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Opinion | The report on Southern Baptist abuses is a portrait of brutal misogyny - The Washington Post

In <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22031737-final-guidepost-solutions-independent-investigation-report?responsive=1&title=1" target=_blank>nearly 300 pages</a>, a third-party investigator has produced the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report" target=_blank>Warren Commission report</a>, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/911report/documents/911Report.pdf" target=_blank>9/11 Commission report</a>, of Southern Baptist Christianity. And the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/05/22/southern-baptist-sex-abuse-report/" target=_blank>scale of malfeasance</a> is truly shocking.

Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says

At issue is sexual predation by Southern Baptist pastors and the further abuse of victims by indifferent and hostile church officials. According to the “Report of the Independent Investigation,” credible accusations of sexual abuse that came to Southern Baptist leaders were routinely ignored to avoid legal liability or were referred back to unprepared local congregations.

Survivors’ calls and emails, the report asserts, were “met, time and time again, with resistance, stonewalling, and even outright hostility.” When victims organized to draw attention to their suffering, some church officials treated them as instruments of Satan, intent on distracting the church from its real mission of evangelism.

The report depicts the abuses in Technicolor detail. Consider a meeting between one survivor, Christa Brown, and the Southern Baptist Convention’s bylaws work group. “Some opposed her even being allowed to speak,” the report states, and an Executive Committee member “turned his back to her during her speech and another chortled.”

Is it possible to imagine a more cartoonish version of misogynist evil than a male ecclesiastical leader chortling in response to an abused woman’s story?

The main responses of the SBC, described in the report, have been to minimize allegations and undermine victims. Some Executive Committee members have referred to survivors as “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/06/05/russell-moore-southern-baptist-sex-abuse-allegations/" target=_blank>Potiphar’s wife</a>” — a biblical character who makes a false accusation of rape.

In 2007, <a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/march/frank-page-resigns-southern-baptist-executive-committee-sbc.html" target=_blank>Frank Page</a>, the SBC’s president at the time, wrote: “Please be aware that there are groups that are nothing more than opportunistic persons who are seeking to raise opportunities for personal gain.”  In a 2008 email, Paige Patterson, a former SBC president who at the time served as president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, referred to one survivors’ group as “just as reprehensible as sex criminals.”  In 2018, the report reminds us, “Dr. Patterson was fired by SWBTS after he was accused of telling a student not to report a rape in 2003 and, in 2015, of emailing his intention to meet with another student who had reported an assault, with no other officials present, so he could ‘break her down.’”

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This is not Christianity. It is a culture of brutal chauvinism that has grown up for generations around Christianity. When it comes to protecting abusers, the largest American Protestant denomination is in the same vile category as the Catholic Church. An utter failure to prioritize abused women and children is the largest crisis of institutional religion in the United States.

The Southern Baptist Convention must have realized it was dealing with highly explosive information. For years, it denied keeping a list of abusers. That turned out to be a lie. By August 2018, staff at the Executive Committee had a file of 585 possible abusers.  But the purpose of that internal list was institutional self-protection from lawsuits.

There is a warning here for any organization — what might be called the irony of institutional identity. When the primary mission of an institution is to defend itself, it is at grave risk of losing itself. Self-serving moral compromises come easier and easier. The Nixon White House believed that saving the United States required saving its administration through increasingly bold criminality. The Catholic Church believed that its holy mission required the burial of grave crimes against the innocent.

“Their main concern,” the report says of the SBC’s leaders, “was avoiding any potential liability for the SBC.”  Consider that for a moment. Their main concern was not women and children who were violated by sexual predators. It was the limitation of their legal exposure. What does that say about the content and quality of their beliefs?

There is also a warning here specifically to Christian institutions. When pastors believe that the importance of their mission — reaching the lost, spreading the Gospel — somehow justifies the concealment of terrible crimes, they have crossed the line into heresy. The Christian message can never be advanced through strategic lies. Deception is its magnetic opposite. Often these justifications of sin in the cause of salvation are not really attempts to protect an institution from harm; they are attempts to protect the elites who run an institution from exposure.

Former SBC official Russell Moore calls the revelations in the report “<a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/may-web-only/southern-baptist-abuse-apocalypse-russell-moore.html" target=_blank>evil and systemic</a>.” Those who deny the possibility that evil can be systemic must read this damning document.

Men who intimidate victims, cover up cruelty and blame survivors for their own abuse have shaped the values and ethos of a major Christian institution. This is much more than religious hypocrisy. It is the sign of a church that has lost its first love.

Michael Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Post.

