The executive committee, which acts on behalf of the convention when it is not in session, shot down an effort to expand the scope of an external review of sex abuse-related allegations leveled against members of the panel.
Executive committee member Joe Knott spoke against adding it to the Monday agenda for consideration, saying he did not think it would help anything. No one in the Southern Baptist Convention is in any way in favor of any sort of child abuse or anything like that. It s hideous to even contemplate that, Knott said. To hire a third party, professional investigatory organization who does this for profit, and give them essentially unlimited power to interview anyone in the Southern Baptist Convention is just a horrific thing.
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