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The Southern Baptist Convention handles sexual abuse claims as it voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to support measures to track pastors in the church who have credible sexual claims against them. I’m changing the method.
The Church also launched a new task force overseeing additional changes within the Protestant Church during a national conference in Anaheim on Tuesday, following reports showing that leaders routinely mishandled abuse cases. Voted to help.
The previously discovered bomb report put together a 205-page list of the names of abusers in the church and allegations against them.
Thousands of Southern Baptist Conventions voted to support the new measures, but some additional reforms sought by survivors of abuse were not adopted.
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Additional measures that were not supported by a sufficient number of members included a compensation fund for victims abused by church leaders and an independent committee to monitor the internal affairs of the church.
Bruce Frank, who headed the task force that initialized the reform process, told members at the convention that the steps they voted for to carry out were “minimal” and he would continue to push for further reforms. ..
He also said that the work of the church should be “protecting sheep from wolves.”
“How do you tell the watching world that Jesus died for them … when his church does not do his best to protect them?” Frank told a group of ministers. I asked.
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The Southern Baptist Convention is now using a database to track pastors who make credible claims to them, and suspects could move freely from church to church and hurt more victims. Guarantee that there is no.
He also acknowledged the cost of implementing the change, saying that “it will not cost as much as the survivors paid.”
Abuse survivors who attended the convention said they were honored that the members voted to implement the change and called them “a healthy and healing step in the right direction.”
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Another survivor of the abuse tweeted after the event, saying the change was a good start.
“I know people who like happy endings, but I don’t feel them,” the woman tweeted. “I feel sad. It’s better than nothing, but it’s a very low bar.”
The Southern Baptist Convention also elects Rev. Bart Barber, a new SBC Rev. in Texas, who strongly supports the Southern Baptist Convention’s conservative view, but states that it has a track record of dialogue with opponents. Did.
He called for a “peacebuilder’s army” in a fierce political battle in the country’s largest Protestant denomination. His closest rival, Tom Ascol, complained that there was too much “awakening” of the sect and tried to move it further to the right.
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Additional measures were discussed to remove the Saddleback Church, a California megachurch led by Rick Warren, from the sect to appoint a woman as a minister, but no vote was obtained. The sect only allows men to become ministers.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.