Johnny Hunt, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, has filed a lawsuit against the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, alleging defamation and invasion of privacy.
The complaint states that “at most, the encounter lasted only a few minutes, and it involved only kissing and some awkward fondling.” Hunt and the woman later sought counseling, according to the lawsuit.
“This was a private failing by Pastor Johnny and the woman involved, and the story should have ended there. But it didn’t,” according to the lawsuit, which alleges Hunt was made a scapegoat for the denomination. The lawsuit claims naming Hunt in the report was a “strategic decision to deflect attention from the SBC’s historical failure to take aggressive steps to respond to reports of child sex abuse and other sex crimes in its past.”
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