{"id":1488973,"date":"2022-05-23T18:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T22:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488973"},"modified":"2022-05-23T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T22:44:51","slug":"so-much-to-lament-southern-baptist-leaders-respond-to-devastating-report-on-sexual-abuse-mishandling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/so-much-to-lament-southern-baptist-leaders-respond-to-devastating-report-on-sexual-abuse-mishandling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018So Much To Lament\u2019: Southern Baptist Leaders Respond To \u2018Devastating\u2019 Report On Sexual Abuse Mishandling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fso-much-to-lament-southern-baptist-leaders-respond-to-devastating-report-on-sexual-abuse-mishandling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488973&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) responded to an independent report released Sunday revealing that sexual abuse was covered up for years in America\u2019s largest protestant denomination<\/p>\n<p>The seven-month-long investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/baptist-religion-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-southern-convention-bfdbe64389790630488f854c3dae3fd5\">concluded<\/a> that leaders on the SBC\u2019s Executive Committee (EC) \u201cresisted\u201d and \u201cstonewalled\u201d repeated sexual abuse allegations made by SBC members against pastors and leaders in the denomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are not adequate words to express my sorrow at the things revealed in this report,\u201d SBC President Ed Litton said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liamsadams\/status\/1528489301398503430\/photo\/1\">statement<\/a> Sunday. \u201cI am grieved to my core for those who have suffered sexual abuse in Southern Baptist contexts, both for those named in this report and the many who are not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delegates at last year\u2019s SBC national meeting called for an outside investigation, and the EC agreed to an examination by independent firm Guidepost Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investigation revealed that, for many years, a few senior EC leaders, along with outside counsel, largely controlled the EC\u2019s response to these reports of abuse \u2026 and were singularly focused on avoiding liability for the SBC,\u201d the report said, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The independent report added that the SBC ignored or disbelieved sexual abuse survivors and excused complaints by referring to the denomination\u2019s autonomous church polity. The report stated that this excuse was given to those making abuse allegations \u201ceven if it meant that convicted molesters continued in ministry with no notice or warning to their current church or congregation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report goes on to state that one EC member held a list of hundreds of accused pastors, but there is no evidence anyone on the committee \u201ctook any action to ensure that the accused ministers were no longer in positions of power at SBC churches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of those accused was former SBC President Johnny Hunt, who was accused of sexually assaulting another pastor\u2019s wife during a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) responded to an independent report released Sunday revealing that sexual abuse was covered up for years in America\u2019s largest protestant denomination The seven-month-long investigation concluded that leaders on the SBC\u2019s Executive Committee (EC) \u201cresisted\u201d and \u201cstonewalled\u201d repeated sexual abuse allegations made by SBC members against pastors and leaders &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1489032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}