Pope emeritus Benedict XVI: "The Church and the Scandal of Sex Abuse": A Protestant response (2)

[jtbayly (Joseph Bayly)]

Yes, and we’ve discussed this in SV. Let’s move discussion of abuse in the SBC here:

20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist

Long article. And the first of three. Eye-opening to say the least. We should do better. If this doesn’t light a fire under Greear, I wont know what to say. But he may not be concerned since scripture apparently only “whispers” about sexual sin. It certainly gives a context to his words a few weeks ago, a shameful context. That said, some of the statistics they use are not impressive. “But the newspapers found at least 10 SBC churches that welcomed pastors, ministers and volunteers since 1998 …

We also discussed the Independent Fundamental Baptist example here:

Hundreds of sex abuse allegations found in fundamental Baptist churches across

https://www.star-telegram.com/living/religion/article222576310.html Another (4 part) sex abuse exposé. This one concerns Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) churches. Of course, everybody also knows about the scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. Then there is the explosion of incestuous sexual abuse in conservative homeschooling reformed families. Here’s what these situations have in common: Unaccountable leadership. This can happen in various ways. One way is through polity (IFB being an…