Fired Leader Won’t Speak At Southern Baptist Convention

DALLAS (AP) — A former seminary president dismissed over his response to two rape allegations made by students says he won’t give the featured sermon at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting next week in Dallas.
The convention’s official news service, Baptist Press, says Paige Patterson announced the decision Friday.
Patterson was dismissed last month from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, because of his response to the two rape allegatio