Southern Baptist Church sex abuse - OPPERMAN REPORT EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Southern Baptist Church sex abuse - OPPERMAN REPORT EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEW
Dec 11, 2023
US Southern Baptist churches facing ‘apocalypse’ over sexual abuse
scandal

A report named hundreds of church leaders accused or found guilty
of abusing children and says survivors were mistreated.

America’s largest Protestant and second-largest Christian
denomination is being roiled by a sexual abuse scandal that casts a
harsh light on one of the most politically powerful religious
groups in the country as well as renewing a focus on its racist
past.

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a collection of loosely
affiliated member churches, boasting just under 15 million members,
and is dominated by white members, who are usually deeply socially
conservative. The convention has often been a powerful tool for
rightwing organizing in recent years, especially on issues around
abortion.

But the SBC is now so mired in scandal that one recent former top
official said it faced a “Southern Baptist apocalypse”.

The issue at hand is the release by the SBC of a 205-page document
naming hundreds of Baptist leaders and members accused or found
guilty of sexual abuse of children. The list, which includes 700
entries on cases between 2000 and 2019, was released after a
bombshell third-party investigation by Guidepost Solutions said the
convention’s leaders in its executive committee failed the public
and its community by mishandling sexual abuse cases and mistreating
victims and survivors.

SBC leaders Rolland Slade and Willie McLaurin issued a statement
saying the list “reminds us of the devastation and destruction
brought about by sexual abuse. Our prayer is that the survivors of
these heinous acts find hope and healing, and that churches will
utilize this list proactively to protect and care for the most
vulnerable among us.”

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