Why do Southern Baptists intimidate the press?

Houston Chronicle story on sex abuse in SBC churches included story of retaliation against a reporter for reporting abuse allegations

After the Conservative Resurgence triumphed, an old moderate told me that I was wrong about the whole thing. He was bitter when he said, “This is about power and money. Not the Bible.” However, the way many Southern Baptist leaders act today, power and money are what concern them. The Houston Chronicle investigation into sexual abuse within Southern Baptist churches illustrates the point. Time and time again, churches and leaders failed to act because they worried about how it would look—how it would look to members, the community and folks watching their…