Southern Baptist Convention objects to #VAWA, brings in wife-beating felon to support their cause.

Via rightwingwatch we learn that the Southern Baptist Convention is (unsurprisingly) voicing objections to renewal and expansion of the Violence Against Women Act. Part of the basis for their objection:

Under the reauthorization, VAWA, as the bill is known, would spend vast sums of taxpayer money—more than $400 million each year—on programs that lack sufficient oversight and fail to address the core issue of protecting vulnerable women from abuse. Many of the programs duplicate efforts already underway. Among other problems, it would expand special protections to include same-sex couples. Men who are victimized by their male sexual partners would receive the benefit of the law above heterosexuals. And with broadened definitions of who qualifies for services, those who are most in need of the bill’s protections would have diminished access to it.

You can read their full objection here.

Let's put aside the homophobic hysteria about destroying families by supporting same-sex couples. Let's also set aside the trope about "insufficient oversight," which is basically boilerplate language for "this spends money on something besides bombs and oil subsidies."

One of the people the SBC brought on board to support this letter is Timothy Johnson. Johnson's a convicted domestic abuser with a felony conviction and a fake Ph. D. What's his motive for supporting this law?

And how seriously does the SBC take domestic violence if they bring this asshole on board?

Southern Baptist Convention objects to #VAWA, brings in wife-beating felon to support their cause.

Via rightwingwatch we learn that the Southern Baptist Convention is (unsurprisingly) voicing objections to renewal and expansion of the Violence Against Women Act. Part of the basis for their objection:

Under the reauthorization, VAWA, as the bill is known, would spend vast sums of taxpayer money—more than $400 million each year—on programs that lack sufficient oversight and fail to address the core issue of protecting vulnerable women from abuse. Many of the programs duplicate efforts already underway. Among other problems, it would expand special protections to include same-sex couples. Men who are victimized by their male sexual partners would receive the benefit of the law above heterosexuals. And with broadened definitions of who qualifies for services, those who are most in need of the bill’s protections would have diminished access to it.

You can read their full objection here.

Let's put aside the homophobic hysteria about destroying families by supporting same-sex couples. Let's also set aside the trope about "insufficient oversight," which is basically boilerplate language for "this spends money on something besides bombs and oil subsidies."

One of the people the SBC brought on board to support this letter is Timothy Johnson. Johnson's a convicted domestic abuser with a felony conviction and a fake Ph. D. What's his motive for supporting this law?

And how seriously does the SBC take domestic violence if they bring this asshole on board?