Baptist General Convention of Texas

Here's what they say.

"Sexual relations of any kind outside of marriage between a man and a woman are not in keeping with the teaching of scripture, as understood by the preponderance of Christian congregations and denominations throughout history, including the 5,000-plus churches affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas." By the way, that's the one that, uh, Baylor is, uh, is part of.

And then it goes on to say this, "Therefore, as a matter of moral commitment and Christian witness, all members of the university community are expected to abide by Baylor's sexual conduct policy and to respect this understanding of sexual relationships." Okay, fair enough.

That makes sense.

I mean, Leighton himself, he's in Texas and he's part of this, I think, the...

Texas, he used to work for Texas Baptist.

He was like the head of evangelism or something.

So he's part of the Southern Baptist Church.

But they're looking at each of these allegations in a vacuum, isolated incidents, and they're not putting them together.

Now, there was some question because First Baptist officials did not notify the Baptist General Convention of Texas about these allegations.

But according to Texas Monthly, and I can't say enough good things about them, by the way, excellent reporting, Baptist churches have no defined hierarchies and they operate independently of one another.

So there are actually no rules requiring a church to inform convention leaders that a pastor has been accused of misconduct.