Prominent progressive egalitarian Beth Allison Barr has found herself hip deep in hypocrisy after claiming that a list of women ‘pastors’ compiled by a Southern Baptist pastor is abusive ‘doxxing’ – virtue-twerking her outrage and disbelief at its very existence, despite praising it months before.
Three months ago, Pastor Mike Law of Arlington Baptist Church published a list of 170 SBC churches that have women serving as “pastors” in an effort to support a proposed SBC constitutional amendment to bar any Southern Baptist Convention Church from giving women the title of “pastor.”
At the time, Barr did not express any doubts or misgivings about the list, freely sharing it and saying that it gives her “hope” and that she’s “encouraged” by the women on it.
The list was pretty simple – use publicly available information posted to the church’s website showing the name and picture of the person in question. I.e., a screenshot from the ‘about us’ staff page.
Though Barr expressed no concerns about this list, once Mike Law’s amendment passed and the roles of women pastors were clarified to be not a thing, she pounced on a narrative that was quickly picked up by a cadre of keening harpies, including Beth Moore, Karen Swallow Prior, and other assorted flustered women and effete men. They insisted that these women pastors impastors had been deliberately doxxed with the intent to harass, abuse, and terrorize them.
Barr went as far as to suggest that because the list even exists, more women would remain silent in their physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and therefore more likely to be subjected to it for greater lengths of time.
When one brave soul pointed out the obvious, that no one’s private information was revealed and that there is no way this constitutes doxxing, Barr wasn’t having any of it.
Of course, by her warped logic, simply posting a screenshot of her on her university’s website would count as doxxing. Actually, back that up. Her University doxxed her first! Are they TRYING to get her killed?
As many have pointed out, it’s puzzling that these women are surprised that if they put their name and picture on a publicly accessible church website, people can see it online.
Finally, Barr tells us what she really wants. She doesn’t want anyone to be able to prove that there’s a gaggle of lady preachers in the SBC, or to show documentation or concrete evidence when confronted. Rather, she wants a completely unverifiable number devoid of proof or buttressing information.
No one is harassing and targeting these women. This is not a hit list. Beth Moore and her merry band of theological marauders represent the worst kind of critic, and missives like these are emblematic of why she must stay home. Simply put, they have given themselves to neurotic hysterics when they suggest that the list intends to make the women accessible so that someone can attack and hurt them.
For Barr, the list was great until it was useful. ‘encouraging’ until it became rhetorically expedient that it wasn’t, and gave her ‘hope’ until she could frame it as a tool of hurt.
