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Related: About this forumSouthern Baptist leader Paige Patterson fired over handling of sex abuse allegation
Source: Washington Post
Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson fired over handling of sex abuse allegation
By Michelle Boorstein and Sarah Pulliam Bailey
May 30 at 11:34 PM
A major Southern Baptist seminary has fired one of the movements giants of the last quarter-century, Paige Patterson, after new information came to light regarding how Patterson handled a sexual abuse allegation while he led another institution, the school said in a statement Wednesday night.
Patterson was demoted one week ago from his position as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary following the publication of a flurry of statements he made starting in 2000 about the Bibles view of women and his beliefs about spousal abuse and why its not grounds for divorce. The schools trustees moved him from being president to president emeritus, framing it as a desire for change and fresh blood.
Patterson supporters seemed willing to live with the decision but it infuriated many, especially conservative Christian women, who said Patterson had not been explicitly held accountable and had been allowed to retire with his stature intact. Ironically Patterson, leader of a historic conservative purifying in the 1980s and 1990s of Southern Baptism that called for male-only pastors and women to submit graciously to their husbands, was being held under the public light by conservative women, who by the thousand signed a May 6 petition calling for him to lose his job.
On Wednesday, some said they finally felt heard.
Its a sigh of relief. Maybe we feel somewhat dignified. They listened to us, said Lauren Chandler, wife of Dallas megachurch pastor Matt Chandler and one of the first to sign the petition. Last weeks decision, she said, was a case of the punishment didnt fit the crime There was a lot of damage to women in particular Im saddened for people who have been bullied or silenced or made to feel less. Im saddened for the loss of [the Pattersons] a couple who had led the way in the SBC for a while.
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By Michelle Boorstein and Sarah Pulliam Bailey
May 30 at 11:34 PM
A major Southern Baptist seminary has fired one of the movements giants of the last quarter-century, Paige Patterson, after new information came to light regarding how Patterson handled a sexual abuse allegation while he led another institution, the school said in a statement Wednesday night.
Patterson was demoted one week ago from his position as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary following the publication of a flurry of statements he made starting in 2000 about the Bibles view of women and his beliefs about spousal abuse and why its not grounds for divorce. The schools trustees moved him from being president to president emeritus, framing it as a desire for change and fresh blood.
Patterson supporters seemed willing to live with the decision but it infuriated many, especially conservative Christian women, who said Patterson had not been explicitly held accountable and had been allowed to retire with his stature intact. Ironically Patterson, leader of a historic conservative purifying in the 1980s and 1990s of Southern Baptism that called for male-only pastors and women to submit graciously to their husbands, was being held under the public light by conservative women, who by the thousand signed a May 6 petition calling for him to lose his job.
On Wednesday, some said they finally felt heard.
Its a sigh of relief. Maybe we feel somewhat dignified. They listened to us, said Lauren Chandler, wife of Dallas megachurch pastor Matt Chandler and one of the first to sign the petition. Last weeks decision, she said, was a case of the punishment didnt fit the crime There was a lot of damage to women in particular Im saddened for people who have been bullied or silenced or made to feel less. Im saddened for the loss of [the Pattersons] a couple who had led the way in the SBC for a while.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/05/30/southern-baptist-seminary-fires-paige-patterson-over-handling-of-sex-abuse-case/
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Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson fired over handling of sex abuse allegation (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2018
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TexasTowelie
(112,167 posts)1. I don't know if I would necessarily classify it as being fired.
1) He is still going to be paid as president emeritus, although I don't believe they have decided the amount to be paid.
2) He and is wife will still be allowed to live on campus.
It seems like that's a pretty good deal.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)2. More of a PR move
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)3. That was last week
As of yesterday, they severed all ties - no president emeritus, no free house, no salary.