Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention are planning to establish an independent nonprofit organization, the Abuse Response Commission, to handle sexual abuse claims. The organization, funded by SBC dollars, aims to be less influenced by denominational politics or individual leaders. Critics express concerns about accountability and the burden placed on SBC churches to support the initiative.
New "independent" (but founded by SBC officers, serves SBC exclusively...) abuse commission to have nonprofit status in South Carolina. Papers apparently not formally submitted & nonprofit doesn't exist yet. Funding? $2M Send Relief money from NAMB: https://t.co/9CDj2H3nem https://t.co/i5no9yNyXD
The Southern Baptist Convention's top administrative body voted Tuesday to oust four congregations - one for having a woman as senior minister, two for what it said were failures related to the denomination's sexual-abuse policy and one for lack of... https://t.co/uhvUZEC4kt
Southern Baptists oust church for having woman pastor, two others over sexual-abuse policy https://t.co/o9yKyFCeyz
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention say they intend to establish a separate nonprofit organization to handle sexual abuse claims. https://t.co/adJgNjUHao
Southern Baptists asked to create independent nonprofit to combat sexual abuse, leaders told https://t.co/BsD8rXAPGj
“And yet, they can’t do the right thing - which is to forthrightly say that there is no SBC abuse crisis as such, and that it is unjust to hold the SBC responsible for every act of abuse committed in any church that happens to be SBC.” https://t.co/ilnd5o4S15
SBC churches, almost all of which have never abused anyone, are supposed to write a blank check to some 3rd party which they can't hold accountable This isn't the blind leading the blind so much as the town idiot, Wester, leading the other idiots, SBC employees, into a grift-pit https://t.co/gatZ5l4U9k
“The independent structure of the nonprofit, named the Abuse Response Commission, is different than most other agencies serving [the SBC] making it less beholden to denominational politics or the whims of any one SBC leader” AKA unaccountable bureaucracy https://t.co/rbqFIepoQK
Breaking out of the @SBCExecComm: Josh Wester announced the launch of an “independent non-profit” for SBC “abuse reform” efforts and the “database” This organization would have to be funded by SBC dollars—but it would have limited (if any) accountability to messengers.