re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That case in 1992 was the first time church leaders were held responsible for what one of their employees did. It was a Colorado case against an Episcopalian priest.

So I’m going to go with “not hyperbole.”

Given the way church leaders, both local and national, cover up child sexual abuse, it’s a serious problem. Mike Stone, one of the contenders for SBC president, told a young woman who was protesting the SBC re her own sexual abuse as a child that had been ignored by leadership that she was destroying the church. Hell of a thing to say.

I am now at the point where I will bluntly say that any Southern Baptist Convention church is probably unsafe unless they have a specific descriptive set of policies regarding child safety. (Hint: most of them don’t.) Other churches are in the same position. I don’t think churches are safe for most anyone who isn’t white, male and conspicuously well-off. The rest of us can just go to hell.