A group of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s major donors have written to its board of trustees, threatening to discontinue all financial support if “serious wrongs” are not “righted,” with reference to the termination of former president Paige Patterson over his alleged mishandling of and comments on sexual assault victims.
Written by Gary Loveless with 16 co-signatories and addressed to the chair, Kevin Ueckert, and Executive Committee members, the letter seeks to express the donors’ “utter disdain” for the actions taken against Patterson on May 30.
Ueckert said in a statement at the time that Patterson had failed to report a rape allegation by a female student in 2003 to local law enforcement when he was president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina (1992–2003), and when he was later asked about it, he lied.
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