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Part One: How The Southern Baptist Convention Was Taken Over By Republicans and Child Molesters

Behind the Bastards

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What if I Want Something Worse for This Person?

Southern baptist leaders tended to take it to mean if a pastor or someone else who is affiliated with us molests somebody, give em another chance. In two thousand three, popular illinois pastor leslie mason was caught molesting four young girls. State leaders told him he would be fired and lose severance pay if he did not resign. He gets n victed and is sentenced to seven years in prison in a plea deal which drops all but two of his charges. Angry readers deluge the newspaper, and condemnation against the newspapers expose pours in.

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