Southern Baptist Convention's hypocritical resolution blasts gays, lesbians, trans, and childless couples, but lets

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the sexual abusers in their own ranks and Trump's immorality slide.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/this-years-southern-baptist-convention.html

The "Largest Protestant denomination in the United States" just finished its annual meeting in Dallas yesterday. A list of resolutions condemning what they see as the social and moral ills of the country is usually forthcoming. This year, the formal complaint about all that they perceive is wrong with this country came out in one long, 1,000 word resolution that was brought to the floor of the convention, got every little debate, and passed.

They condemned gays, lesbians, childless couples, people who remain single, and transgendered persons by pointing out how pervasive all of these things have become in our culture.

They left out the fact that for the past six years, they have been stymied by their inability to deal effectively with a sexual abuse crisis within their own denomination, in which hundreds of pastors and other church leaders, including those working with youth and children, have been reported for abusing members of their churches. In many cases, because Baptist churches are independent and autonomous, abusers have been able to move on from a church where they've been exposed, to another congregation that is not aware of the abuse.

Many of these cases were reported to the denomination's Executive Committee, which not only kept them confidential, and did nothing to stop the abuse, but which actually wound up protecting abusers by claiming that, because they have no ecclesiastical authority over any local church, they could not take any action.