The Christian Post reports:
Former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt, who previously admitted to engaging in “kissing and some awkward fondling” with the wife of a younger minister who accused him of sexual assault while on a beach vacation with his family in Panama City, Florida, in 2010, says he was stalked and seduced by the woman.
Hunt made the claim in a 368-page deposition as part of a federal defamation lawsuit filed by his lawyers in Tennessee in March 2023 against the SBC, the SBC Executive Committee and Guidepost Solutions, which had previously investigated the allegations against Hunt. The SBC has asked the court to make a summary judgment on Hunt’s lawsuit to avoid a trial.
The wife of the younger pastor, who said she considered Hunt a mentor, told an investigator for Guidepost that while she was on a beach vacation with his family in Florida, Hunt sexually assaulted her and told her he wanted to have sex with her three times a day.
Read the full article. Oh, yes. There’s much more.
In a newly released deposition, former Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt said sexually assaulting a woman by kissing her body and pulling off her underwear—all without consent—doesn’t count as “adultery.”
Here are the disturbing excerpts.https://t.co/tsss9q3WZJ
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) July 17, 2024
“Numb. Trapped. Paralyzed.”
I spoke with the woman/her husband who accused SBC President Johnny Hunt of sexual assault.
They say Hunt weaponized counseling against them to keep them silent for years. #SBCtoo #SBC22 https://t.co/rURGAMfbQz
— Robert Downen (@RobertDownen_) June 13, 2022
Now read this transcript of Johnny Hunt, former president of the SBC, denying he abused a woman.
He frames her as the seductress; denies it was abuse because there was no intercourse; questions her veracity.https://t.co/rxyBZVvABg
— Sheila Gregoire–She Deserves Better is here! (@sheilagregoire) July 16, 2024
And, for good measure, swears he never kissed her lips, so Guideposts lied about his kissing her, although he did apparently kiss her breasts.
The way they justify things, and claim technicalities (she wasn’t actually a virgin; this wasn’t actually adultery) is just amazing.
— Sheila Gregoire–She Deserves Better is here! (@sheilagregoire) July 16, 2024