Statement by Pam Palmer, Mother of Plaintiff Renee Palmer Gamby

By Pam Palmer
Scribd.com
June 8, 2013

http://www.scribd.com/doc/146717666/Statement-by-Pam-Palmer-mother-of-Sovereign-Grace-abuse-lawsuit-plaintiff

Julie Anne Smith (Spiritual Sounding Board http://spiritualsoundingboard.com/ ),

Thank you for posting about all of this. The tactics and pressure that Houston’s First Baptist Churchexerted on Amy Smith are deplorable. It is never a “conflict of interest” for a concerned Christian to

encourage awareness of child sexual abuse and the cover-up of it, that has gone on in some of ourchurches.I am planning on standing with Amy Smith and SNAP and linking arms with them at this Awareness Eventoutside of the SBC meeting. As the mother of one of the SGM survivors/plaintiffs, I want to publiclysupport Amy and SNAP as they seek to raise awareness about the problems of sex abuse cover-up, whichhas occurred allegedly within the SBC at Prestonwood Baptist.I am also choosing to stand outside the SBC during its meeting, because of the T4G statement, whichsome of the top SBC leaders made, who as I understand it, will be in attendance and/or speaking at theSBC meeting

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Al Mohler and Mark Dever, specifically. In this T4G statement, they openly honored C.J.Mahaney, and in relation to our lawsuit on the alleged sex abuse cover-

up in SGM, declared that “no suchaccusation of direct wrongdoing was ever made against C.J. Mahaney”. They have since altered this

statement surreptitiously and removed this phrase.C.J. Mahaney is the former President of Sovereign Grace Ministries and former Senior Pastor of CovenantLife Church, and was leading at the helm, during the bulk of the cases currently listed on our lawsuit. Healso was directly listed in several of the Factual Allegations on our Second Amended Complaint, as beingallegedly directly involved with the knowledge and cover-up of several different sex abuse cases.Therefore, as a symbolic gesture, I am going to be standing outside of the Convention center with SNAP,this Tuesday, in protest of the

se SBC pastors’ support of C.J. Mahaney and their lack of support for the

survivors of sex abuse from SGM.

I also want to applaud the efforts of Peter Lumpkins, who is planning on bringing his “Resolution onSexual Abuse of Children” at the SBC meeting. T

his issue of child sex abuse in our churches, which hastraumatically affected my own family, is obviously close to my heart

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and I welcome the support fromPeter, as he takes this eloquent stand to bring about change in the way our Christian institutions handleministries or pastors mired in sex abuse scandal. When there is a sex abuse scandal in a church orministry

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protecting the flock and protecting the little lambs should always be our priority.