After a shocking Houston Chronicle report and an internal review, the Department of Justice is now investigating the SBC.
Mary C. Curtis: Over two decades, roughly 380 SBC-affiliated leaders and volunteers were accused of sexual misconduct. Guidepost, which was called in by the SBC to conduct an internal review, released its report in May. Why was it so significant?The report was pretty explosive. It had 400 pages with footnotes, and at the center of the report was this man named Augie Boto, the SBC’s longtime lawyer.
And he doesn’t seem to have done anything with it. I think that’s the shocking thing for a lot of people. Survivors had requested for so long that there be this internal database that churches could consult when making hiring decisions. I think the list was a major finding because it really did just kind of lay bare the type of deceit that SBC leaders have been engaged in for so long.
In the wake of revelations of widespread abuse in the SBC, a number of survivors and even some leaders have been calling for concrete policy reforms. At the annual convention this summer, SBC members voted to require a public database of known predators within the organization, primarily to give SBC churches something to reference when making hiring decisions and to be more transparent about abuse.That was passed at their June meeting in June pretty much unanimously.
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