Hypocrisy and Irony Alert from an Ex-Catholic: Starr and Southern Baptists

In dealing with the sexual assaults and cover ups, the Baylor Board of Regents adopted a page right out of the Roman Catholic playbook.

When Cardinal Dolan of Boston was discovered to have been actively covering sexual abuse by clergy under his command, the Roman Catholic Church decided rather than impose an appropriate sanction of at least termination of his status as a cardinal and reporting his cover ups to the police to instead transfer Cardinal Dolan to a new position at the Vatican in Rome.

When Baylor President Kenneth Starr (who is a Baptist) was discovered to have been covering up sexual assaults by Baylor students, the Baylor Board of Regents rather than imposing appropriate sanctions such as termination and reporting the cover up to the police, instead gave Starr a transfer.

Baylor is a Southern Baptist university. The irony and hypocrisy is deepened as the Southern Baptist have been harshly critical of the Roman Catholic Church with some calling the pope the "antiChrist".

When it comes to cover up of sexual assault by its leaders, Southern Baptists behave no better than the antiChrist.

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