Southern Baptists vote to probe leaders' sex abuse response
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Source: Associated Press
By TRAVIS LOLLER and PETER SMITH
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to create a task force to oversee an independent investigation into the denomination’s handling of sexual abuse.
The resolution calls for the newly elected SBC president, Alabama pastor Ed Litton, to appoint the task force, which will head up a review of allegations that the denomination’s Executive Committee mishandled abuse cases, intimidated victims and advocates and resisted reforms.
It would also investigate the work of a credentials committee that was created in 2019 with a mandate to exclude congregations that fail to respond to sex abuse cases.
It was a sharp turn of events for the SBC’s largest gathering in decades.
The SBC’s business committee had planned to refer the proposal to its Executive Committee — the same entity alleged to have failed in its response to abuse cases — but church representatives voted in the morning to put the matter before the convention floor and then approved it later in the day against only token opposition.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/sexual-abuse-by-clergy-baptist-business-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-4a93d039992642c77909be3ec704e3ea
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