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The election of the new Southern Baptist Convention president underlined the rifts in the conservative evangelical network of churches.

Southern Baptists vote to probe leaders' sex abuse response TRAVIS LOLLER and PETER SMITH, Associated Press June 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 18 1of18Incoming Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton, center left, talks with outgoing President J. D. Greear, center right, at the conclusion of the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting, Wednesday, June 16, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn.Mark Humphrey/APShow MoreShow Less 2of18Incoming Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton, standing at left, and outgoing President J. D. Greear, kneeling at right, talk with denominati...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to create a task force to oversee an independent investigation into the denomination’s handling of sexual abuse. The resolution calls for the newly elected SBC president, Alabama pastor Ed Litton, to appoint the task force, which will head up a review of allegations that the denomination’s Executive Committee mishandled abuse cases, intimidated victims and advocates and resisted reforms. It would also investigate the work of a credentials committee that was created in...

increase font size Southern Baptists vote to debate sex abuse investigation The move comes on the concluding day of the two-day gathering of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, attended by more than 15,000 voting delegates. By TRAVIS LOLLER and PETER SMITHAssociated Press Share NASHVILLE, Tenn.  – Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to have a floor debate on a proposed investigation into the denomination’s handling of sexual abuse. The SBC’s business committee had planned to refer the proposal to its Executive Com...

Southern Baptists vote to investigate leaders' sex abuse response Travis Loller and Peter Smith Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting voted overwhelmingly this week to create a task force to oversee an independent investigation into the denomination's handling of sexual abuse.  Separately, the convention approved its most absolutist statement yet in opposition to abortion, a resolution calling for its immediate banning without exception and calling it a "crime against humanity that must be punished equally under the law."  The me...