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(UPDATED) Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, and Albert Mohler also defend friend C. J. Mahaney, while Scot McKnight joins Boz Tchividjian in criticism.
Jeremy Weber
Third Update (May 24): Scot McKnight disagrees with the many prominent Reformed supporters of C. J. Mahaney. “There is blatant failure here to recognize the complicity of a leader in what transpired under his watch,” he writes.
McKnight supports the view of GRACE’s Boz Tchividjian who, noting that the now-dismissed lawsuit’s allegations are “one of the most disturbing accounts of child sexual abuse and institutional ‘cover up’ I have read in my almost 20 years of addressing this issue,” writes:
These leaders have once again, and perhaps unwittingly, demonstrated the art of marginalizing individual souls for the sake of reputation and friendships.
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Does this mean that a jury is required in order to determine the existence of evil? … Such an approach to sin is incredibly damaging to so many precious individuals who were sexually victimized for years and manipulated by perpetrators and church leaders into remaining silent. It tells them that their voice and experience doesn’t matter nearly as much as the voice of a judge or jury.
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Many of these men have not hesitated to write (or tweet) on the Penn State horrors, homosexuals in the Boy Scouts, and universal healthcare, but have been conspicuously quiet on this issue. And when they finally speak, what is omitted speaks more than what is said.
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