This "little light" shines for the many clergy abuse victims whose voices have been silenced. Silenced by shame. Silenced by the false instruction of religious leaders. Silenced by church shunning and bullying. Silenced by church contracts for secrecy. Silenced by suicide. The mission of StopBaptistPredators.org is to break the silence of Baptist clergy sex abuse.
Texas: Southern Baptist youth pastor indicted on
9 counts of sexual assault of a child
He "has retained employment at the church." Members of Second Baptist Church
of Odessa have "pledged to support" the minister.
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Georgia: Southern Baptist church changes name after pedophile minister convicted. Now it's
Heritage Fellowship.
Former youth minister gets 18 years for molestation of 2 boys.
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TIME ranks Southern Baptists' rejection of sex-offender database as a top "underreported" news story of 2008
"The lack of hierarchical structure and systematized record-keeping... makes it harder... to track allegations of abuse."
TIME's top 10 story >
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Southern Baptists reject sex-abuse database
"Under pressure to fight child sex abuse, the SBC's executive committee said…the denomination should not create its own database to help churches identity predators or establish an office to field abuse claims.” Associated Press >
"Instead of protecting its followers from sexual predators, Nashville's Southern Baptist Convention leaves churches to fend for themselves." Nashville Scene >
"The very fact that Baptist churches are autonomous signals that they need the information that the convention could provide." Tennessean editorial >
"To argue that a list of Southern Baptist ministers who are sexual predators violates the self-government of a local church is illogical." Burleson op-ed >
"Baptists miss an opportunity." Dallas Morning News editorial >
"Holy hypocrisy!" Winson-Salem Journal editorial >
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"The SBC prevaricates by saying ...
... that the creation of a Baptist database would just confuse matters." Marci Hamilton, Princeton law professor
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"The very fact that Baptist churches are autonomous signals that they need the information that the convention could provide."
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