DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 13, 2022

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.Southern Baptist Convention Covered Up Sex Abuse, Being Investigated By DOJ:

The investigation is related to a recent bombshell third-party report commissioned by the SBC, a spokesman said late Friday. The report concluded that sex abuse survivors were often ignored, minimized and “even vilified” by top clergy in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

The third-party report, which involved an examination of the period from 2000 to 2021, focused on actions by the executive committee, which handles financial and administrative duties. Southern Baptist churches operate independently from one another, but the Nashville-based Executive Committee distributes more than $190 million through its cooperative program in its annual budget that funds its missions, seminaries and ministries.

The 300-page report, the first of its kind in a massive Protestant denomination like the SBC, showed how denominational leaders for decades actively resisted calls for abuse prevention and reform. Evidence in the report suggests leaders also told Southern Baptists they could not maintain a database of offenders to prevent more abuse while secretly keeping such a list for years.

Slap ‘God’ on anything, and you can get away with all kinds of shit.  Until you can’t.  Which reminds me–More Mormon cover-ups uncovered.  Is there any religion that isn’t fucked up?

Love This Headline:  “He Thought He Could Steal Nuclear Secrets…And Keep Them…At His House’.

Only The D’s Would Pass This On A Friday Afternoon During The Summer.  Yes, there’s some bad stuff in it.  But there’s lots of great stuff in there as well.  Run on it!  And abortion.

Heat Islands Disproportionately Impact Delaware’s Poorest Neighborhoods.  If Mayor Mike truly gave a shit about Wilmington’s poorer residents, he could do something about this instead of trying to run them out of town:

Wilmington’s tree coverage is as high as 70% in wealthier areas and as low as 10% in others, as previously reported by Delaware Online/The News Journal. The average is about 22%.

Wilmington now sees an average of seven more days a year over 90 degrees than it did 50 years ago. But aside from citywide temperatures getting hotter, one could just look at Holden’s ZIP code.

Neighborhoods like hers — those with little shade, large expanses of concrete and buildings, few trees and fewer parks — will now find heat enhanced in the day’s hottest hours. Perhaps more insidious, the same surfaces will release heat slowly over the course of the night, making the cooler evening hours hotter than they should be. This is urban heat island effect.

If Mayor Mike, Buccini/Pollin and their, wait for it, ilk, wanted to do something good for a change, they could embark on a major tree-planting campaign and help encourage the creation of more community gardens.  But they just want to drive ‘those people’ out of the city to make way for yet more gentrification.

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  1. bamboozer says:

    “Is there any religion that isn’t fucked up?”
    I’m going with NO, their all based on lies that range from pathetic to insane.
    Strongly suspect all religions cover up the sex abuse that they seem so prone to.
    As for planting trees I’m all for it, it borders on a common sense response.