Read your evangelical church membership agreement if you ever expect justice in Texas and maybe other states.
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Read your evangelical church membership agreement if you ever expect justice in Texas and maybe other states.
From the NY Times
An 11 year old girl was sexually assaulted at a church camp run by The Village, a megachurch in Hurst TX. Her abuser was the church's associate youth minister. He's been arrested and charged.
From the link:
Exactly one year before that day, on Feb. 17, 2018, Ms. Bragg and her husband, Matt, reported to the Village that their daughter, at about age 11, had been sexually abused at the church’s summer camp for children.
Since then, Matthew Tonne, who was the church’s associate children’s minister, had been investigated by the police, indicted and arrested on charges of sexually molesting Ms. Bragg’s daughter.
Ms. Bragg waited for church leaders to explain what had happened and to thoroughly inform other families in the congregation. She waited for the Village to take responsibility and apologize. She waited to have even one conversation with Mr. Chandler, a leader she had long admired.
But none of that ever came.
I'm not shocked by the hypocrisy. Megachurches are big business. However I was shocked when I read of the fancy legal work churchs are putting into their membership agreements after seeing the Roman Catholic Church having to pay victims of abuse by their clergy.
From the link:
The Village, like many other evangelical churches, uses a written membership agreement containing legal clauses that protect the institution. The Village’s agreement prohibits members from suing the church and instead requires mediation and then binding arbitration, legal processes that often happen in secret.
The Village also uses an abuse prevention company called MinistrySafe, which many evangelical churches cite as an accountability safeguard. Ms. Bragg assumed that MinistrySafe would advocate for her daughter, but then she learned that the group’s leaders were the church’s legal advisers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/us/southern-baptist-convention-sex-abuse.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
An 11 year old girl was sexually assaulted at a church camp run by The Village, a megachurch in Hurst TX. Her abuser was the church's associate youth minister. He's been arrested and charged.
From the link:
Exactly one year before that day, on Feb. 17, 2018, Ms. Bragg and her husband, Matt, reported to the Village that their daughter, at about age 11, had been sexually abused at the church’s summer camp for children.
Since then, Matthew Tonne, who was the church’s associate children’s minister, had been investigated by the police, indicted and arrested on charges of sexually molesting Ms. Bragg’s daughter.
Ms. Bragg waited for church leaders to explain what had happened and to thoroughly inform other families in the congregation. She waited for the Village to take responsibility and apologize. She waited to have even one conversation with Mr. Chandler, a leader she had long admired.
But none of that ever came.
I'm not shocked by the hypocrisy. Megachurches are big business. However I was shocked when I read of the fancy legal work churchs are putting into their membership agreements after seeing the Roman Catholic Church having to pay victims of abuse by their clergy.
From the link:
The Village, like many other evangelical churches, uses a written membership agreement containing legal clauses that protect the institution. The Village’s agreement prohibits members from suing the church and instead requires mediation and then binding arbitration, legal processes that often happen in secret.
The Village also uses an abuse prevention company called MinistrySafe, which many evangelical churches cite as an accountability safeguard. Ms. Bragg assumed that MinistrySafe would advocate for her daughter, but then she learned that the group’s leaders were the church’s legal advisers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/us/southern-baptist-convention-sex-abuse.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
GRR Spartan- Geronte
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Re: Read your evangelical church membership agreement if you ever expect justice in Texas and maybe other states.
I have a hard time believing that an 11 year old girl was sexually assaulted by someone associated with the religion that supports the racist, bigoted christian sexual predator.
Robert J Sakimano- Geronte
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Re: Read your evangelical church membership agreement if you ever expect justice in Texas and maybe other states.
It's too bad hell is make believe, because these fucks belong there.
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