How much do Southern Baptists budget for dealing with clerical sex abuse?
There is no reason to believe Southern Baptist clergy or protestant clergy in general are less sexually abusive than Catholic priests. So you might expect the big protestant denominations so budget substantial amounts of money to controlling the problem.
Yet when Christa Brown looked “at the 2011 proposed budget for the largest statewide Baptist organization in the country” — the Baptist General Convention of Texas — she found just $3,504 allocated to “clergy sexual misconduct.”
November 17, 2010 -
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Southern Baptists are independent so this question would only have relevance if you were to ask it of individual congregations.
Comment by Wes Widner | November 18, 2010
An interesting point Christa has recently addressed here, here and elsewhere. That Robert Parham of Ethics Daily has recently addressed here and earlier, in detail here. We’ve also spoken repeatedly to the autonomy issue (smokescreen). As have others.
Thank you for bringing autonomy up again.
It also arises, BTW, with regard to women in the pulpit.
Comment by baptistplanet | November 18, 2010