Meanwhile, Texas Baptists provided buses and volunteers to round up the FLDS children and separate them from their mothers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_QG1UqHLs
Dumb move. Can’t they have a database for the denomination and have the local church deal with the screening and punishments?
“Local church autonomy rules out creating a centralized investigative body to determine who has been credibly accused of sexual abuse or anything else, it said, and the convention has no authority to bar known perpetrators from ministry or start an office to field abuse claims.”
I just think it is interesting in light of Baptist involvement in the round up of FLDS children - all based on a false report of sexual abuse. I just think it is very interesting.
P.S. I was raised in the Southern Baptist Church and have many fond childhood memories but I am horrified the way the Baptists provided buses to haul off those innocent children.
the trend over the last 20 years in the SBC has been toward more centralization, not less. Now when centralization is suddenly inconvenient, they fall back on the individual autonomy rubric.
The best example of a Database for Identifying Sexual Predators on a large scale is BishopsAccountability.org.
Anything less is useless.
Each Catholic Diocese controlled themselves, they were locally Autonomous and CORRUPT.
See where that got them.
The best example of a Database for Identifying Sexual Predators on a large scale is BishopsAccountability.org.
Anything less is useless.
Each Catholic Diocese controlled themselves, they were locally Autonomous and CORRUPT.
See where that got them.