Prominent Baptist leader removed as head of Texas seminary

[TexasTowelie]

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former head of the Southern Baptist Convention was removed Wednesday as president of a Texas seminary following allegations of "unbiblical teaching" through sexist and demeaning comments to women who he suggests should tolerate abuse.

The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary board of trustees said in a statement that 75-year-old Paige Patterson was dismissed following a 13-hour meeting "to move in the direction of new leadership for the benefit of the future mission of the Seminary."

The board named Patterson president emeritus with unspecified pay and will allow him and his wife to continue to live on campus as theologians-in-residence.

The statement does not directly address Patterson's alleged comments. He's accused of remarking on a teenage girl's body, saying female seminarians should work hard to look attractive and that abused women should almost always stay with their husbands.

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[Ilsa]

1. What a gig. Get fired, but you still get to live on the premises.

How narrow-minded does this old fart have to be to insist that women stay with their abusers?

[TexasTowelie]

2. Don't forget the check that he will still be getting.

What a gig, indeed.

[Mariana]

3. You might get the idea that they only fired him

because of the bad publicity, and not because they disagree with anything he said.

[RKP5637]

4. There's big money to be made in religion. Screw up, doesn't matter. And the flocks will continue to

be fleeced.