Abuse Victims Blast Baptist Official for "Abuse" Remarks

SNAP
February 25, 2014

http://www.snapnetwork.org/tn_abuse_victims_blast_baptist_official_for_abuse_remarks

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )

A top Southern Baptist official, Richard Land, says that gay couples who use surrogates to have children are essentially committing child abuse.

That's horribly wrong and dreadfully insensitive to hundreds of thousands of people who have, in fact, suffered from devastating child abuse (and, of course, to gay people as well).

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People upset with Obama shouldn't call him “subhuman.” People who are discriminated against shouldn't call their opponents “Nazis.” And people who oppose gay couples shouldn't compare them to child abusers.

Adults who were kicked and raped and tortured and sodomized as kids don't deserve to have their pain trivialized. Land should apologize and other Baptist officials should denounce him for his hurtful remarks.