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Note what is taking place here:

1. A woman is coming to the SBC pastor's conference to perform a piece during worship.

Her role in her own church is as pastor, in conflict with the SBC BFM.

What are leaders doing given this?

The potential responses on the table include:
Withholding ALL Executive Committee funds until she is disinvited.

A joint letter from SBC pastors in protest of her role.

A call for "every" SBC pastor to be on the phone with SBC leaders immediately.

A boycott.

Robust public denouncement.
A call for her to publicly repent.

Laments that people "like that" will care about image and will never repent.

But now I have a question:
Where were the calls for public repentance when Paige Patterson and Jerry Vines repeatedly put sexual abuser Daryl Gilyard into the pulpit?

Where was the outcry when they slandered the women who'd reported him?
Why haven't funds been witheld from the Baptist Press, which defamed Jen Lyell and Debbie Vasquez, letting violent rapists go free and ruining these women?
Where are the calls for "every " pastor to be on the phone everytime Christa Brown identified yet another predator still in the pulpit?

Where was the public outcry when abuser Wes Feltner was going to be called to an SBC church just a few months ago?
Where are the joint letters when Paige Patterson took the pulpit again after being forced to resign due to repeatedly covering up sexual assault?

Where was the support for Susan Codone when an SBC pastor reported her warning against Patterson, to Twitter, shutting her down?
Where is the outcry against Steve Bradlee for covering up the abuse of Jules Woodson?

Where, where, where?

Where were these calls to action when women and children and young men were behind raped by pastors, who were then protected by pastors?

And WHY were they not there?
Because sexual abuse isn't seen as that big of a deal. Nor is covering it up.

That's why.
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