Disfellowship churches which through silence foster and compound sex abuse by clergy

Christa Brown points to the applicable passage in the Baptist Faith and Message:

We should work to provide for the orphaned, the needy, the abused, the aged, the helpless, and the sick.

There can be denominational consequences, after all? That does not mean it is acceptable to fail to support the victims of abuse in your own church, or silently send abusive pastors along to other churches, does it? Or is the passage merely advisory so that continued negligence is acceptable?

Knights Out in Navy Times

Our Southern Baptist friends didn't tell us about this.

Knights Out indeed. Navy Times says there are similar support and education groups formed by graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Air Force Academy, known respectively as USNA Out and Blue Alliance. Not that this casts any light on disfellowshipping.

Baptists disfellowship woman-pastored churches?

The Georgia Baptist Convention's disfellowshipping of First Baptist Church, Decatur, merely formalizes something that happened when Julie Pennington-Russell was called to be senior pastor there.

So argues Matt Svodoba:

It is FBC of Decatur that has abandoned the convention. Abandoned might be a strong word, but this is what I mean. The [Southern Baptist Convention] SBC has set up boundaries, theological boundaries. If a church denied the trinity the SBC would disfellowship with them because they would of crossed a theological boundary the convention set up. It is the same with female pastors. The Southern Baptist Convention said up the boundary of male pastors only, as Scripture prescribes. It was First Baptist Church of Decatur that disfellowshipped with the Georgia Baptist Convention by stepping over a theological boundary that was set up prior to FBC’s decision to call a woman to pastor there church.

Seems clear enough to us.

But why as a practical matter draw that line at fellowship with churches which have called female pastors? You may, after all, agree about and benefit from cooperating on almost everything else in sight.

Slippery slope:

If you look at every other convention that has gone liberal it started with female pastors, then gay male and female pastors, why would we open ourselves up to this liberalism?