Remember rape apologist Paige Patterson, formerly of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary?

The seminary is after him now because he committed the one true crime that can’t be forgiven by Christian conservatives: They allege he stole from them. You’re only supposed to do that to the marks.

Southwestern Accuses Pattersons of Theft, Improper Donor Solicitation (Word & Way)

Three years after trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary fired Paige Patterson as president for mishandling allegations of student rapes, the school in Fort Worth, Texas, alleges Patterson and his wife Dorothy took items from the SWBTS and improperly contacted SWBTS donors to shift funding to the Pattersons’ personal nonprofit.

“The Pattersons have continued to use institutional records for their own personal benefit and to the detriment of the Seminary,” the SWBTS report alleges. “The Pattersons’s actions have caused substantial financial harm to the Seminary.”

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Additionally, SWBTS alleges the Pattersons took artwork, antique firearms, and taxidermy from a collection donated to the seminary by Perry Bolin. As the school worked with the Bolin family to transfer the collection to a third party, an inventory in 2019-2020 discovered several missing items.

“Through pictures posted to social media, the Seminary learned that at least one of the missing paintings is hanging in the Pattersons’ new home in Parker, Texas,” the report adds. “On multiple occasions, legal counsel for the Seminary has contacted the Pattersons’ legal counsel to request the items be returned. As of the time of this response, the missing items have yet to be returned to the Seminary.”

They have the evidence, they could just call the cops. They won’t do that though, because they don’t want to draw more attention to the abject failure of their moral teachings.