Report: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination, stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations, according to a scathing 288-page investigative report issued Sunday.

“In service of this goal, survivors and others who reported abuse were ignored, disbelieved, or met with the constant refrain that the SBC could take no action due to its polity regarding church autonomy – even if it meant that convicted molesters continued in ministry with no notice or warning to their current church or congregation,” the report added.

—Restrict the use of nondisclosure agreements and civil settlements which bind survivors to confidentiality in sexual abuse matters, unless requested by the survivor. The task force had a week to review the report before it was publicly released. The task force’s recommendations based on Guidepost’s findings will be presented at the SBC’s meeting in Anaheim.

Among those reacting strongly to the Guidepost report was Russell Moore, who formerly headed the SBC’s public policy wing but left the denomination after accusing top Executive Committee leaders of stalling efforts to address the sex abuse crisis. It cited the case of Dave Pittman, who from 2006 to 2011 made phone calls and sent letters and emails to the SBC and Georgia Baptist Convention Board reporting that he had been abused by Frankie Wiley, a youth pastor at Rehoboth Baptist Church when he was 12 to 15 years old.

Now we know why the SBC is one of the biggest pro-life denominations…

'no longer in positions of power' so they're still in some kind of position within the church? Y'all sure are consistent as to which sinners get the Christ treatment, huh?

Typical in Alabama. Churches need to be taxed and all ministers need to be vetted. My former church is being run by idiots who seek money and fame. Everyone is bailing. So so glad they kicked me out 10 years ago.

These fake christians want to force girls & women to have kids so they have a larger supply to rape & molest. Sickening scandal after scandal for these pedos & pedo lovers/apologists, yet they call democrats 'groomers'. How many kids has your pastor/priest raped &/or impregnated?

Wickedness. If a person has an immoral affliction(especially a sexual or physical abuse kind), they should never be in a position of trust or leadership in the church. See Matthew 7:15-23.

But the trans kids in bathrooms or the drag queen book readings are the real danger? Ammirite?

Yikes! SBC and the Catholic church 👹🤡👹.

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