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Shining light on Baptist clergy sex abuse

The voice of SNAP Baptist |

"This little light of mine ...
I'm gonna let it shine"

This "little light" shines for the many other clergy abuse victims whose voices have been silenced. Silenced by shame. Silenced by the false instruction of religious leaders. Silenced by church shunning and bullying. Silenced by church contracts for secrecy. Silenced by suicide. The mission of StopBaptistPredators.org is to break the silence of Baptist clergy sex abuse.

"Christa Brown's saga resonates...

now that I'm a mother"

"My world shifted dramatically when I became a mother... and when I picked up Brown's recently published book, This Little Light..., I saw Brown's story with new eyes.... This Little Light should stir Baptist leaders to action."

Read Eileen Flynn in the Austin American-Statesman >

Kentucky Southern Baptist youth minister

indicted on sex charges

He worked at FBC-Lawrenceburg, Immanuel Baptist Church in Frankfort and others.

Read more > / See video >

"Book says SBC lacks system of preventing sexual abuse"

"Groundbreaking memoir and exposé...."

"Moving, eye-opening, shocking, and even suspenseful...."

This Little Light:

Beyond a Baptist Preacher Predator and His Gang >

Arkansas SBC music minister gets more time for plea because of "extensive evidence"

He faces 54 charges and there are more accusers with older accusations that cannot be prosecuted. Church member & city councilman says: "I believe it’s important if a Christian brother asks for forgiveness, we as Christians should accept that."

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette >

KTHV-TV news & video >

Benton Courier 4/28/09 & 5/6/09 & 6/8/09

TIME ranks Southern Baptists' rejection of sex-offender database as a top "underreported" news story of 2008

"The lack of hierarchical structure and systematized record-keeping... makes it harder... to track allegations of abuse."

TIME's top 10 story >

Associated Baptist Press >

Southern Baptists reject sex-abuse database

"Under pressure to fight child sex abuse, the SBC's executive committee said…the denomination should not create its own database to help churches identity predators or establish an office to field abuse claims.” Associated Press >

"Instead of protecting its followers from sexual predators, Nashville's Southern Baptist Convention leaves churches to fend for themselves." Nashville Scene >

"The very fact that Baptist churches are autonomous signals that they need the information that the convention could provide." Tennessean editorial >

"To argue that a list of Southern Baptist ministers who are sexual predators violates the self-government of a local church is illogical." Burleson op-ed >

"Baptists miss an opportunity." Dallas Morning News editorial >

"Holy hypocrisy!" Winson-Salem Journal editorial >

"The SBC prevaricates by saying ...

... that the creation of a Baptist database would just confuse matters." Marci Hamilton, Princeton law professor

Read more >

Convicted, confessed, or credibly accused:

Paul Williams	Bob Gray	Tommy Gilmore

Doug Myers	Larry Neathery	Larry Reynolds
More ministers of the Southern Baptist Convention
Disclaimers >

SNAP's
5 Requests for Action

The Brush-Off response of Southern Baptist officials

Child sex abuse by Protestant clergy may exceed abuse by Catholic priests

Insurance data shows 260 abuse reports per year for Protestant clergy compared to 228 annually for Catholic priests.

Read more >

Associated Press Report >

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