A number of folks replied to my thread linked below. As they've noted, though I spoke of Southern Baptist right-wing leader Paul Pressler abusing men, Texas Republican leader Jared Woodfill, an anti-gay activist, has sworn under oath that he knew from 2004 forward of credible allegations that Pressler had abused a child — and Woodfill did not cut his ties with Pressler.
As Mark Wingfield recently reported, Dallas attorney Gene Besen, who represents the Southern Baptist Convention, has stated publicly in a tweet,
"If want [sic] you want to hear is that Pressler was is [sic] dangerous predator who exploited boys based on his power and his false piety — I whole heartedly agree."
There are credible allegatinons, confirmed by an attorney for the SBC, that Pressler "exploited boys."
As David French notes, when an icon of the left falls from grace sexually, right-wing folks and media are all over the story, reporting it in detail.
But when one of their own — e.g., Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler, chief architects of the hard-right turn of the Southern Baptist Convention — falls, it's crickets. Nada.
As Derek Scally reports, German Protestants have long maintained that they represent the "better" church — better than the Catholic alternative. Re: sexual abuse of minors, they've wanted to pretend this is a uniquely Catholic problem.
A strong meme has been that the problem of sexual abuse of minors in Catholicism is rooted in the celibacy requirement: if priests could marry, abuse would vanish.
But a bombshell report published last week by Forum Study shows that sexual abuse of minors is very much prevalent in German Protestant churches, and that the largest perpetrator group — 40% — have been clergy and male, and more than 2/3 are married.