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Southern Baptist Convention Says It Faces Federal Investigation for Sexual Abuse

Author:     Thomas Fuller
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     Aug. 12, 2022
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Stephan:   Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are all very screwed up about sex and gender issues. So screwed up that in all three cases the patriarchal bias of these religions results in endless sex abuse of women and children, both male and female. I cannot find an exact statistic but it is clear that if your parents are religious and frequently put you in the care of the clergy or church staff of your faith you risk a much higher probability that you will be sexually abused, than if your family is unchurched. The Baptists are the largest protestant denomination in the U.S. and, like the Roman Catholic Church, they are now facing a crisis of clergy and church staff sexual dysfunction, as this report describes.
The leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention said on Friday that the church was under investigation by the Justice Department for sexual abuse. Credit: Holly Meyer / Associated Press

The leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, said on Friday that the church was under investigation by the Justice Department for sexual abuse and that it would “fully and completely cooperate.”

Church leaders said in a statement that multiple branches of the denomination, which includes seminaries and missionary organizations, were under investigation and that the church was continuing to “grieve and lament past mistakes.”

In May, leaders of the church published a scathing review that said reports of sexual abuse were suppressed by top church officials for two decades.

That investigation, which was conducted by an outside consultant, covered reports of abuse from women and children against male pastors, church employees and officials from 2000 to the present.

One of the report’s most striking revelations was the existence of an internal list of 703 people suspected of abuse that had been compiled by an employee of the denomination’s […]

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