tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874123597623259718.post5691615588737030700..comments2024-03-17T16:21:14.907-05:00Comments on Stop Baptist Predators: Lackadaisical leadership and faulty forgivenessChrista Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560409585720043015noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874123597623259718.post-64147580102533158492007-08-28T08:43:00.000-05:002007-08-28T08:43:00.000-05:00Holytoledo and anonymous - welcome to the blog! My...Holytoledo and anonymous - welcome to the blog! My own perpetrator was a minister in churches, both in Texas and Florida, where other staff ministers had been reported for sexual abuse, assault, and harassment of adult congregants. People turned a blind-eye or covered up those accounts, and then when my report of having been sexually assaulted as a kid came along, no one did anything about that either. So, I think you're right that others often stay quiet because they don't want they're worried about their own skeletons getting loose. But I also believe this pattern not only extends to other staff ministers who stay quiet about sexual abuse committed by colleagues, but also to state and national denominational leaders who find every excuse imaginable for turning a blind-eye and lump it all under the label of "local church autonomy" and meanwhile, the real world practical effect is that clergy child molesters stay in their pulpits and no one actually does anything.Christa Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04560409585720043015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874123597623259718.post-73975952259373333672007-08-28T08:06:00.000-05:002007-08-28T08:06:00.000-05:00I think that anonymous is touching on an important...I think that anonymous is touching on an important issue that causes a "strangle-hold" on the issue of actually doing something. <BR/><BR/>In the catholic church, you saw priests who ignored their brother priests tendency to always have a young boy/girl "on their arm." They ignored the priest having repeated private appointments with the "young boy/girl." <BR/><BR/>Why? <BR/><BR/>Because so many of them have sexual skeletons hanging in the their closets. Maybe they aren't criminal like child sexual abuse, but they are infidelities, deviancies like pornography addiction, etc. <BR/><BR/>I knew a priest who kept a mistress for 20 plus years who actually articulated that he could not say anything about a priest perping a kid because he was "not without sin himself." <BR/><BR/>Wowza!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874123597623259718.post-32901962632889724552007-08-26T17:49:00.000-05:002007-08-26T17:49:00.000-05:00Christa...It is hard for a minister to see and und...Christa...<BR/>It is hard for a minister to see and understand the harm done by Satan in expressing a world view. Hamby's lack of concern regarding looking into other's past is directly tied to his adultery that led to his divorce. The new Mrs. Hamby is/was his "mistress" while he was married and ministering in Morocco, IN. That church turned a blind eye and so he can only expect to receive the same treatment. <BR/>It is not only the "KNOWN SEX OFFENDERS' that cause the shame in our church families, but those who ALLOW this to go on for fear of losing face or publicity. Thank you for your tenacity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com