The Southern Baptist Convention gathers for its annual national meeting Tuesday with one sobering topic — sex abuse by clergy and staff — overshadowing all others.
Mary DeMuth, a rape survivor and an advocate for abuse victims, speaks during a rally protesting the Southern Baptist Convention’s treatment of women outside the convention’s annual meeting at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on June 12, 2018.
Sex abuse already was a high-profile issue at the 2018 national meeting in Dallas, following revelations about several sexual misconduct cases. Soon after his election as SBC president at that meeting, the Rev. J.D. Greear formed an advisory group to draft recommendations on how to confront the problem.articles by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News
Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear speaks to the denomination’s executive committee in Nashville on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. The scandals have created a major distraction at a time when recent political events have thrilled many Southern Baptist members. The convention is happening in the state that passed the strictest abortion ban in the country, an issue near and dear to many Baptists. And President Trump has advanced an agenda that has pleased many conservative Christians, including a remade U.S. Supreme Court.
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