HUNTSVILLE (AL)
AL.com
November 18, 2017
By Greg Garrison
More than 85 pastors at Southern Baptist-affiliated churches in Alabama have signed a letter this week saying they denounce sexual abuse against women, although the letter does not mention U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore.
As of today there were at least 86 signees including the current president of the Alabama Baptist Convention and a past president of the state convention, though both and some other ministers expressed concerns earlier this week about whether the allegations against Moore are true.
Southern Baptists are the largest denomination in Alabama, with more than a million members affiliated through the Alabama Baptist State Convention.
Moore, a Southern Baptist who is a member of Gallant First Baptist Church, is a U.S. Senate candidate who is the subject of intense national conversation after allegations from several women that he targeted them for romantic and sexual advances when they were teenagers and he was a county prosecutor in his thirties.
“If he did it, we need to know that,” said State Baptist President John Thweatt, pastor of First Baptist Church of Pell City. “We need to condemn it. If he didn’t, then we need to know that too. There are probably some people who will believe him no matter what.”
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