Alabama Baptists Leaders Call for SBC to Sever Ties with Guidepost After Revelations
Alabama state conventions leaders have called for the Southern Baptist Convention to sever ties with Guidepost Solutions, the organization tasked with investigating sexual abuse within the SBC after it was revealed that the organization was rabidly pro-LGBTQ.
The leaders note that their call has nothing to do with quelling or stifling the investigations of sexual abuse, but rather one of principle.
As State Convention leaders, our usual practice is not to speak to issues related to the Southern Baptist Convention and how business is handled by the leadership. However, the recent tweet from Guidepost affirming the LGBTQ+ movement has caused us much concern. We respectfully request that our SBC leadership sever ties with that organization. This action should not be seen as lacking strong support for the sexual abuse survivor community. We must do better in dealing with the challenges related to sexual abuse.
BUDDY CHAMPION, president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, chair of the Alabama Baptist Executive Committee, and pastor of First Baptist Trussville
MORGAN BAILEY, first vice president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention and senior pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church, Ranburne
JARMAN LEATHERWOOD, second vice president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention and pastor of House of Hope and Restoration Church, Huntsville
GREG CORBIN, chair of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions and senior pastor of Lakeside Baptist Church, Birmingham
MEL JOHNSON, vice chair of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions and lead mission strategist of the Autauga Baptist Association, Prattville
CRAIG CARLISLE, chair of the Sexual Abuse Task Force of the Alabama Baptist State Convention and director of missions of the Etowah Baptist Association, Gadsden
MELISSA BOWEN, vice chair of the Sexual Abuse Task Force and retired attorney, Prattville
RICK LANCE, executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions
Previous to this, Randy Davids, the President and Executive Director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board called for the SBC to cut ties as well, writing:
I do not believe the Southern Baptist Convention should be connected in any fiduciary way to any organization that is consulting with us on such an important topic yet does not share our biblical perspective of human sexuality….
Guidepost Solutions’ recently tweeted value statement on human sexuality is in sharp contrast to the Bible’s family and marriage values and our confessional statements summarized by the Baptist Faith and Message. Amos 3:3 asks, ‘Can two walk together unless they agree?’ Given the disparity of conviction on the issue of human sexuality, I don’t believe in this situation we can, or should, walk together. It undermines my confidence in any proposed future relationship between any SBC entity and Guidepost Solutions.
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What a complete and total disgrace. An organization hired to investigate sexual sin, now celebrates and endorses abominable sexual sin. And now because of their celebration of abominable, perverted sexual sins, the report that the SBC paid for is now worth less than toilet paper. Guidepost has zero credibility. The report has zero credibility. Guidepost should have already been fired, and the SBC should demand they pay back all monies spent on the “investigation.”
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