Southern Baptist leader pushes back after comments leak urging abused women to pray and avoid divorc
Source: Washington Post
The Washington Post
Michelle Boorstein
5 hrs ago
The leader of a major Southern Baptist seminary issued a statement Sunday pushing back after a 2000 tape surfaced purporting to quote him saying that abused women should focus on praying and be submissive in every way that you can and not seek divorce.
Paige Patterson is president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Fort Worth school whose Web site says it is one of the largest seminaries in the world. About 15 million people are part of Southern Baptist churches, the largest Protestant group in the United States. Patterson is slated to deliver the primary sermon a high-profile honor in June at the Southern Baptist Conventions annual meeting in Dallas.
Patterson, who declined to comment Sunday, is heard on an audiotape being interviewed about what he recommends for women who are undergoing genuine physical abuse from their husbands, and the husband says they should submit.
It depends on the level of abuse, to some degree, Patterson says. I have never in my ministry counseled anyone to seek a divorce and thats always wrong counsel. Only on an occasion or two in his career, he says, when the level of abuse was serious enough, dangerous enough, immoral enough, has he recommended a temporary separation and the seeking of help.
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not fooled
(5,801 posts)running things now, thanks to the installation of dump.
Back to the Dark Ages!
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Since long before Trump.
There is a huge fight at the Convention every year because half of the group want to move away from the hateful, bigoted group.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)kinda behind the scenes, but in lockstep with the kook brothers now. Pushing the country closer to a theocracy.
Congratulations on leaving them behind, as a church. The entire country needs to do the same as an influence on policy and governance.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)But you are right in what you say.
I think their light is beginning to dim now.
All the Prosperity Gospel Preachers tied up with Evangelicals, decent Churches are running away as fast as they can. They will not survive if they do not. The young want nothing to do with Church
Entertainment centers at the big Churches still lure many. But even they are having money problems. Many big Churches are closing the doors.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Gave the Southern Baptist Church the back of my hand after they compared Trump to Churchill.
Earlier they said we had to vote against Obama because of Abortion,gays and love of guns.
Sickening, Pretending they are holy!
keithbvadu2
(36,922 posts)Trump is so devout
safeinOhio
(32,726 posts)"the only problem with Southern Baptist is, they didn't hold them under water long enough".
riversedge
(70,306 posts)snowybirdie
(5,239 posts)The Catholic Church has been saying the same thing for hundreds of years. Divorce is unacceptable, according to them.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)He goes on to tell the story of a woman who came to him about abuse, and how he counseled her to pray at night beside her bed, quietly, for God to intervene.
The woman, he said, came to him later with two black eyes. She said: I hope youre happy.
And I said Yes
Im very happy
because it turned out her husband had heard her quiet prayers and come for the first time to church the next day, he said
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)As a Bishop in Boston,he counseled women and browbeat them for not supporting the Church
not fooled
(5,801 posts)is revealed--fake xtians actually want a patriarchy. That's the actual aim of their dream of a theocracy here.
White and male counts.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I grew up Southern Baptist. I finally realized that a group of people who consider a god that will allow billions to burn in hell as a loving god...well, they can accept anything as good.