From that Christianity Today article
"“How many kids and congregants could have been spared horrific harm if only the Executive Committee had taken action back in 2006 when I first wrote to them, urging specific concrete steps? And how many survivors could have been spared the re-traumatizing hell of trying to report clergy sex abuse into a system that consistently turns its back?”
in a 2021 letter. “The SBC Executive Committee’s longstanding resistance to abuse reforms has now yielded a whole new crop of clergy sex abuse victims and of survivors re-traumatized in their efforts to report.”"
Is there not a lesson here? Do we need a more widespread and secular version of this?
With all the reports of rapes, women being attacked and assaulted in what is supposed to be single sex spaces......with minors being placed on medical pathways and being given puberty blockers and surgeries that permanently destroy their bodies, and all the detransitioners speaking out about how EASY this was for them? How deeply they regret it? How their bodies have suffered permanent damage?
Are we going to wait like the SBC has and let longer lists of victims stack up because of partisan politics?
Come the fuck on people.....these are human beings. Do we just not care about that?
You know predators are attracted to the church because of trusting people and easy access. NOT because they are genuinely religious. They FAKE. Predators do what's nessesary for them to gain access to victims. There are plenty of public school teachers who rape and molest students who chose their job based on access. It has nothing to do with whatever beliefs they have to pretend to have....its about ACCESS.
This doesnt change just because it's a politcal activist cause that sounds good on the surface. You think rapists men dont LIE and fake so they can get put in cells with the women? You think activists dont go into careers they feel will benefit their activism?
Please notice.....these teachers promoting this are very politcal and they all claim to be "queer" or "nonbinary" . Or be some level of member of the LGBTQA+ . They are using the power of suggestion.
If you tell a child they can be born in the wrong body....that's not even true, no one gets born in the wrong body, how do not see that's a religious belief? That's not science. Science has not claimed to know "spirits" exist, let alone that we have consciousness beyond our body....and we can be fused somehow in the wrong one. Telling this to children who are in a delicate and vulnerable process of forming their own identities is HARMFUL.
If people had told me this when I was a girl? I probably would have believed I was a boy. And just like so many detransitioning young people i would have felt pressured to follow all the way through. You know when everyone is on board, you are getting special treatment, you've been "socially transitioned" so you feel you CANT back out? Do you not remember the socail pressured of being a kid/teen?
You dont have to change your political beliefs and join the dreaded "right" to be against this. There are plenty of left wing people who have been opposing this. It's really sad that people cant even unite to protect children. And protect the fought for rights of women.