Thread by @RobDownenChron

A reminder that there was a recent effort to censure ⁦@jdgreear⁩ because he said churches should consider Paige Patterson’s history before hosting him.

~10yrs ago, Patterson called ⁦⁦@ChristaBrown777⁩ & other rape survivors “as reprehensible as sex criminals.”

Off hand I can name at least a few other people just on this site who would say they were libeled by Paige and others.

So I guess I’m wondering why, given that libeling teenagers is now such a concern, there was an effort to silence an SBC president who spoke out.

Granted, the Covington students’ situation is a bit different.

They were teenagers when the “libel” against them occurred, whereas Christa and other were children when they were assaulted, but adults by the time they were called “as reprehensible as sex criminals.”

So

Also just wanna go on record that I hate this website

Here are the comments from Greear that sparked such a backlash among a few executive committee members.

houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

So just to recap:

-Digging up old Beth Moore tweets that she quickly corrrected 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

-The president of theSouthern Baptist Convention noting Paige Patterson’s well-documented fall from grace? 🙅🏻‍♂️🙅🏻‍♂️🙅🏻‍♂️

Maybe Patterson misspoke when he called Christa “as reprehensible” as the man who stole her childhood. We don’t kno because few other Baptist “leaders” concerned themselves

Point being im glad Baptist leaders now concern themselves when falsities are spread about innocent people

Which is why I have not a single shred of doubt that these SBC leaders, now understanding the cruelty of libeling the innocent, will be demanding full reviews of what was done to Debbie Vasquez and, even more recently, @jenlyell

To not do so would be hypocritical, no?

Related: Apple really needs to make italics font happen so that this entire thread can be read with the eye-rolling sarcasm in which it’s meant to be read

I think it’s good SBC leaders, once silenced by local church autonomy, have found their voices to hold one another to account.

These things take time, but I’m confident that once they confront the immediate threat of Beth Moore, they’ll start asking Paul Pressler some questions.

“As reprensive as sex criminals.”

Just think about someone saying that to your child. Then imagine the person who said it is not just a pastor, but the most influential person in a 15M person denom.

And they said it because your child wanted to spare other children from abuse.

Its a stunningly cruel thing to even think, let alone say

Paige Patterson thought it, wrote it down in an email — and then sent that email **to another abuse survivor who was asking for help**

So again, I ask: Why was there pushback when JD Greear advised churches about Paige?

Was it bc Christa was an adult when Paige wrote it? If she’d been 17 years and 364 days old, would someone have held him accountable?

All of this was known when the EC met in April. Yet the focus was shutting up JD Greear because he noted one part of what’s known about Patterson

OHYEAH! the abuse survivor to whom Paige Patterson sent that email?

It was Debbie Vasquez, who i mentioned above/has always said her story was muddied.

Does a gentle Christian woman’s 4-decade quest for justice deserve concern? Or is that only reserved for Beth Moore tweets?

I already know the answer, because I've read the emails Debbie sent and continues to send.

Some of them went to the ppl who were later involved in what was done to @jenlyell

Should Debbie change her last name to Moore? Would that be enough cause for concern?