By Lonnie Wilkey
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
NASHVILLE — Judging from reactions on social media and other outlets, some Southern Baptists are unhappy with the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Though the Executive Committee agreed to fund up to $1.6 million for an independent investigation into allegations of the mishandling of sexual abuse claims, it stopped short of waiving attorney-client privilege, according to a Baptist Press report.
Members of the EC who voted to waive the attorney-client privilege claim the Executive Committee is failing to heed to the will of the convention, which voted in June to have a task force appointed that would oversee a third party “investigation into any allegations of abuse, mishandling of abuse, mistreatment of victims, a pattern of intimidation of victims or advocates, and resistance to sexual abuse reform initiatives,” according to the motion presented by Tennessee pastor Grant Gaines of Belle Aire Baptist Church in Murfreesboro. [Read more…]