Goats favoring the wolves over the sheep.
Now do public schools
As much as the SBC has apostatized over the past decade, this “report” should be viewed with a skeptical eye. It is ax grinding writ large. Also, The SBC is NOT a centralized organization, with all authority emanating from the top, which dictates policy and accountability to affiliated church bodies, like the Roman Church. It is decidedly decentralized. How, then, could an affiliated org be held accountable?
If only Baptist ministers were allowed to marry this wouldn’t happen... oh wait. Never mind.
Fail. They created liability for the SBC by not doing anything to protect peoplle.
I thought we had a policy of turning claims of abuse over to civil authorities to investigate and prosecute.
The local churches in the SBC do have autonomy. I'm not sure if the SBC provides any human resources assistance to churches in hiring. But if they are tracking them, and they should be, they should be alerting congregations that there has been an allegation or record of abuse. The local church needs to know.
And many in that convention said many things about the Catholic Church as if they didn’t stink too
Fact of the matter, though, is that there is a distinct possibility that Father X, Pastor X, Brother X, Rabbi X, Imam X, Teacher X, Sister X, Coach X, Troop Leader X, or Uncle Ernie is an abuser of youth. They are all called to their vocations from this society. This society is sick and perverse. While most of them, even the vast majority, will have genuine vocations and are assets to their churches, their schools, and their communities, some are going to end up being snakes.
Sure, you can (and should) do criminal background checks on them. But if the background check comes back negative, it only means that they haven't gotten caught (probably that's they haven't done anything, but that's all assumption). You can do psychological screening, but a psychopath can lie and pass any psych eval or polygraph out there. You could do a detailed background check with interviews, but that would only disclose if the person was careless.
I think the only way to protect our children these days is to adapt the Mike Pence rule to fit the situation. Never let a kid alone with a non-family adult unless there is a completely trusted third party in the room at the same time. If teacher wants to have a private conference with the kid, another adult had to be present. If Father or Pastor wants to counsel the kid, it doesn't happen without another adult in the room (maybe that other adult has to be sworn to secrecy about the content of the counseling, but another adult must be there). Overnight retreats? Lock ins? Only with plenty of chaperones.
As long as society is this way, I don't see any way around that. Will it be perfect? Hardly. But it's the minimum that can be done.
Bottom line: if you think it can't happen in your church, your school, your scout troop, your youth sports team, or whatever...you are deluding yourself.
In 2017 I fired one of those pastors. He stood trial for abusing a 15 year old girl on Guam
All of this is sickening, but meanwhile, nearly the entire DNC and FedGov (with some uniparty) are going all in to sodomize preschool through 12th grade, across the whole country.
And that is for those who weren’t aborted, and body parts and blood sold for profit —
That’s just not possible! Only idolatrous Catholic clergy abuse children!
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Oh if only they would allow them to marry then this wouldn’t happen…
Oh wait..
WaPo now reporting that the SBC is going to publish the names of the alleged abusers:
oh no, no, no, no...these are protestants....its only Catholics that have trouble with their hierarchy.....