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   An Atheist?  Well, I guess he's not a pedophile.   
      
   And you said he's black like Clarence Thomas and Tim Scott!   
      
   Some say that Church attendance has plummeted because members of the   
   flock are afraid of being ass raped by the minister or being forced to   
   become groomers like Trump and JD Vance.   
      
   Being a rightist Christian in the USA means fucking children is always on   
   the agenda.   
      
      
   How the Southern Baptist Convention covered up its widespread sexual   
   abuse scandal   
      
      
   outhern Baptist members detail alleged grooming, sexual misconduct among   
   clergy in new report   
   "There are plenty of reasons to stay silent in a situation such as this.   
   But we must not be silent," one sex abuse survivor said.   
   Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled abuse allegations, report   
   finds   
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   In the summer of 2010, a pastor and his wife at First Baptist Church in   
   Woodstock, Georgia, said they received an invite to vacation in Florida   
   with Johnny Hunt, a senior pastor of their church whom they considered a   
   mentor.   
      
   The 55-year-old church leader had been elected national president of the   
   Southern Baptist Convention two years earlier, making him one of the most   
   powerful members of the largest denomination of Protestants in the U.S.   
      
   Hunt allegedly helped to book them a place in Panama City Beach that,   
   unbeknownst to them, was directly beside his unit in the same condo   
   complex, the unnamed young couple said in a 288-page blockbuster   
   investigative report released Sunday by the Southern Baptist Convention.   
   When the pastor’s wife arrived alone after a day out, she said she was   
   greeted by Hunt, and they interacted from their respective balconies.   
      
   But when she invited him inside her condo to escape the heat and continue   
   their conversation, during which she said she opened up about the stress   
   she and her husband were under at the church, he became aggressive, she   
   said to investigators, as detailed in the report. According to her, he   
   pulled down her shorts, made sexual remarks about her body, and then   
   pinned her to the couch and pulled up her shirt. She said in the report   
   that he groped her and sexually assaulted her with his hands and mouth.   
      
   Moments later, she said in the report, Hunt — who is married with two   
   adult daughters close to her age — texted her to come out to her balcony   
   to discuss what had happened. Instead of an apology, she said, he made a   
   proposition that they have sex three times a day.   
      
      
   Hunt did not immediately return a request for comment Monday about the   
   allegations, but in a statement posted on Twitter following the report’s   
   release, he denied its contents while also saying he had not yet read the   
   findings in their entirety.   
      
      
   The report detailed widespread allegations of sexual misconduct among   
   named clergy and a cover-up involving the upper echelons of the Southern   
   Baptist Convention.   
      
   The denomination's executive committee contracted an outside firm,   
   Guidepost Solutions, an independent consultant that conducts   
   investigations on behalf of faith-based organizations, to launch an   
   inquiry after delegates voted overwhelmingly for one last summer.   
      
   In its wake, Ronnie Floyd, a Southern Baptist Convention president from   
   2014 to 2016, resigned in October as head of the executive committee.   
      
   The report also goes over several reforms the church could implement,   
   including creating and maintaining an “Offender Information System” to   
   alert the community to alleged offenders, and restricting the use of   
   nondisclosure agreements and civil settlements that bind accusers to   
   confidentiality in sexual abuse matters.   
      
   A church task force will present its own recommendations based on the   
   report during its annual meeting next month in Anaheim, California.   
   Southern Baptist Convention   
   Attendees worship during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting   
   in Phoenix in 2017.Matt York / AP file   
      
   Already, the reaction from some prominent leaders of the Southern Baptist   
   Convention and followers has centered on a demand for sweeping changes   
   that ensure the accused are not protected and the abused are not   
   silenced.   
      
   “What was published is heartbreaking, with some parts just horrifying,”   
   tweeted J.D. Greear, a North Carolina pastor and Southern Baptist   
   Convention president from 2018 to 2021 who has spoken in support of sex   
   abuse victims. “We have no choice but to learn from our past and change   
   the future.”   
      
   In response to the report, current Southern Baptist Convention President   
   Ed Litton said in a statement Sunday that there “are not adequate words   
   to express my sorrow at the things revealed in this report” and that   
   Southern Baptists “must resolve to change our culture and implement   
   desperately needed reforms.”   
      
   Litton could not be reached Monday for further comment.   
      
   Another leader of the denomination, Kevin Ezell, the president of the   
   Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, said he was   
   unaware of any misconduct allegations against Hunt, who resigned from a   
   leadership position with the board more than a week ago.   
      
   “I learned the details of the report today along with the rest of our   
   Southern Baptist family,” Ezell said, adding that the details in the   
   report are “egregious and deeply disturbing.”   
      
   He said he declined to speak publicly about Hunt’s resignation until   
   after the Guidepost report was released “out of respect for the   
   investigation.”   
      
   Neither the woman who accused Hunt of misconduct nor her pastor husband   
   were named in the Guidepost report, which comes after a 2019   
   investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News   
   documenting two decades worth of cases, in which pastors and deacons in   
   Southern Baptist churches allegedly abused hundreds of people while for   
   the most part remaining in their posts. In response to the newspapers’   
   report, church leaders pledged to protect victims and bring about change.   
      
   According to Guidepost investigators, Hunt gave an “unusual amount of   
   attention” to the pastor’s wife while at the church and “groomed the   
   couple with flattery and promises of help in ministry.”   
      
   The investigators said they interviewed other witnesses who helped   
   corroborate the pastor and his wife’s allegations, including a counseling   
   minister at First Baptist Church who confirmed being present for a   
   session between Hunt and the couple, during which, he said, Hunt admitted   
   to the woman’s husband that he sexually assaulted her. At that meeting,   
   the couple also said Hunt stated, “Thank God I didn’t consummate the   
   relationship,” according to the report.   
      
   Hunt also did not immediately respond to a request for comment about   
   their accusations.   
      
      
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