Editorials & Other Articles

Until the Southern Baptist Convention effectively acknowledges the seriousness of the sexual abuse problem among their church leadership, entity leadership and in their churches, and lays out effective, workable plans to deal with it in the context of their "independent and autonomous" churches, it has no credibility as a Christian denomination. And as far as this author is concerned, this abominable hypocrisy totally and completely undermines the entire platform of Evangelical-influenced, Republican politics.

Incidents like this need to be at the forefront of the political messaging that people hear and see. Trump grabs women by the genitals, has multiple affairs on his wives, sleeps with a porn star, gets charged and convicted of 34 felonies regarding the illegal business dealings surrounding his attempt to cover that up, and he's still a candidate for the Presidency. His most vocally supportive constituency is embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal in a Christian denomination that involved it's leaders at the highest level, in both homosexuality and in sexual abuse of women.