UNITED STATES
Vox
By Tara Isabella Burton@NotoriousTIBtara.burton@vox.com
May 9, 2018
In 2014, Paige Patterson tells a joke.
The former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and current president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, is giving a speech at an evangelical conference in Las Vegas. With a broad Texas drawl and a folksy glint in his eye, he tells the story of an irate woman he encountered during a church service.
“She was really unhappy with me,” he says, with exaggerated self-deprecation. “And giving me what for.”
Meanwhile, her sons are standing nearby. While the woman is yelling at Patterson, “a very attractive coed” walks by.
“She couldn’t have been more than 16,” Patterson continues. “But let me say — she was nice.”
One of the sons commented to the other, “Man, is she built.”
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