The Southern Baptist Moral Meltdown

They dedicated their lives to a Gospel that says that every human being is made in the image of God. They dedicated their lives to a creed that commands one to look out for the marginalized, the vulnerable. The last shall be first. The meek shall inherit the earth. And yet when allegations of sexual abuse came, the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention betrayed it all. Those men -- and they seem to have all been men -- must have listened to hundreds of hours of pious sermons, read hundreds of high-minded theological books, recited thousands of hours of prayer, and yet all those true teachings and good beliefs had no effect on their actual behavior.