Robert C. Koehler: Sexual assault and the American way
And another sex scandal pops into the news. This time it’s the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, cringing in shame upon the recent release of a “bombshell” report detailing two decades of sexual abuse by pastors and other church officials, along with ongoing official cover-up of the crimes and denigration of any victims who had the courage to speak up.
“Crisis is too small a word. It is an apocalypse,” one former church official said.
Yet another American apocalypse, you might say — linking the SBC with
