22 Feb 2007
Sex abuse victims go after Southern Baptists

The level of hypocrisy here is just appalling:

Vasquez says she was raped when Amyx was a minister at the now-defunct Calvary Baptist Church in Lewisville, another town north of Dallas.

When she became pregnant with Amyx's child at age 18, church leaders forced her to go before the congregation and ask forgiveness as an unwed mother. But the congregation was never told it was Amyx's baby.

You gotta wonder about this: were they protecting a predator or simply acting out a deeply rooted misogyny. Beginning with Eve, it always seems to be the woman's fault.

Christianity seems to have a problem with sex, and it's certainly not a lack thereof.

The victims' advocates who dogged the Roman Catholic Church over sex abuse by its clergy have now turned their attention to the Southern Baptists, accusing America's largest Protestant denomination of also failing to root out molesters.

(link) [CNN.com]

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