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Opinion | How covid complacency and ideology killed 1 million Americans - The Washington Post

When Johns Hopkins University <a href="https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220517/us-covid-deaths-hit-1-million-history-should-judge-us?src=rss_public" target=_blank>announced</a> that the United States had surpassed 1 million deaths from covid-19, I was recovering from my first (and hopefully last) bout of the disease. I had prepared as much as I could — shout-out to Pfizer — so the infection passed like a nasty flu. Earlier in the crisis, an immunocompromised man in his late 50s, as I am, might have ended up in the hospital, on a ventilator, a coin flip away from eternity.

In a way, I now feel more connected with people whose lives have been touched by covid. But of course, many lives have not been just touched but crushed by the disease. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/how-many-people-died-covid-united-states-1-million-graphic/" target=_blank>The cost of 1 million friends and relatives</a> lost during the past 27 months resists summary and comparison. There is no adequate scale on which to measure this mass of grief.

Yet trying is better than living in denial — pretending that the hurricane never passed or the earthquake never happened. At its worst, covid-19 became the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/s0422-third-leading-cause.html" target="_blank">third leading cause of death</a> in the United States, behind heart disease and cancer. The country saw its <a href="https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-09-27-covid-19-has-caused-biggest-decrease-life-expectancy-world-war-ii" target="_blank">largest drop in life expectancy since World War II</a>. <a href="https://www.hiddenpain.us/" target="_blank">More than 200,000 children</a> have lost a parent or caregiver.

People try to grapple with this experience in different ways. My interpretive construct is global health in other countries. The United States is quite good at saving people from infectious diseases in other places. The <a href="https://www.hiv.gov/federal-response/pepfar-global-aids/pepfar#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20President's%20Emergency%20Plan,through%20the%20American%20people's%20generosity." target=_blank>President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief</a> has saved more than 20 million lives since 2003. The <a href="https://www.pmi.gov/" target=_blank>President’s Malaria Initiative</a> has reduced malaria death rates by about 50 percent in the countries where it operates. In the process, it has saved the lives of roughly <a href="https://www.pmi.gov/u-s-malaria-donations-saved-almost-2-million-african-children/" target=_blank>2 million children</a>.

When I have visited these programs abroad, I have seen how health technology plays an important role — things such as antiretroviral drugs and long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets. But the progress made depends on the human factor of adherence: taking the pills every day, even when you don’t feel sick, and putting up the bed net every night without fail. Adherence to AIDS medicines was spotty at first because Africans sometimes distrusted Western medicine and turned to traditional healers. But over time, people saw the immediate, nearly miraculous healing power of the AIDS drugs in their friends and neighbors. Soon stigma was reduced, and AIDS patients in most places were achieving Western levels of adherence.

Now imagine yourself part of a country seeking to help the United States with its covid-19 crisis. You are trying to deliver a miraculous vaccine that deters most infection and nearly guarantees freedom from severe disease. The key, as always, is adherence. But there is a powerful Red Faction — dominant in much of the country — that is partial to quack treatments, distrustful of modern medicine and resistant to vaccines (and mask-wearing) as a point of political pride.

Surely, over time, the Red Faction would witness the health benefits of three or four jabs of a needle. Surely it would refuse to take health advice from wacko politicians and unreliable community healers. Surely the stigma would fade as the vaccine proved safe and effective.

But no. After more than two years, California reached <a href="https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/covid-19-vaccines-distribution/" target="_blank">more than 70 percent with full vaccine coverage</a>. But a large number of states — including Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama, Wyoming, Indiana — have <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-tracker" target="_blank">barely reached 50 percent</a>. While about half of residents are well protected in these states, little has been accomplished in building the kind of herd immunity that protects a whole community.

The Post's View: One million died. It didn’t have to happen — and it must not again.

In any normal vaccination campaign — with the goal of 80 to 90 percent uptake — this would be judged a failure. A donor country would be forced to reconsider its methods. And questions would naturally arise: Why would a country with a relatively advanced health system have the highest number of covid deaths in the world? Why were health outcomes so dramatically influenced by class and race? Why didn’t efficacy eventually override stigma? Does this Red Faction have <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/08/omicron-deaths-covid/" target=_blank>contempt for its elders</a>, as indicated by who has taken the brunt of the casualties? Is this country prepared for any crisis requiring communal action?

There is another question that seems the most unexpected, at least to me. Since death rates for vaccinated people are fully <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/12/jen-psaki/data-suggests-unvaccinated-are-20-times-more-likel/" target=_blank>20 times lower</a> than for the unvaccinated, what force, what faith, what ideology has led a large portion of the country to live so recklessly? We are dealing with a form of polarization that is stronger than self-preservation — a kind of populism that causes populists to die.

