Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines has asked for “forgiveness” on behalf of the entire convention and explained why he can’t remove controversial Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson as a speaker at this year’s SBC annual meeting in Dallas.
Gaines, an alumnus of SWBTS and the pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, issued a public statement in response to past controversial statements made by 75-year-old Patterson about women, abuse and divorce. Thousands of evangelical women are calling on him to step down.
“I praise God for the leadership [Patterson] gave to the SBC during the Conservative Resurgence. I am also grateful for his leadership at my alma mater, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary,” Gaines said in a statement Friday. “I have talked with him in person and by phone regarding his comments and told him that I disagree with the counsel he gave to a woman who was married to an abusive husband.”
Late last month, a clip from an interview from 2000 that Patterson did with the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood was posted to a Baptist
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