As Christa Brown, who has followed the Southern Baptist Convention's evasions of truth and political machinations for years, when it comes to dealing with sexual abuse of vulnerable people, says, we'd never have gotten the truth about Paul Pressler without lawsuits.
Because the SBC was determined to resist at all costs letting the truth be known.
Brown concludes: Let the lawsuits continue and proliferate.
To wit: "Just last week, in Arkansas, clergy sex abuse survivors filed a lawsuit naming not only First Baptist Church of Benton but also the SBC, SBC Executive Committee, Arkansas Baptist State Convention, and Central Baptist Association. It’s a dreadful case involving allegations that scores of boys were sexually victimized over the course of 20 years…."
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.