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Within the period of a single week, Southern Baptists have been informed three times over concerning the heart-rendering circumstances of a very well-known evangelical leader embroiled in a legal nightmare:
But Southern Baptists did not learn of this civil-and may even end up criminal--fiasco from any news outlet connected directly with Southern Baptists. Instead we heard about it from ABP, a news agency many of us normally view as catering to “Moderate” or “Liberal” Baptists.
I know some of my questions inevitably get me into all kinds of trouble. Granted. But I have questions nonetheless. And, I would be dishonest if I indicated otherwise. So here’s my complicated question–Why? Why have we been strangely (irresponsibly?) silent about what’s going on here with something so close to Southern Baptists? It’s not like we have no stake in this issue. Mr. Mahaney is publicly connected with our oldest seminary for heaven’s sake. Mr. Mahaney remains on the speaking circuit amongst our entities. He’s advising our students, counselling our future pastors and missionaries, and assisting in training our church planters, all the while he’s personally named in a civil lawsuit which possesses over a hundred formal complaints of cover-up, abuse, and wrongful actions against several different plaintiffs, actions involving the sexual abuse of children (not that Mahaney himself has been accused of sexual wrongdoing; but the way I understand it is, he allegedly covered-up the abuse others actually committed). This is not a he-said-she-said piece of gossip or innuendo. Rather Mahaney must stand before a court of law and be judged on evidence as to his guilt or innocence.
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