The Southern Baptist Convention was just exposed for covering up claims of sexual assault against its own members and intimidating their accusers.
Third-party investigative organization Guidepost Solutions has released a 288-page report detailing the extremist group’s failure to act against sexual misconduct accusations made against several of their members over the course of many years.
Reports of sexual abuse, specifically against minors, have been levied at the Catholic church for decades, and this report outlines that this Protestant branch of the Christian establishment is not as far removed as they might like to think.
“For almost two decades, survivors of abuse and other concerned Southern Baptists have been contacting the Southern Baptist Convention (‘SBC’) Executive Committee (‘EC’) to report child molesters and other abusers who were in the pulpit or employed as church staff,” the report states.
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“They made phone calls, mailed letters, sent emails, appeared at SBC and EC meetings, held rallies, and contacted the press… only to be met, time and time again, with resistance, stonewalling, and even outright hostility from some within the EC.”
The Southern Baptist Convention has a famed background of discrimination against the queer community, releasing statements like “a desire to engage in a homosexual relationship is always sinful, impure, degrading, shameful, unnatural, indecent and perverted” and “inconsistent with God’s holy purposes in creation and redemption.”
It seems that, according to the findings of this report, the anti-LGBTQ hate group has its own share of the impure, the degrading, and the shameful.
Let us close with a select reading from the good book herself:
Jeremiah 23:10-12 state, “The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly. ‘Both prophet and priest are godless; even in my temple I find their wickedness,’ declares the LORD. ‘Therefore their path will become slippery; they will be banished to darkness and there they will fall.’” (source: The Bible)
Titus 1:16 “They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.” (citation: The Bible)
Matthew 7:3 states, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” (see: Bible, The)
Now, here’s what Twitter has to say about the whole thing…
So the Southern Baptist convention, who are some of the main culprits calling all Queer folks groomers, have been covering up sexual abuse in the church for decades.
I don't even need to offer commentary here
— Ramona Quaxli (@RamonaQuaxli) May 22, 2022
A bombshell report says the Southern Baptist Convention covered up decades of sexual abuse & BEGGED victims to get abortions
These are the religious extremists fighting to end Roe
The ChristoFascists who want to strip us of the right to choose
Time to tax the shit outta them
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) May 23, 2022
Reminder: The Southern Baptist Convention was founded to defend slavery.
— Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons (@GuthrieGF) May 22, 2022
So the Southern Baptist Convention is even worse than we thought.
I’m both amazed and unsurprised.
— Jonathan Carone (@jonathan_carone) May 22, 2022
One more thing. This report needs to be on every major network and newspaper because the Southern Baptist Convention is big lynchpin of Republican Party politics. If you think they won't try to push this abuse report under the rug while pushing CRT, attacking Trans kids…
— ProfB (@AntheaButler) May 22, 2022
Just to be clear: Great missional work does not minimize the many abuse findings in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).
— Rondell Treviño (@Rondell_Trevino) May 23, 2022
The Southern Baptist Convention calls #LGBTQ+ folk like me "sinful, impure, degrading, shameful, unnatural, indecent and perverted." Today, an independent investigation found the SBC to be a cesspool of sexual abuse, child rape, and elaborate coverups.https://t.co/HZTcJ9D13f
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) May 22, 2022
One of the things I hope to see in my lifetime is the Southern Baptist Convention burn to the fucking ground.
— Mason Mennenga (@masonmennenga) May 22, 2022
The same Southern Baptist Convention that cheered on Ron DeSantis's war on Disney.
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) May 23, 2022
I found the Southern Baptist Convention in Chicago… pic.twitter.com/rNrlDchdmz
— Jens Nelson (@jens_nelson) May 23, 2022
ZzBomb
Sooner humanity drops religious beliefs, the sooner we can move passed these stupid hypocrisies it creates.
johncp56
Ditto Religious cults are what’s wrong, Hypocrisies are being kind to them,
Mack
Actually religion is worst than you ever thought, just some people keep their heads firmly up their backside and can’t see it-and mainly because they don’t want to.
Jim
Old white men
Polaro
And you had to go there?
gaym50ish
No, it’s not just old white men. Bishop Eddie Long, whose New Birth Missionary Baptist Church was the site of Coretta Scott King’s funeral in 2006 — was accused in 2010 of coercing two young men, ages 17 and 18, into several sexual encounters. Two more men surfaced later, making the same charge. The four former New Birth members alleged that Long seduced them by using his considerable influence along with trips, gifts and jobs. Initially, Long said he would fight the charges as David fought Goliath. But his church settled the cases out of court for an estimated $15-25 million, then tried to get back the initial million-dollar payment when the accusers violated a confidentiality agreement.
Kangol2
Yet another abominable, hypocritical political organization masquerading as a religious sect, so they should be fully exposed for the horrors they’ve aided and abetted and covered up for years, taxed to the nth degree, and shamed for covering up child sexual abuse, promoting religious fanaticism, and helping elect racist, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ hacks!
Music908
It happened all the time when I was a kid. There were pastors that my father, who was a church deacon, was asked to follow and see if they were having affairs. My daddy had to have “a talk” with two pastors, and one of them was eventually sued by a female church member who he had been having an affair with for years. One of the choir directors was accused of fooling around with a young girl, whom he later married (20 year age difference). One of the pastors was accused of fooling with girls and boys, so it was happening with bi-sexual pastors too. There has always been a lot of talk about sex in Baptist Churches, and that leads to young, impressionable people questioning themselves, and searching for answers from church leaders.
Polaro
Religion is superstition intended to manipulate people, extort money from them and control their behavior. There is a façade about creating a community, which of course is a lie since a core tenant is ostracization. There is also the lie of charity, which clearly has not worked since the largess mostly flows to the church leaders. Its a social sickness really.
Stefano
You take the words right out of my mouth!