The SBC’s clergy sex abuse database is dead, so why the hotline?

The SBC’s clergy sex abuse database is dead, so why the hotline?

After years of trailing out hollow words, impotent task forces and phony dog-and-pony shows of purported reform, the Southern Baptist Convention’s top CEO straight-up admitted that a database of clergy sex abusers is “not a focus for us.” This bit of truthfulness came during a February press conference when a reporter asked SBC Executive Committee president Jeff Iorg if the clergy sex abuser database was “really a dead option.” Iorg’s answer cam…