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Several years ago, I didn’t believe a friend when she told me the SBC mishandled issues of sexual abuse. She was insistent I reevaluate my place. I thought I could stay and change the culture. Then I started to follow abuse survivors on Twitter. I started listening.
I couldn’t believe it. So much abuse. So much coverup. So much blatant misogyny. I missed it because I wasn’t in those social media spaces. I had my small group and thought my church was doing the right thing. They were complicit and still are.
If you don’t speak loudly against wrongs, you’re complicit. And there are not a lot of things in this world more heinous than sexual abuse in church. I should have listened a long time ago. Listen to survivors. They’ve been telling you this would happen for so long.
Dear @SBCExecComm: When you meet next week, how about speaking directly & transparently to these 5 questions & requests? All are within your power. 🧵1/7 #SBCtoo #SBCreckoning #ThisistheSBC @williemclaurin
I’m named dozens of times in Guidepost’s report. Awful conduct by YOU the @SBCExecComm & your members. YOU did me harm – separate & beyond harm of sexual abuse. Do you intend to make any effort toward making amends for YOUR harms? 2/7
What about accountability for Morris Chapman? If he’d done what messengers directed in 2007 – a legit database study – countless kids could have been spared great harm. Consequence? How about just stripping him of honorary EC President Emeritus title? 3/7
In this exceptional piece, @sarahposner pulls together a lot of pieces to show how the SBC got to this place of merging religion & Trumpism and what it's meant for their abysmal response on sexual abuse.
I'm proud to be quoted in it... 1/4 #ThisistheSBC thenation.com/article/societ…
I'm proud to be quoted in it... 1/4 #ThisistheSBC thenation.com/article/societ…
2/ When Brown saw SBC leaders "giving support to a president who bragged about assaulting women," she said "it felt like déjà vu. Their minimization of horrific conduct was a pattern that we had already seen up close." #SBCtoo
3/ "They normalized & minimized the sexual predations of a president in much the same way that they normalized & minimized the sexual predations of their clergy colleagues." - me
#ThisistheSBC #SBCtoo
#ThisistheSBC #SBCtoo
I’ve got fire coming out the top of my head today. According to their own public statement, @TexasBaptists destroyed information about clergy sex abuse.
Destruction of evidence that could protect kids & congregants. It makes my blood boil. #SBCtoo 1/7 baptiststandard.com/news/texas/tex…
Destruction of evidence that could protect kids & congregants. It makes my blood boil. #SBCtoo 1/7 baptiststandard.com/news/texas/tex…
2/ For 15 yrs @TexasBaptists “maintained a confidential file of ministers who were credibly accused.” They accepted info for the file only FROM CHURCHES, not from victims, & by their policy, info went into the file based on confession, conviction or substantial evidence of abuse.
3/ In 2016, @TexasBaptists stopped keeping this file AND (what I just realized) they also DESTROYED the evidence. In their own words: “Information that needed to be reported…was identified & passed on. ALL OTHER INFORMATION WAS DESTROYED." #SBCtoo baptiststandard.com/news/texas/tex…
#SBC21 Messengers...Thank you from the bottom of my heart, for hearing our cries and acting in support! While I am beyond elated many important steps have been taken over the last 2 days, there is so much work still left to be done...and it cannot be done by 1 person alone.
There will be a continued need for many things as we move forward with a new sense of hope...Accountability for promises made, ministering to survivors (while meeting them where they are,) continued education into trauma and how we as Christians can respond in a way that...
that honors Christ...etc.
Then, once the investigation is complete and made known, there will be many more steps needed to be taken in regards to genuine repentance & restitution along with concrete actions to prevent further harm to God's children. This is just the beginning...
Then, once the investigation is complete and made known, there will be many more steps needed to be taken in regards to genuine repentance & restitution along with concrete actions to prevent further harm to God's children. This is just the beginning...
When I use 'The SBC' I'm speaking about...
My SBC ordained Youth Pastor who sexually abused me
My SBC pastors who blamed me when I reported my assault
My SBC pastors who failed to report my abuse
My SBC pastors that never informed my abuser's next church about his history
My SBC ordained Youth Pastor who sexually abused me
My SBC pastors who blamed me when I reported my assault
My SBC pastors who failed to report my abuse
My SBC pastors that never informed my abuser's next church about his history
My SBC pastors who were not honest with the congregation about what occurred
My SBC pastors who allowed my abuser to lead a 'True Love Waits' weekend right after he assaulted me
My SBC pastors who threw my abuser a going away party
My SBC pastors who allowed my abuser to lead a 'True Love Waits' weekend right after he assaulted me
My SBC pastors who threw my abuser a going away party
My SBC pastors who never once reached out to me personally after I reported my abuse
The SBC pastor who later hired my abuser all while knowing that he abused me, a teen, in his past youth group
My SBC pastor who continues to deny wrong doing in how my abuse was handled
The SBC pastor who later hired my abuser all while knowing that he abused me, a teen, in his past youth group
My SBC pastor who continues to deny wrong doing in how my abuse was handled
