Southern Baptist president Bart Barber asks for forgiveness for Kentucky sex abuse amicus brief

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Barber, however, said the decision to file it was made by Willie McLaurin, then the Interim CEO of the SBC Executive Committee.

“The consent that I gave ... was consent that I gave in coordination with the decision made by the Interim CEO of the SBC Executive Committee,” Barber wrote.

authority on matter like this, I think that the President of the SBC is as obligated to execute those decisions as he is if the messengers had voted on the matter themselves.”The case was dismissed and reinstated as the state’s law was expanded to lengthen the statute of limitations and allow claims to be brought against “non-perpetrators” such as religious organizations.

Because of the filing, he added, “a lot of people are disappointed with me and angry. I’m talking about friends I’ve had for two decades. I’m talking about survivors of sexual abuse for whom I have wanted to be an advocate. I’m talking about people I myself appointed to carry forward the SBC’s response to the Guidepost Investigation. A lot of people—a lot of friends and allies—are really disappointed with me today. I don’t have words to express how I feel about that.

Barber added that he “did not know the circumstances of the underlying legal case” or the abuse endured by Samantha Killary, whose sexual abuse at the hands of her adopted father, a former police officer, is at the center of the Kentucky case.

 

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