Y'all, I've been working on transcribing the email screenshots from @ladyjessicahaze 's July 3rd 🧵 for ACNAtoo.org 's launch & I'm more tired than @StewartRuch 's performative lament at failing the survivors of abuse in @MidwestAnglican.
Anyone want to help me out?
I just got to this tweet & need to transcribe the screenshots for it and all the Tweets w/ text screenshots after it.
If you want to help, 1. transcribe. 2. DM me the transcription with the relevant tweet 3. retweet the tweet you transcribed in the comments of this thread and let others know it's done so we don't duplicate labor.
The initial goal of the ACNAtoo.org website will be to get the story of how @MidwestAnglican has handled the abuse crisis out to a wider audience b/c most people are not on Twitter & most of the people in @The_ACNA have no idea what is going on.
We need to get the screenshots of texts transcribed quickly (without adding more labor to survivors or their team) so the text can be readable and searchable by readers who do not do Twitter on their smartphones and laptops.
Despite my endless impulse to think well of people, I think @The_ACNA leadership is going to do about a good a job at informing its people about what is going on as @StewartRuch did about informing the @ChurchRez about Mark Rivera's known activities, # of victims, charges, etc
If we want @The_ACNA to be a safe place & want to stay in our beloved parishes with clear consciences, we need to get some grassroots momentum to hold the hierarchy accountable and demand that they adopt higher standards for prevention & response to abuse.
Y'all- I just noticed that @ladyjessicahaze liked the first tweet of this thread- she is not allowed to help me out because members of the kind of denomination ACNA members want to be a part of don't make survivors and their team do unnecessary labor.😘
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Are there any @The_ACNA children's ministers, volunteers, or clergy who have some experience w/abuse prevention training & would be willing to step it up and lead an FB group of ACNA people interested in collaborating on improved abuse prevention & response policies? #ACNAtoo
@scotmcknight@BpToddHunter@The_ACNA@C4SO Probably not. I haven't looked at details of any policies, but this is literally the ONLY diocese in ACNA that expresses ANY sort of concern for whistleblower protection on their website.
@scotmcknight@BpToddHunter@The_ACNA@C4SO I am guessing that as I look through the documents, I will not find ANY diocese that has policies on how to conduct investigations in ways that are victim-centered & trauma informed. This hasn't been thought through.
@scotmcknight@BpToddHunter@The_ACNA@C4SO As a lay person, it's not clear to me how diocesan policies on abuse prevention & response are developed. Presumably, @The_ACNA has some minimum standards a diocese must meet, yes?
Spending my day compiling a list of ACNA resources by diocese posted on diocesan websites on abuse prevention and response policies. Shout out to Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others for featuring an easy-to-find page, clear reporting procedures, & whistleblower protection.
@C4SO 's website is definitely the best so far in terms of making it easy for victims to report and in including other forms of abuse as areas of concern other than child sexual abuse. Well done. Other @The_ACNA - take notes.
This points to a broader institutional pronlem in which @The_ACNA either lacks protocols & standards that conform to readily available best practices for responding to sexual abuse allegations...
Most of your fellow parishioners do not know about the mishandling of sexual abuse allegations in @MidwestAnglican by @StewartRuch under the nat'l leadership of @ArchbishopFoley.
What is abundantly evident from this thread is that @StewartRuch needs to resign. He can't even plead that he is a sincere guy with good intentions that just got in over his head & didn't know what he was doing. He had abundant opportunities to adopt best practices.
@StewartRuch & those who love him & respect him may be able to assure themselves that he was just trying to do the best he cld in an awful & complex situation. Nice, sincere people can be arrogant & in love with their own judgment for no good reason. They can even become bishops.
Men who are this unteachable should not be bishops in @The_ACNA , no matter how upstanding & sincere & well-intentioned they & their friends understand these men to be.