TN- Abuse victims blast Baptist official for "abuse" remarks

For immediate release: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, [email protected])

A top Southern Baptist official, Richard Land, says that gay couples who use surrogates to have children are essentially committing child abuse. 

That's horribly wrong and dreadfully insensitive to hundreds of thousands of people who have, in fact, suffered from devastating child abuse (and, of course, to gay people as well). 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/24/gay-parents-surrogates-child-abuse_n_4848342.html

People upset with Obama shouldn't call him “subhuman.” People who are discriminated against shouldn't call their opponents “Nazis.” And people who oppose gay couples shouldn't compare them to child abusers.

Adults who were kicked and raped and tortured and sodomized as kids don't deserve to have their pain trivialized. Land should apologize and other Baptist officials should denounce him for his hurtful remarks.

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We’ve been around for 25 years and have more than 15,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org) 

Contact - David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, [email protected]), Barbara Dorris (314-862-7688 home, 314-503-0003 cell, [email protected])


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