We had discussed here previously the fact that Pastor Matthew Queen of Friendly Avenue Baptist Church here in Greensboro was being criminally charged by the U.S. Department of Justice. It is in connection with his previous role at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary responding to a sexual abuse complaint.
Pastor Queen has now pled guilty as part of a plea bargaining agreement as reported by the Christian Post. He is charged with what is referred to as a “process crime”.
How does this work? The FBI interrogates you, trips you up, and gets you to say something that is later found to be untrue. You then get charged criminally for lying to the FBI.
I had reported here previously about the #MeToo crusade and the handling of sexual abuse issues within the Southern Baptist Convention. Megan Basham had devoted a lengthy chapter in her book to this topic.
She revealed that Obama had made this an agenda item for his Department of Justice to pursue more than a decade ago. His method was to require colleges and universities to respond in a certain manner when sexual abuse allegations are made. He required them to set up a process in which the accused male is stripped of due process rights and essentially presumed to be guilty.
The agenda was to give budding radical feminists another weapon in their toolkit to leverage power over men. We have discussed previously that a good portion of the women making these allegations are lying or downplaying their own responsibility in these matters. In some cases, the women lie in order to exact revenge over having been jilted, or over some other agenda item.
Basham revealed that, in many cases, the accused men later sue the universities because of being unjustly accused and pursued; and the financial awards these men then tend to receive in court is far in excess of whatever penalties or liabilities the universities would otherwise face.
Biden’s Department of Justice far exceeded its rightful constitutional authority when it went after Pastor Queen. It had no rightful role in these matters.
Matthew Queen has been unjustly prosecuted.
An injustice for sure.
I feel badly for what they did to this guy, Fred. It’s terribly wrong. If the young woman at that seminary was truly convinced that she was sexually abused, she should have gone to the local police.
She did. The local police contacted the school. A staff member got the ball rolling on following through with the seminary’s outlined procedures for dealing with such matters. These measures are meant to protect both the victims and the seminary’s integrity. This particular staff member did what she was supposed to, but then Matt Queen and a Heath Woolman failed after months to do what they were supposed to do and even discussed “disappearing” the related documents they failed to properly handle. Queen wasn’t tricked in a gotcha moment. He simply was stupid and unwise, lacking in discernment and failing to do the right EASY thing from the get go to protect victim and seminary. It was DUMB. He screwed himself and is counting on everyone believing a sweet man like him would never do such a terrible thing. He has an ego issue.
This has nothing to do with feminists. This has to do with him in a leadership position failing to follow through with a process meant to protect the seminary’s integrity. He lied. He didn’t lead. And that means a victim of a sexual assault was thrown under a bus. Why? To protect the organization he failed to protect from the beginning. He needs to resign and take a position of service quietly as opposed to leadership.
All SBC and seminary leadership who recommended this man for this position of lead minister has done egregious damage to this church’s witness for Christ. These people know who they are. The deacons at FABC are cowardly or blind, failing to see clearly in blind loyalty to a man who not only failed to do the right thing in process to protect both the seminary and a victim but then lied and used God to cover his tail. I get this man’s effeminate voice makes you think he is a harmless angel, but face it, pride in men isn’t diminished by low testosterone. This man has done egregious damage to the Body of Christ and continues doing so for egotistical reasons (a book on the line, anyone?!).
Get a grip. If Basham is familiar with this case, she certainly has not been interested thus far in defending him. Funny how you men are okay with a woman thinking for you when she toes the line for you intellectually on your side.
I am a conservative woman sick of weasel men in the SBC church. Conservative baptists continue abandoning their principles for prideful reasons.
You obviously don’t understand the details of this case and have made some prejudiced, stereotyped statements concerning this man’s innocence.
How would you feel if your daughter was raped by a seminary student, reported the assault to the police who notified the seminary leadership, the accountability procedure process was initiated by a female staff member, and then her male colleagues FAILED to do their part, not only failed but stupidly thought it a good idea to cover up their own mistakes so that your daughter was denied justice?
Don’t lie to the Feds. I am a conservative woman, and I swear, conservative men are becoming more like dogs in your loss of principles.
Don’t lie to the Feds. The Feds didn’t trick this self-gorged effeminate of a prideful man into this mess. He played his own god with a little g. He is the protege of another disgraced SBC leader who was forced to resign for covering up sexual misconduct and assault going on. The SBC male leadership and female apologists like Basham are doing more damage to the SBC’s credibility than the Feds are doing anything to trick you numbskull midwits into tripping up. Y’all are not that smart as you think.
The SBC and its seminaries need to do the right thing concerning all sexual misconduct and cover up. All and any kind of abuse should be dealt with harshly. Women and children are going to continue being harmed if decent conservative men don’t grow a pair and confront other men in their midst for failing to hold higher standards, principles and spend more time protecting the innocent, women and children than crying like babies because their pride is hurty.
Rebecca, I appreciate your comments. I continue to maintain that the individual schools cannot properly investigate and adjudicate charges such as these. It should have been left in the hands of the local police if she had gone to them. And if this young man was guilty beyond reasonable doubt, he was subject to prosecution. And if convicted, the school would then have ample grounds to expel him. It is a major error to suggest that schools ought to be vetting these situations.
Your characterization of the SBC leadership is incorrect. In fact, they have bought wholesale into the entire agenda of sexual abuse, at enormous expense to the denomination.
And the “feds” you seem to revere have no proper role in these matters. The US Constitution never even remotely gave the federal government authority to investigate alleged local crime or Christian seminaries over matters related to sexual abuse or rape.