The Southern Baptist Convention is having a reckoning with the #MeToo movement this week. More than 2,000 Southern Baptist women signed an open letter Sunday condemning comments made by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson, in which he described a young man’s lewd comments toward a teenage girl as “biblical,” and said the proper response to abuse within marriage “depends on the level of abuse to some degree.”
The letter comes just after Southern Baptist speaker and author Beth Moore wrote a viral blog post about misogyny she’s experienced during her years in the ministry. “I’ve been in team meetings where I was either ignored or made fun of, the latter of which I was expected to understand was all in good fun,” Moore writes, calling herself “the elephant in the room with a skirt on.