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20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms
Thirty-five years later, Debbie Vasquez’s voice trembled as she described her trauma to a group of Southern Baptist leaders.
She was 14, she said, when she was first molested by her pastor in Sanger, a tiny prairie town an hour north of Dallas. It was the first of many assaults that Vasquez said destroyed her teenage years and, at 18, left her pregnant by the Southern Baptist pastor, a married man more than a dozen years older.
In June 2008, she paid her way to Indianapolis, where she and others asked leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention and its 47,000 churches to track sexual predators and take action against congregations that harbored or concealed abusers. Vasquez, by then in her 40s, implored them to consider prevention policies like those adopted by faiths that include the Catholic Church.
In this 2007 file photo, Debbie Vasquez holds a photo of herself at age 14, when she says she was first molested by the pastor of her church in Sanger, about one hour north of Dallas. (Donna McWilliam/Associated Press)
“Listen to what God has to say,” she said, according to audio of the meeting, which she recorded. “… All that evil needs is for good to do nothing. … Please help me and others that will be hurt.”Days later, Southern Baptist leaders rejected nearly every proposed reform.
The abusers haven’t stopped. They’ve hurt hundreds more.
So begins a long initial article, the first of three parts that deals with the Southern Baptist, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.
Certain posters try to say that Democrats are evil but I would challenge then that this organization, considered a conservative group, may truly defined as evil.
Chile molestation; it’s not just for Catholic clergy anymore. . . or maybe ever.
". . . those who claim to know the Mind of God, who will tell you what God thinks and how He will judge and condemn others—those people are the greatest of all blasphemers." Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast
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I’m posting about hypocrisy, something you should be intimately familiar with.
So funny coming from a liberal gun grabber…Hey, where is that weird buddy of yours…Been two months since he posted last…Another thing, you are not using your sock puppet much these days…Why?
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