Once roiled by sexual abuse issue, Southern Baptist leadership now downplays its extent

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Four years ago, the Southern Baptist Convention received a landmark report asserting that top leaders in the nation's largest Protestant denomination had long minimized reports of sexual abuse by clergy, intimidated survivors and stonewalled reforms.

The convention's 2022 annual meeting passed a resolution apologizing to abuse survivors, several of them by name. It authorized reforms that included the creation of a database of credibly accused church workers.

It appeared to mark a reckoning within the SBC in tandem with the wider #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements — and a recognition that clergy sex abuse extended far beyond the much-publicized scandal in the Catholic Church.

But prominent survivors and advocates have largely given up trying to bring about change in the SBC after witnessing what they view as increasingly faltering efforts toward reform.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/once-roiled-sexual-abuse-issue-110606089.html

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1. They Tell Me it Can Be Awfully Hard for Some Criminals to Suspend Past Bad Behavior, Never Mind Yield Power

But it's a wonder they still have "church" in their name.

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3. "Sexual abuse is all part of god's secret plan for conservatives!"

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4. Their prerequisites for membership have always been adultery and pedophilia