{"id":124253,"date":"2023-10-31T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124253"},"modified":"2023-11-01T05:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:12:58","slug":"ct-chris-davis-another-southern-baptist-betrayal-revelations-of-a-scandalous-amicus-brief-raise-the-question-whos-driving-the-sbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124253","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Chris Davis–Another Southern Baptist Betrayal Revelations of a scandalous amicus brief raise the question: Who\u2019s driving the SBC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That story\u2014at least, a sinister reading of it\u2014came to mind as I tried to process\u00a0last week\u2019s revelation<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0an amicus brief<\/a>\u00a0filed in April by legal counsel for the Southern Baptist Convention, the SBC\u2019s Executive Committee, Lifeway Christian Resources, and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n

The case is Samantha Killary\u2019s lawsuit against the city government of Louisville, Kentucky, where law enforcement employees allegedly enabled her years-long sexual abuse by her father, also a police officer.<\/p>\n

No SBC entity is named in the lawsuit. But because it is similar to other lawsuits being brought against the SBC and the Executive Committee in Kentucky, legal counsel apparently advised these entities to file the amicus brief, encouraging the state Supreme Court to exclude \u201cnon-offender third parties\u201d from Kentucky\u2019s recent change in the statute of limitations for abuse claims.<\/p>\n

This may protect the SBC from legal liability, but it harms Killary and excuses the institution that hurt her. It is an enormous betrayal to abuse survivors and our allies for accountability within the SBC, and the consequences will\u2014and should\u2014be grave.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After revelations of a scandalous amicus brief, @RevChrisDavis<\/a> wonders who in the SBC is to blame.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere we are\u2014survivors and pastors and therapists and attorneys who thought things were changing for the better\u2014wondering what has just happened.\u201dhttps:\/\/t.co\/MO47ss2Oxo<\/a><\/p>\n

— Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) November 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n