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to the lawsuit, Patterson told Roe to recount "lurid and graphic details" of her rape before a group of men, told her that the rape was a "good thing", and "seemed to enjoy making Roe even more uncomfortable with his questions". Patterson also reportedly said he was "too busy" to deal with the allegations, "callously rejected" her requests for prayers and financial assistance, and told seminary faculty members about the alleged rape without her consent. Doe was expelled after Fort Worth police searched his room and found nine firearms, which violated the seminary's weapon's policy.
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Security in which Dr. Patterson discussed meeting with the student alone so that he could ‘break her down’ and that he preferred no officials be present"; the SWBTS Executive Committee stated that the "attitude expressed by Dr. Patterson in that email is antithetical to the core values of our faith and to SWBTS". The executive committee also found "undeniable" evidence that "contradicts a statement previously provided by Dr. Patterson in response to a direct question by a board member". Patterson has denied any mishandling of any investigation.
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Patterson; that resolution was "soundly defeated". Then in early July 2018, several donors to SWBTS signed a public letter threatening to withhold funding from the seminary unless the SWBTS board reconsidered
Patterson's firing. Their letter called the SWBTS Executive Committee's firing of Patterson a "travesty" and stated: "Dr. and Mrs. Patterson continue to have our absolute and unwavering support. They are both esteemed scholars and were stately ambassadors for the Seminary". Karen Swallow Prior, then a professor at
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can think of is, 'Honey, what can I do for you? What can I do to serve you? How can I make your life better?' And all the time she is submitting herself to her husband and saying, 'You just lead and, honey, I'll follow.'" "It depends on the level of abuse, to some degree. … I have never in my ministry counseled anyone to seek a divorce and that's always wrong counsel". Instead of divorce he recommended temporary separation in cases of extreme spousal abuse.
962:, a Baptist institution. On May 30, 2018, Cedarville's president, Thomas White, who had worked with Patterson at both SEBTS and SWBTS, issued a statement that emphasized Cedarville's policies for reporting abuse and his uncertainty as to whether Patterson would continue to serve on the board. By May 31, 1,300 people had signed a petition for Patterson's resignation from Cedarville's board of trustees, which Patterson submitted that day.
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October 17, 2018, to uphold the decision to fire
Patterson, though 4 of the 34 trustees present voted against and claimed that the process of his firing was flawed. At that same meeting, trustees voted by a similar margin to fire an SWBTS faculty member, apparently for voicing opposition to Patterson's firing.
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In May 2019, an SWBTS former student, named "Jane Roe" in legal papers, filed a lawsuit against Paige
Patterson for threatening, intimidating, and humiliating her when she told him that she had been repeatedly raped at gunpoint in 2014 and 2015 by another seminary student, named "John Doe". According
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Since his firing, Patterson has received public criticism for two sermons at a revival in
September 2018. In the first sermon, he repeatedly highlighted the weight of a "fat" female parishioner, which led to charges that he was "body-shaming women". His second sermon referenced the biblical story of
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About two dozen SBC donors attempted to return
Patterson to his positions of president emeritus and theologian-in-residence at SWBTS and to punish those who fired him. At the SBC's annual meeting in June 2018, they brought a resolution to the floor to fire all the trustees of SWBTS who voted to fire
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The SWBTS Executive
Committee removed "all the benefits, rights and privileges provided by the May 22–23 board meeting, including the title of President Emeritus, the invitation to reside at the Baptist Heritage Center as theologian-in-residence and ongoing compensation". The SWBTS trustees voted on
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The suit claims Roe is the same student about whom
Patterson had promised to "break her down". Patterson allegedly later met with Roe and said that Doe has supplied him with nude photos that proved they had a consensual sexual relationship; Roe said the photos were taken while Doe was raping her at
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Patterson's standing in the SBC was also affected by his firing. After receiving pressure from various
Southern Baptist leaders, including SBC president Steve Gaines, Patterson announced in a letter to Gaines on June 8, 2018, that he was declining to give the keynote sermon at the annual meeting of
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Patterson was terminated "effective immediately" in response to mishandling the investigation of the alleged rape of a student at
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2003, based on their internal review reported to SWBTS. During that investigation, Patterson had sent an email "to the Chief
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In an interview taped in 2000, Patterson recounted how he counseled a woman, who told him about being abused by her husband, that she should pray for God's intervention. When the woman "came to him later with two black eyes" and said "I hope you're happy", Patterson said he was "very happy" because
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as ministers. According to Patterson, the "highest and noblest calling of God" for women is that of "mother and grandmother". Additionally, Patterson's interpretation of the Bible includes "an assignment from God, in this case that a woman not be involved in a teaching or ruling capacity over men".
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Although Patterson did not attend the SBC annual meeting in June 2018, the scandal prompted a greater focus on gender for attendees, who passed two resolutions on gender. One of those resolutions affirmed roles for women in the church, while the other condemned all forms of abuse against women and
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Patterson explains a wife's submission to her husband as voluntary rather than coerced: "It means voluntarily to line up in the right order that God has given, and the husband is loving his wife sacrificially as much as Jesus Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it, so that all the husband
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He has also compared female submissiveness to submissiveness to a police officer. Although the officer and Patterson would be equal before God, "He is above me," Patterson wrote. Just as "God gave him an assignment that affects me and made him a minister of God to correct my evil ways," so he
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the SBC the following week. Patterson said his decision came from his desires "to protect my family as much as I can", "to contribute to harmony within the Southern Baptist Convention", and "to respond to the request that has come especially from you and other Southern Baptist leadership".
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gunpoint. When Roe's mother asked Patterson how Doe had been allowed to attend SWBTS with his violent criminal past, Patterson reportedly "lunged across the table, firmly pointed his finger in her face and threatened to 'unleash' lawyers on her if she dared question his leadership".
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roots, Patterson joined with Pressler, who was now a Houston-based Judge, to carry out a plan that included exposing the theology taught and practiced by the leadership in SBC institutions, which Patterson and Pressler described as
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of the First Baptist Church of Dallas while in this position. After 17 years as head of what is now Criswell College, he became president of the
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Patterson's firing affected his standing in Baptist circles more broadly. Since 2003, Patterson had served on the board of trustees of
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1656:"Prominent Southern Baptist leader removed as seminary president following controversial remarks about abused women"
1237:"Paige Patterson, Head Of Southern Baptist Seminary, Ousted Over Remarks on Rape, Abuse of Women : The Two-Way"
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dismissed Roe's lawsuit against Patterson and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
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In mid-October 2018, Patterson accepted the opportunity to co-teach an ethics course at
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The Fundamentalist Takeover in the Southern Baptist Convention,
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1208:"Paige Patterson inaugurated as Southwestern's 8th president"
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1680:SWBTS Board of Trustees (May 23, 2018).
1614:"Pressler sexual abuse claims dismissed"
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911:Removal as president of SWBTS and firing
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2250:Interview with Dorothy Patterson
1987:Merritt, Jonathan (2018-08-14).
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1957:Zauzmer, Julie (2018-07-04).
1923:Gregory, Jenny (2019-03-14).
1896:Zauzmer, Julie (2018-06-12).
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895:Alleged cover up of sex abuse
611:List of SBC-affiliated people
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1760:Roach, David (8 June 2018).
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1812:Roach, David (2018-10-22).
1785:Roach, David (2018-10-17).
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845:(SWBTS) from 2003 to 2018.
820:Council for National Policy
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636:International Mission Board
414:Southern Baptist Convention
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572:Individual soul liberty
558:Priesthood of believers
512:Conservative resurgence
241:Dorothy Jean née Kelley
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