I guess we shouldn't be shocked, but it turns out that the Southern Baptist Convention's sexual abuse "crisis" during the height of #MeToo was totally overblown.
During that time, former SBC chief Russell Moore oversaw an investigation into allegations that a seminary professor's 12-year affair with a woman was actually sexual abuse because there was a "power imbalance" between the two. A woman named Rachel Denhollander, a sexual abuse survivor's advocate, was then brought in by figures within the SBC to push the Convention toward certain goals involving woke ideology.
Well, a new ethics report from Clear Resources LLC, prepared by certified compliance and ethics professional Amy McDougal, concluded the following about the way Moore and other SBC leaders handled their own investigation:
Under the principles of due process and professional due care, Dr. Sills was entitled during the investigation to notice of the allegations against him and the substance of the evidence against him, an opportunity to respond and provide his own exculpatory evidence, and an impartial and objective fact-finder free of conflicts of interest, bias, and any interest in the outcome. In my professional opinion, the Guidepost investigation provided him none of these three due process pillars or the standards expected of a professional, independent investigation. The investigation was not legal, independent, fair, thorough, or objective.
Megan Basham has been banging this drum for years, but the release of Guidepost Global's report, which was hidden from the public until now, has proven her right.
She had thoughts about this new report:
... a show job to overhaul the largest and famously most conservative Protestant denomination in the US
That's not all, however. If you have the time to see how rotten the SBC leadership was, take a trip down the rabbit hole with me.
I'll let Basham take over from here:
The accused professor was mad after his years-long illicit relationship suddenly became "abuse" because his mistress suddenly decided there was a power imbalance.
Basham provided these two emails as proof that Jennifer Lyell was in love with Professor David Sills, "in which she says she cannot go a month without seeing him and repeatedly says she misses him."
Essentially, Basham says, the SBC threw the professor under the bus to fit its narrative because the professor did not respond to the investigation in the way they preferred.
Basham also alleged that SBC leadership picked Sills as a sacrificial lamb for their agenda while overlooking other cases of sexual sin (what would Jesus have to say?).
There's sketchy corruption and then there's ... whatever that is!
An absolute embarrassment to church leadership.
Not only did Lyell fit "several demographic factors for false rape allegations," she also had ... wait for it ... Rachel Denhollander listed on her will.
Let that sink in.
The woman the SBC brought in to push the claim of sexual abuse "crisis" was listed as a beneficiary on the will of the woman making a sexual abuse claim. 👇
Denhollander was also allowed to edit the Guidepost report, because of course.
According to Basham, Denhollander was also attempting to drum up more victims of abuse to add to the report while all of this was happening.
(Tell me, is there a word for misusing money and corroborating with false witnesses to push lies that allow you and your ideological allies to gain power? I can think of a few legal terms, and more than a few biblical ones!)
I'll let Megan have the last word, defending herself from her many interlocutors.
Go get 'em!
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