Local idiot megachurch pastor Ed Young recently said some typically ignorant and politically-charged things, which has people justifiably upset. Not the first time for him, either. I have better things to do than think about Ed Young, so let me just note one thing from that story:
Young, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, leads one of the country’s biggest churches, touting a membership of 80,000 across several locations as of 2019. His congregants include Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and other Texas lawmakers.
Former President of the Southern Baptist Convention, you say? Where have I seen that name in the very recent news?
Federal investigators are probing the Southern Baptist Convention over its handling of sexual abuse following the publication of an explosive report that found top officials had for two decades silenced abuse survivors and fought reforms out of fears of lawsuits, leaders of the nation’s second-largest faith group said on Friday.
In a statement, the SBC’s top leadership body, the Executive Committee, confirmed that the Department of Justice is looking into “multiple” Southern Baptist entities.
The statement was signed by all of the leaders of the SBC’s seminaries and main entities. They said they will cooperate fully with the criminal investigation and “continue to grieve and lament past mistakes.”
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The SBC’s handling of abuse has been in the public spotlight since 2019, when the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News published the first of an ongoing series, Abuse of Faith, that found hundreds of church leaders and volunteers had been convicted of sex crimes.
They left behind at least 700 victims, nearly all of them children.
The newspapers’ reporting prompted Southern Baptist church members to request a third-party review last year of the SBC’s Executive Committee’s handling of abuse reports dating back to 2000.
Clean up your own fucking house, Ed. You have zero moral authority over anyone.
(I’d also tell you to get your facts straight, but I know you don’t care.)
Kuff, am afraid your position is a bit of a straw man argument…. three different things, three different issues, three different arenas, with no relationship between the three.
(Crime rates in Houston, IRS prohibition of preaching politics from the pulpit, sexual abuse allegations at Southern Baptist Church/Convention).
They have one thing in common…Ed Young.
I wonder, is Sly equally upset with black churches in Houston busing their parishioners to the voting booth? Souls to the Polls? Those black churches are not busing people to the polls to vote Republican, not even for a black Republican like North Carolina Lt. governor Mark Robinson, can we agree on that?
I also point out that some black churches are against abortion, transgender, gay marriage….same stuff Ed Young is against, and for the same reason, but we don’t vilify the black church ministers because we vote on the same team. Fair criticism of pedophiles found in SBC churches, though.
https://www.electionforum.org/church/souls-to-the-polls-why-the-democrats-love-early-voting-on-sunday/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-try-for-black-turnout-with-souls-to-the-polls-events-in-nc/