Quick note of interest for our readers. Thanks Anonymous. Today's post below this notification.
“(c). The SBC has the ability to remove from fellowship churches that protect homosexual members, but in will do absolutely nothing about churches that protect pedophiles in the pulpit and men who sexually exploit women and remain in the ministry.”
From Burleson’s latest blog post LINK
We know there is ONE pastor who gets it.
G-o-o-o Wade, one of the few SBC pastors who doesn’t irritate me.
Dee,
Got your message. Yes, I look forward to writing about this topic as the SBC messengers assemble in Phoenix early next week.
It will be interesting to see if Wade’s estimation of attendance is accurate.
Let’s see… the SBC claims be be over 16 million strong and only 5,000 are vested enough in the denomination to attend the annual meeting. Something doesn’t compute…
Generally speaking, I rarely cut-and-paste links to other sites unless it’s genuinely warranted, and frames a topic in an illustrative way.
The following is germane to TWW’s recent thread topic of sekshull predators amongst the Protestant faithful in what they hope would be safe enclaves for themselves and especially for their children:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/09/abuse-cases-free-exercise_n_874515.html
I would be very interested in what Arce has to say on this, given his keen mind and legal background.
Wow, what a twist on the first amendment. Churches have been successfully sued over a lot of areas including sexual abuse of children and sexual exploitation of a person counseled by a clergy member in the course of the latter’s employment (negligent supervision, for example). I can understand how one could claim that belief in an employee’s redemption and clean slate could be argued, but the church still would have an obligation to supervise, and with a prior background and the published recidivism rates, that would include specific steps to protect the children, otherwise I think a negligent supervision claim could be sustained.
However, in states where a particular religious organization has a large percentage of the population as members, it may be that the defense postulated in the huff post piece would find more sympathy.