Considering the scale of the Southern Baptist sex abuse scandal...

[Girard442]

...and their zeal for sweeping it all under the rug, isn't it likely that more than a few abortions resulted -- and some of those paid for by the abusers.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I surmised that Jerry Falwell Jr. and Liberty University were the tip of the iceberg.

[mopinko]

2. bet the farm.

[lindysalsagal]

3. As if we needed more reasons to tax and oversee church operations

Everyone else gets audited and inspected and has to follow government regulations. This is why they get away with turning their flock into their harems.

[cos dem]

4. Almost certainly. But they probably think that abortion laws won't apply to them.

Other laws don't apply to Republicans, so why would abortion laws be any different?

[blue sky at night]

11. this is it in a nutshell.........

thanks for hitting the nail on the head! (exactly the thinking they always use)

[LymphocyteLover]

17. God told them *their* abortion was ok, you know

[CanyaDigIt]

5. Yes.

Page 224.

"Submitter alleged that
church leadership ignored
her reports of sexual abuse
against her father, who was
employed by the church.
Submitter stated that a
church leader had assisted
in the forced delivery and
death of the child that was
the product of abuse.
Church allegedly fired the
abuser but failed to report it
to law enforcement or the
seminary.
1/2/20 1/15/20 1/20/20 5/28/20 Closed without
recommendation."

[Claire Oh Nette]

8. Projection

The right screams about aborting full term babies and infanticide BECAUSE THEY COMMIT IT IN THEIR CHURCHES!

Can't have his victim have a safe abortion. She underwent sexual assault, rape, and "forced delivery." Forced delivery. By church leaders. They can have all the forced deliveries they need, but the rest of us can't choose for ourselves.


Oh, and all that home schooling they love so much? Not a single mandated reporter.

The church wants its right to molest its flock. That's the America they want back.

[Girard442]

9. I don't even know what that means. A late-term abortion done by an amateur??

[LymphocyteLover]

18. wow!

[AllyCat]

21. Huh? Where is this? Link?

Forced delivery…so many meanings here. Just trying to suss this out.

[CanyaDigIt]

24. Here.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22031737-final-guidepost-solutions-independent-investigation-report?responsive=1&title=1

[AllyCat]

25. OMG. Impossible to tell where it occurred or in what manner, but

at this point, it hardly matters. Absolutely HORRIBLE all the way around this. And the other things in this document: just a cursory look is mind-blowing.

[Wounded Bear]

6. They're trying to outdo the Catholics...

[Politicub]

7. They don't care. They have never cared about hypocrisy.

They give themselves a fig leaf for repercussions with the idea of divine forgiveness for whatever egregious act they commit. Justice is not part of their theology -- only punishment for unbelievers.

[Lonestarblue]

10. We should also not forget that the Southern Baptists fully supported slavery and segregation.

They honored the KKK and preached for slavery from their pulpits. The SBC leadership finally acknowledged its support of slavery and white supremacy in 1995, though at least some of its pastors still use the Biblical story Ham and their racist interpretation to justify that black people are leaser humans than white people.

[Delphinus]

16. Thank you

This needs to be said and known.

[AllyCat]

22. Wow. Good point. Thank you for giving this some light

I hadn’t even thought about this.

[Buckeyeblue]

12. Yes. These people are cristofacist

[SWBTATTReg]

13. And ... obviously this has been going on forever too. What hypocrites. First to point their evil

fingers at everybody else and then secretly do the same damn thing as they accused others of doing.

But, it's Southern Baptists, I'm not surprised at their crap, they trot out the moral high road every time they need a line to pretend it's commanded by / from God and thus, its okay.

Supposedly doing God's work when secretly doing their dirty work behind the scenes. I hope that in the future, more people will veer away from yet again, another religious institution that isn't so clean after all. How can they save anyone else when they can't even keep their own house in order?

Sick. Just sick but I'm not surprised.

[Texin]

14. Girard442, it's more likely that any abortions were paid for from churchgoers tithes.

[llashram]

15. that whole

religious hierarchy is racist, sexist and abusive. And all about the Sunday money plate. They are snakes. Yes. I was part of that church at one time in my life... a good experience to learn about American Christian hypocrisy. They backed the institution of slavery.

[czarjak]

19. Just be baptized and you're Pearly Gate bound though?

[keithbvadu2]

20. The only moral abortion is my abortion

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+only+moral+abortion+is+my+abortion&sxsrf=ALiCzsYpumXc7qx79eXKRR2_wflmETy7kw%3A1653410852092&source=hp&ei=JAyNYuuBA4rXytMPicOtkAM&iflsig=AJiK0e8AAAAAYo0aNH7864DUhivF62EgBWUr0mGgOFCH&oq=the+only+moral+abortion&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYADIFCAAQgAQ6BAgjECc6EQguEIAEELEDEIMBEMcBEKMCOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToLCC4QsQMQgwEQ1AI6CAguELEDEIMBOhQILhCABBCxAxCDARDHARCjAhDUAjoLCC4QgAQQsQMQgwE6CwguEIAEELEDENQCOggIABCABBCxAzoICC4QgAQQ1AI6FAguEIAEELEDEIMBEMcBENEDENQCOgUILhCABDoOCC4QgAQQsQMQgwEQ1AI6CAguEIAEELEDOhEILhCABBCxAxCDARDHARDRAzoLCC4QgAQQxwEQrwE6BggAEB4QFjoFCAAQhgNQAFj5cmCUigFoAHAAeACAAc0DiAG-E5IBCDE2LjYuNC0xmAEAoAEB&sclient=gws-wiz

[Snackshack]

23. We literally have

Thousands and thousands of years of documented history of the church and religion filled with endless examples of bigotry, racism, violence and death…yet as a species we continue to hold on to religion even though it has shown example after example of why we should get rid of it.

[Skittles]

26. it kills me too, Snackshack

biggest cult con job in history, but people continue to suck it up - it is literal proof that people can be made to believe anything