Southern Baptists Trample Rights of Accused

Southern Baptists received a warning in 2007 from Fr. Thomas Doyle, a priest who had spent years drawing attention to claims of clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church. In a letter to the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Fr. Doyle warned that the denomination was headed for a similar reckoning -- unless it acted quickly. Inaction would lead to the same "incredible harm to your Church that the Catholic Church did not avoid."