Yet most Americans still float down covid river, living in denial of the rocks ahead: new variants, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/12/stop-dismissing-long-covid-pandemic-symptoms/" target="_blank">long covid</a>, continuing deaths. Who would have predicted that so many people’s response to an existential crisis should be folk cures and complacency.

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Ten People Killed In Mass Shooting At Buffalo Food Market

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Opinion | GOP leaders ought to banish politicians who embrace replacement theory - The Washington Post

The memorial dedicated by the White townspeople of Colfax, La., in 1921  was at least direct. Many Southern monuments to Confederate heroes erected in this era are made up only of an image and a name. But on the white marble obelisk in Colfax was <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-this-the-nations-nastiest-monument" target=_blank>engraved</a>: “Erected to the memory of the heroes, Stephen Decatur Parish, James West Hadnot, Sidney Harris, who fell in the Colfax riot fighting for white supremacy.”

The Colfax conflict was less a riot and more a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/08/not-far-tulsa-quieter-consequential-correction-historical-record/" target=_blank>frenzied murder spree</a> against Black citizens who were resisting white supremacy. Most of the “rioters” took refuge in the local courthouse. The building was <a href="https://64parishes.org/entry/colfax-massacre" target=_blank>set aflame</a>. Whites shot anyone who tried to put out the fire. Many Black people who tried to escape were <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1873-colfax-massacre-crippled-reconstruction-180958746/" target=_blank>slaughtered at close range</a>. Later in the evening, drunk, younger White men executed the remaining prisoners by marching them two by two out of a makeshift jail and shooting them from behind. By the end of the massacre, as many as 80 Black people were dead.

All these heinous crimes were committed with impunity. Local law enforcement had no intention of arresting and convicting the guilty. The Black people of Colfax, according to historian Nicholas Lemann, “had no choice but to live meekly under the rule of the men who had killed their husbands and sons and brothers.”

I recount this story not only because it is tragic but also because it demonstrates some enduring characteristics of white supremacy. The White people in this case were not merely acting out of racial animus (though their cups runneth over with hatred). The prejudice and violence of many White Southerners were incited and sustained by a certain historical narrative. They generally believed that violent actions by Whites — eventually organized by the Ku Klux Klan and the White League — were fundamentally defensive in nature.

After the Civil War, in this view, a cabal of carpetbaggers and vindictive Black officials was attempting to destroy the Southern way of life. Whites were resisting a culture war being conducted against them.

This vision of victimization was set out in films such as “The Birth of a Nation,” screened by President Woodrow Wilson at the White House in 1915. Such cultural products lent credibility to White fears and knit these fears into a compelling conspiracy theory — one reinforced by newspapers, educational institutions, politicians and movie night at the White House. It was hard to separate such theories from efforts across the South to intimidate Black people through lynching and mass violence.

These thoughts came to mind with the Buffalo grocery store massacre. The accused killer wrote a manifesto endorsing the “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/15/buffalo-shooter-great-replacement-extremism/" target=_blank>great replacement theory</a>,” popular among today’s right-wing activists and media personalities. In this belief, the progressive left is encouraging the unfiltered immigration of fecund non-Whites to replace White citizens, dilute White political influence and destroy White culture. In some instances, the story alleges that the whole plot is being orchestrated by Jews.

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Replacement theory checks many of the boxes of useful racist ideology. Most of all, it presents White people as the victims of a plot. Their anger and resentment, in this theory, are natural reactions to the cultural aggression of the other side. Their failures and suffering are no longer their fault. There are always enemies to blame. The future of White, Christian America is at stake. Those willing to fight for it, in this self-justifying myth, are heroes.

Do the purveyors of replacement theory <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/15/buffalo-shooting-replacement-theory-white-supremacy/" target="_blank">bear some responsibility</a> when their revisionism motivates murderers? Of course they do. This dispute has become tiresome and pointless. There is no moral world in which those who libel outsiders, justify rage, incite bigotry and allege that enemies have broken down the outer gate are innocent of the likely influence of their words.

And the method of mass killing is not some insane, unimaginable, unknown act of evil — something committed by the demon possessed. Lynchings and large-scale terrorist murder were relatively common features of the post-Civil War political order, designed to intimidate Black people and undo that war’s outcome. If the Buffalo supermarket killer’s motivation was to undo the anti-racism of modernity, he is part of a long, ignoble history of racist killers.

Opinion: The Black victims of the Buffalo shooting were killed by white supremacy

The perpetrator of this mass murder will not be given impunity. But the racist ideas closely associated with such killing are being granted impunity daily within the Republican Party. The problem is not just that a few loudmouths are saying racist things. It is the general refusal of Republican “leaders” to excommunicate officials who embrace replacement theory. The refusal of Fox News to fire the smiling, public faces of a dangerous, racist ideology.

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