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LOCAL/STATE
Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, June 10, 2018
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#MeToo jolts Southern Baptists
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Crisis hits group
just before annual
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By David Crary
AP National Writer
The Southern Baptists are
facing their own #MeToo crisis
as the biggest Protestant de-
nomination in the U.S. heads
into its annual meeting next
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A series of sexual misconduct
cases has prompted the South-
ern Baptist Convention’s socially
conservative, all-male leader-
ship to seek forgiveness for the
ill treatment of women and vow
to combat it. Hoping for more
than rhetoric, women and some
male allies plan a protest rally in
Dallas when the two-day meet-
ing opens on Tuesday.
“The past two months have
been tough for our convention,”
SBC President Steve Gaines
wrote this week. “I believe God
has allowed all of this to happen
to drive us to our knees.”
Illustrating the SBC’s predic-
ament, the central figure in the
most prominent of the #MeToo
cases, Paige Patterson, had been
scheduled to deliver the fea-
tured sermon at the gathering.
However, Patterson withdrew
from that role Friday, heeding a
request from Gaines and other
leaders.
Patterson was recently dis-
missed as president of South-
western Baptist Theological
Seminary in Texas because of his
response to two rape allegations
made years apart by students.
In a 2015 case, according to
the seminary’s board chairman,
Patterson told a campus security
official that he wanted to meet
alone with a student who had
reported being raped, to “break
her down.”
Patterson also was accused
of making improper remarks
about a teenage girl’s body and
contending that abused women
should almost always stay with
their husbands.
Baptist Press, the SBC’s offi-
cial news service, has reported
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ing women to suffer abuse.”
The draft resolution received
a mixed review from Ashley
Easter, a writer and speaker
from Raleigh, North Carolina,
who is an advocate for victims of
abuse and an organizer of Tues-
day’s planned protest rally.
She and the others want
the SBC to create a database of
clergy sex offenders and require
all pastors and seminarians to
undergo training on how to ad-
dress domestic abuse and sexual
assault.
Easter said she wishes the
SBC would change its doctrine
about gender roles but doubts
that is imminent.
on other cases, including the
resignations of one seminary
professor who acknowledged “a
personal moral failing” and an-
other who cited “personal and
spiritual issues.”
SBC leaders say there are
many more cases — adding up
to a humiliating debacle for the
15.2-million-member denomi-
nation.
abusing them.”
The Rev. Russell Moore,
president of the SBC’s public
policy arm, the Ethics & Reli-
gious Liberty Commission, said
the #MeToo moment would not
trigger a move to ordain women
as ministers
“There is, though, a great
deal of conversation about how
women can have a greater voice
in decision-making,” he said,
suggesting that more women
could serve as trustees of semi-
naries and other institutions.
Moore and Mohler are
among dozens of SBC leaders
who have co-signed a resolution
that will be submitted for ap-
proval in Dallas. It calls on the
SBC to repudiate any rhetoric or
behavior that dishonors women,
and denounces those who com-
mit or cover up such actions. It
also urges congregations and
ministers to abide by all report-
ing laws.
The resolution’s author, Mid-
western Seminary president Ja-
son Allen, bristled at the notion
that wives should endure abuse
to save their marriages.
“We can work against our
matrimony-shattering ‘no-fault’
divorce culture and shore up
marriages,” he wrote. “But this
needed work never means ask-
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“The avalanche of sexual
misconduct that has come to
fight in recent weeks is almost
too much to bear,” wrote the Rev.
Albert Mohler, president of the
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, in a recent blog post
. “These grievous revelations of
sin have occurred in churches,
in denominational ministries,
and even in our seminaries.”
Mohler acknowledged that
the crisis might raise ques-
tions about the SBC’s doctrine
of “complementarianism”
which espouses male leadership
in the home and in the church
and says a wife “is to submit
herself graciously to the servant
leadership of her husband.”
Mohler said the SBC will not
abandon the doctrine. But “we
need to realize there are unbib-
fical and toxic forms of com-
plementarianism,” he said. “We
should be honoring women, not
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE STATE
Houston
U.S.: Immigrant dies
of ‘apparent suicide’
apprehended at the Weslaco bor-
der station on May 11 and trans-
ferred to the Rio Grande Valley
immigration processing center.
The Post report, citing unnamed
Border Patrol agents, said he was
with his wife and 3-year-old son
and separated from them, but the
federal statement made no men-
tion of family members.
The statement says that
while Munoz was being pro-
cessed, he “became disruptive
and combative” and was trans-
ferred to the Starr County jail.
He was found unresponsive in
his cell on May 13.
“When you have a patriar-
chal theology, with one person
in power and control of the oth-
er, some will use that theology
to abuse,” she said. “It’s unsafe
for women not to be in an equal
place.”
U.S. authorities have con-
firmed that a Honduran man
was found dead in a Texas jail
cell of an “apparent suicide” last
month, but made no mention of
details in a Washington Post re-
port that the man was enraged
after his wife and son were sepa-
rated from him.
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection issued a statement
Saturday confirming the death
of Marco Antonio Munoz. The
CBP statement says Munoz was
A rally organizer, Tex-
as-based author and speaker
Mary DeMuth, commended the
draft resolution but expressed
dismay that women were given
minimal speaking time at the
two-day SBC meeting. She said
she wishes for an SBC in which
‘are no longer dis-
women
missed, stereotyped or relegated
to subcommittees.”
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