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Jan 24, 2020 • 9 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
NEW: In an interview today, ⁦Southern Baptist President @jdgreear strongly denounced disgraced leader Paige Patterson, and advised churches to consider Patterson's history of mishandling sex abuses before inviting him to preach. #SBCtoo #ChurchToo houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
@jdgreear Greear's comments came after I asked him about decisions by two churches to host/honor Patterson, including a Dallas-area church that recognized him as a "defender of the faith" earlier this month. #SBCtoo #ChurchToo #CaringWell

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@jdgreear Greear: I advise any Southern Baptist church to consider this severe action before having Dr. Patterson preach or speak and to contact trustee officers if additional information is necessary. #SBCtoo #ChurchToo #CaringWell
@jdgreear Greear: "If our system of governance means anything, it means exercising due diligence and heeding what those whom we put in positions of trustee oversight have reported about official misconduct.” #SBCtoo #ChurchToo #CaringWell
@jdgreear Greear: “I know (Patterson's return to preaching) has caused confusion, frustrations, and in many cases fresh pain for survivors. We must be clear going forward for the sake of those who have been hurt and to those in churches and entities today.” #SBCtoo #ChurchToo #CaringWell
@jdgreear Side note: This is my first story as the @HoustonChron religion reporter.

I promise you that I, too, would have preferred it not involve sex abuses, Southern Baptists and/or Paige Patterson.

Really. I tried.
@jdgreear A bit more context: the crux of Greear's statement was about Patterson's recent return to SBC pulpits. The context is much more evident in the story, but I wanna further clarify for the Twitterverse.
Also:

Update: Patterson’s longtime attorney has responded to my request for comment.

“He would never respond to something like that.”

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Sep 12
Setting aside that we still dont know almost anything about Charlie Kirk’s murderer: There is an overwhelming body of evidence showing the far right accounts for a disproportionate —and particularly fatal— share of political violence, even as left-wing violence has risen lately.
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Don't believe me? Here's what the Cato Institute, by no means an ally of the left, published today. It's not even close.
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Sep 10
I'm not in any way speculating. But I'm actually shocked how few people know that Charlie Kirk has for years been among the most reviled people on the planet by white supremacists, many of whom were radicalized by sustained campaigns painting him as an anti-white fraud.
Again: I'm not speculating about the shooter. I just have been stunned how quickly people have jumped with certainty to partisan conclusions. Because in extremism spaces, the Charlie Kirk Hater to Nazi pipeline is canon. It's how we got a generation of antisemitic extremists.
Nick Fuentes literally built his movement attacking Kirk from the right. They turned him into a caricature of all that they detested: Faux-populism, Zionism + anti-white policy, astroturfed by billionaires and establishment elites who would sell out their race for political power
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Mar 19
Happening now in Texas: Cindy Clemishire, whose disclosures led to the indictment of megachurch pastor Robert Morris, is testifying in favor of a bill that'd ban NDAs in settlements for sexual abuse lawsuits. #txlege
Rep. Jeff Leach: "You either stand with victims or you stand with the people who harmed them. There is no middle ground." #txlege
Rep. Mitch Little also sitting in on this committee, decrying the "soul murder" of clergy abuse. Little represented the family who sued The Village, a Dallas-area megachurch, after their daughter was abused by a church leader.
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Mar 8
I’ve spent nearly a decade covering evangelicals and then far-right extremism. The overlap was always there but has drastically accelerated as of late — due in part to the view, prominent in Eva circles, that online is not real life or that the fringe will stay fringe.
I say this because I think that there is the potential for Evangelicals to see this steadily rising Nazi movement in their ranks and shirk it off as fringe. It is. But so was QAnon, election denialism, COVID conspiracies, etc
I’m not smart and don’t have an answer. But I can say with certainty: treating this as something that’ll dissipate with time will prove a fatal miscalculation. Platforms are already built and getting bigger. So are followings and comfort with saying quiet parts out loud.
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Megan Basham is scheduled to speak in January to True Texas Project, the far-right group whose leaders sympathized with the El Paso WalMart gunman and just held a Christian nationalism conference that claimed Dems want to "rid the earth of the white race."
True Texas Project's recent conference included panels that defended Great Replacement Theory, claimed "forced multiculturalism" is a conspiracy to destroy white people, and encouraged attendees to embrace being called white nationalists or supremacists.
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Speakers included a longtime collaborator of prominent eugenicists/white nationalists such as Richard Spencer. The event was so extreme that two of the farthest right figures in Texas - Louie Gohmert and Don Huffines - both pulled out as speakers.
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Oct 23, 2024
🧵🧵In 2022, Elvie Kingston’s dementia took a turn for the worse. A doctor said the oil-rich conservative activist couldn’t manage a bank account or dress alone - but could sign legal docs removing her family's control of her health/finances.

Enter a Texas Supreme Court justice:
Since 2022, Texas Supreme Court Justice John Devine has overseen Kingston's trust. He claims they are basically family. Legal experts say he is clearly violating ethics rules that explicitly bar judges from such positions to avoid conflicts of interest + appearance of impropriety Image
Devine's wife, Nubia, is also Kingston's guardian - giving the couple wide control over her health, finances and life. The arrangement has been adamantly opposed by Kingston's family + some friends, who say she was once close to the Devines but had a massive falling out.
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