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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Before he became a leading voice for conservative causes on Capitol Hill, U.S. Senator James Lankford spent more than a decade as the director of youth programming at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, a sprawling campground about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City that attracts more than 50,000 campers in grades six through 12 each year.
The Republican lawmakers tenure at the camp is a prominent feature of his political profile, noted in the first paragraph of his official Senate biography. That experience is also coming under renewed scrutiny as the Southern Baptist Convention, which is affiliated with the group that owns the camp, faces a reckoning over its handling of sexual abuse cases.
In 2009, while Lankford worked at the camp, the family of a 13-year-old girl sued a 15-year-old boy who was alleged to have had sex with her at the camp. Lankford, who was not in Congress at the time, is not alleged to have had any direct knowledge of the alleged assault, has not been accused of any wrongdoing and was not a defendant in the lawsuit, which was settled for an undisclosed amount before it was scheduled to go to trial.
But in a 2010 deposition in the case, given a week after he was elected to his first term in the U.S. House, Lankford testified that he believed a 13-year-old could consent to sex.
Yes, I think they can, Lankford told Kenyatta Bethea, a lawyer for the girls family, according a 155-page transcript of the deposition obtained by The Associated Press.
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-oklahoma-city-7c198e08793337f620e26f2cfcbb7c0f
niyad
(112,431 posts)been sick since the ruling came down. hang in there, we all must
vote this November!
niyad
(112,431 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Grins
(7,128 posts)Nah!!
The bad thing (among many things) about Langford, is there are WORSE Bible thumpers out there.
barbaraann
(9,086 posts)LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)Reminds me of the actor who played Dorian Gray in the movie from the 40s. Creepy looking outside evil inside.
treestar
(82,383 posts)is no doubt another of his disgusting opinions.
Eta I mean be generous and say 12 weeks of summer, three whole months (that we don't really have after no child left behind). That would be over 4,000 campers a week. Wtf.