Ronnie Floyd resigns as Southern Baptist Convention committee chief
Ronnie Floyd, the highest-ranking official of the Southern Baptist Conference govt committee, introduced his resignation from his submit Thursday night, following weeks of contentious committee conferences a couple of sexual abuse inquiry.
“Resulting from my private integrity and the management accountability entrusted to me, I cannot and can’t any longer fulfill the duties positioned upon me because the chief of the manager, fiscal, and fiduciary entity of the SBC,” Floyd wrote in a letter despatched to the manager committee members Thursday night time.
The manager committee, which handles conference enterprise when the complete SBC isn’t in session throughout its two-day annual assembly, met in current weeks to vote on waiving attorney-client privilege for an investigation into the committee’s dealing with of sexual abuse claims.
Floyd sided with authorized counsel who suggested the manager committee in opposition to waiving privilege, although the committee in the end voted to take action at an Oct. 5 assembly. Floyd mentioned his resignation is a direct results of that.
The choice to waive privilege, “now place our missionary enterprise as Southern Baptists into unsure, unknown, unprecedented and uncharted waters,” Floyd mentioned in his resignation letter. “Within the midst of deep disappointment and discouragement, we’ve got to make this determination by our personal alternative and accomplish that willingly, as a result of there is no such thing as a different determination for me to make.”
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