A reminder that 80% of White Evangelicals supported (and most still support) a man who boasted of attacking women, paid to silence women, and called a woman a dog. Oh, and broke the law to influence the 2016 election. These are the people who try to preach to us about morality.— Paul Brandeis Raushenbush (@raushenbush) August 22, 2018
There are some interesting conversations going on in the ex-evangelical community right now, about the predictable Schadenfreude and predictable gay-bashing being exhibited by many evangelicals in light of the Pennsylvania grand jury report and the McCarrick story. Right-wing white evangelicals have long loved to pretend that sexual abuse of minors or sexual abuse of vulnerable church members by clergy are confined to the Catholic church — because all those gay clergy.
These problems don't exist in white evangelical churches because they don't love and harbor the gays. What makes it all the more astonishing to see white evangelicals trying to use these tactics right now is that we all know better: see, Andy Savage; see, Bill Hybels; see, Paige Patterson. As Blake Chastain states (see below), there's an opportunity now for a cross-denominational initiative against sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable parishioners within all churches, and the scapegoating narrative that tries to pin everything on the gays is thwarting that opportunity — and intends to thwart it.
Evangelical leaders and pastors need to check their moralizing (read: STFU) about the Catholic church's sex abuse scandals & realize they have the same problems in their own houses of worship. This is a chance for ecumenical alliance against sexual abuse. #Exvangelical— Blake Chastain (@brchastain) August 21, 2018
This goes double for any pastor who tries to tie their anti-Catholic rhetoric with their anti-LGBTQ theology. The problem is abuse, and evangelical institutions have created the same environments for abusers to thrive. #Exvangelical— Blake Chastain (@brchastain) August 21, 2018
I'm seeing both evangelicals and Catholics insist that the exposed Catholic abuse scandal was caused by homosexuality. This is opportunistic, abusive, disgusting and just wrong. Conservative churches are irredeemable and need to fade into irrelevance.#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews https://t.co/pTJxv36PW9— Christopher Stroop (@C_Stroop) August 21, 2018
The church should go down with it. The fact that you're more worried about damage control than the fact that the white American evangelicalism you're part of is morally bankrupt and are still both-sides-are-bad-ing it proves there's nothing redeemable. Burn it all down. https://t.co/kdqVa7RWmW— Kathryn Brightbill 🖋️ (@KEBrightbill) August 22, 2018
If people are being driven away from the church because American white evangelicals have linked themselves to the Republican Party, that's a pretty darn good sign that the artifice of American evangelicalism isn't the church and it needs to burn. All of it. Don't prop it up.— Kathryn Brightbill 🖋️ (@KEBrightbill) August 22, 2018
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