Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.

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the podcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode 275. Hard to believe we've

done 275 of these, but here we are. So today I want to talk a little bit about the court case involving Paige Patterson,

a former seminary president and conservative leader in the Southern Baptist Convention.

About four or five years ago there was a full court press in the Southern Baptist Convention

that was designed to the sensible and

the sensible reason was to deal with sexual abuse and sexual abuse cases that have been

mishandled and so forth in the Southern Baptist Convention, which is obviously a noble goal.

You want to, if there are wrongs, you want to put them right and if there are abuses,

you want to fix them and correct them and so forth. But what this actually was was a political move designed to move

the Southern Baptist Convention left on things like women's ordination and feminism and other related issues.

And one of the ways to put conservatives back on their heels is to allege wrongdoing, malfeasance, you know, of various kinds, right?

And an accusation was made against Paige Patterson.

There had been a sexual encounter of illicit kind. It was alleged to be rape, etc.

And the charge was that Paige Patterson had mishandled the whole thing.

And as a result of the public uproar, Patterson was fired as the seminary professor, He was traveling, he was locked out of his office, etc.

Well, just within the last week or so, the court case that was brought in light of all this was settled and the court case determined

that all the public allegations which were the reason for Patterson's firing, were bogus.

So he didn't do anything, he didn't do what was alleged and so on.

He followed the book, did what he ought to have done, and so on, and was nevertheless

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