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| SNAP Goes to Nashville...again |
Billy Graham's statue extends its arms, but there was no welcome mat for SNAP in Nashville. |
- See SNAP in Nashville on YouTube (February 19, 2007)
- Reported in papers all across the country, SNAP turns its attention to America's largest Protestant denomination and urges the Southern Baptist Convention to take action against clergy child molesters
- "No one wants to see a repeat of the Catholic sex-abuse and cover-up scandal, but unless Southern Baptists start dealing with the problem effectively and compassionately, that may happen."
- Surprise! SNAP's requests are on the agenda.
SNAP leaders speak to SBC Executive Committee subgroup
- SNAP apologizes to SBC Execs for saying they hadn't responded to SNAP's 9/26 letter with requests for action.
- The SBC's letter of 9/29. SBC president Frank Page says this shows they made "every effort to communicate with SNAP." Yet, the letter's last sentence says "continued discourse between us will not be positive or fruitful." Is that the SBC's notion of "every effort?" Compare the tone of the SBC's 9/29 letter with the tone of SNAP's 9/26 letter.
- The SBC wastes no time mobilizing its Baptist Press to mischaracterize SNAP's apology. It says SNAP made "false accusations" and "false charges." Amazing. The SBC's 9/29 letter was such a terse brush-off that it was actually worse than no response at all, and yet they act as though it gave them bragging rights. SNAP cries foul. SNAP says Southern Baptist leaders are still unresponsive to problem of clergy sex abuse. Read more: "Mistakes, apologies and clergy child molesters."
- Former SBC president Jerry Vines defends the denomination on clergy sex abuse. (This is the same guy who, just months ago, praised Trinity Baptist even while its founding pastor, Robert Gray, awaits trial on child molestation charges, with 22 victims having now come forward.)
- "At the end of the day, no child is any safer now than they were before."
- SBC leaders make excuses similar to Catholic bishops' pre-2002 excuses, and even as they talk, a South Carolina case comes to light....How many more before action is taken?
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