchToo and #SBCToo   
   > movements, Boto referred to advocacy for abuse survivors as "a satanic   
   > scheme to completely distract us from evangelism."   
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   > Survivors, in turn, described the soul-crushing effects of not only their   
   > abuse, but the stonewalling, insulting responses from leaders at the EC   
   > for 15-plus years.   
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   > Christa Brown, a longtime advocate who experienced sexual abuse by her   
   > pastor at 16, said her "countless encounters with Baptist leaders" who   
   > shunned and disbelieved her "left a legacy of hate" and communicated "you   
   > are a creature void of any value-you don't matter." As a result, she said,   
   > instead of her faith providing solace, her faith has become   
   > "neurologically networked with a nightmare." She referred to it as "soul   
   > murder."   
   >   
   > Another victim, Debbie Vasquez, was repeatedly sexually assaulted by an   
   > SBC pastor starting at the age of 14. When one assault led to her   
   > pregnancy, she was forced to apologize in front of the church but   
   > forbidden to mention the father. The pastor went on to serve at another   
   > Southern Baptist church, and when Vasquez reached out to the EC, her   
   > entreaties were ignored and evaded for years until a Houston Chronicle   
   > investigation three years ago.   
   >   
   > Over the past 20 years, meanwhile, a string of SBC presidents failed to   
   > appropriately respond to abuse in their own churches and seminaries. In   
   > several instances, leaders sided with individuals and churches that had   
   > been credibly accused of abuse or cover-up. One former president-pastor   
   > Johnny Hunt-sexually assaulted another pastor's wife in 2010,   
   > investigators found. This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse   
   > Public Theology   
   > This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse   
   > The abuse investigation has uncovered more evil than even I imagined.   
   > Russell Moore   
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   > At the annual meeting in Anaheim, California, next month, one year after   
   > they voted to launch the investigation, thousands of Southern Baptists   
   > will decide if they are ready to make the dramatic and costly changes the   
   > report recommends for the sake of survivors and church safety.   
   >   
   > "Amid my grief, anger, and disappointment over the grave sin and failures   
   > this report lays bare, I earnestly believe that Southern Baptists must   
   > resolve to change our culture and implement desperately needed reforms,"   
   > said SBC president Ed Litton in a statement to CT. "The time is now. We   
   > have so much to lament, but genuine grief requires a godly response."   
   >   
   > Guidepost Solutions, the third-party investigative firm, wants the   
   > 13.7-million-member denomination to create an online database of abusers,   
   > offer compensation for survivors, sharply limit non-disclosure agreements,   
   > and establish a new entity dedicated to responding to abuse. The   
   > directives in the 288-page report will sound familiar to survivors and   
   > advocates, who have been calling for those measures all along.   
   >   
   > "How many kids and congregants could have been spared horrific harm if   
   > only the Executive Committee had taken action back in 2006 when I first   
   > wrote to them, urging specific concrete steps? And how many survivors   
   > could have been spared the re-traumatizing hell of trying to report clergy   
   > sex abuse into a system that consistently turns its back?" asked Brown in   
   > a 2021 letter. "The SBC Executive Committee's longstanding resistance to   
   > abuse reforms has now yielded a whole new crop of clergy sex abuse victims   
   > and of survivors re-traumatized in their efforts to report."   
   >   
   > As they anticipated the release of the report, current interim EC   
   > president Willie McLaurin and EC chairman Rolland Slade quoted   
   > Ecclesiastes: "God will bring every act to judgment, including every   
   > hidden thing, whether good or evil" (12:14, CSB).   
   >   
   > The current leaders urged Southern Baptists to be receptive to the bad   
   > news.   
   >   
   > "This is a time and season to search out our shortcomings, a time to   
   > embrace the findings of the report," they wrote last week, "a time to   
   > rebuild the trust of Southern Baptists and a time to heal by meeting the   
   > challenges required with the necessary changes expected." Largest   
   > investigation in SBC history   
   >   
   > The report represents a $2 million undertaking, involving 330 interviews   
   > and five terabytes of documents collected over eight months. The EC also   
   > committed another $2 million toward legal costs around the   
      
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