{"id":8009,"date":"2018-05-23T05:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T09:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2018-05-23T05:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T09:56:54","slug":"splitting-the-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8009","title":{"rendered":"Splitting the baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Southwestern Seminary board meeting that was widely expected to affirm Paige Patterson’s Awesome Godliness was thrown into chaos yesterday when the Washington Post<\/a><\/i> moved a story, shortly after the meeting began, alleging that Patterson counseled a female student at Southeastern Seminary to not report being raped by another seminary student.<\/p>\n

In the event, the meeting lasted more than 13-hours and Patterson was appointed President Emeritus<\/i><\/a>, effective immediately.<\/p>\n

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Prominent Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson was removed from his job as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary amid an evangelical #MeToo moment: a massive backlash from women upset over comments he made in the past that are being newly perceived as sexist and demeaning. In a brief statement early Wednesday, the seminary\u2019s board of trustees made him president emeritus but did not state a reason for his removal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since Patterson is such a celebrity within the SBC for his role in the so-called Conservative Resurgence, there was never much realistic expectation that his disdainful treatment of women would get him fired; many of the trustees doubtless believe and behave the same, and it is probably the unexpected appearance of the Washington Post<\/i> story that led to his downfall.<\/p>\n

Patterson departs office with the honorific and no formal record of his discreditable conduct. Since there was no way the board could have gotten away with firing Patterson without igniting a riot by the geriatrics who think he is a Great Man, easing him up is probably all they could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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