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[Laila Mickelwait @LailaMickelwait]

Now she should be TIME person of the year.

“Shame must change sides” —Gisele Pelicot

[Laila Mickelwait @LailaMickelwait]

A 12-year-old girl was raped, her assault filmed and uploaded to P*rnhub, where it was monetized and made available to the site’s 170 million daily users. A download button ensured her trauma would haunt her forever online. She begged P*rnhub to remove it—five days later, she got an automated reply. Nothing more. The video stayed up, raking in cash for P*rnhub’s executives.

Investigations, whistleblowers, and lawsuits uncovered the truth: P*rnhub had 1,800 employees but just 10 moderators per shift in Cyprus, drowning under 169 years’ worth of homemade video uploads and millions of images yearly. One single lone staffer worked five days a week to review user-flagged videos, facing a backlog of 706,000. They didn’t verify the age or consent of those in the videos being uploaded, but they didn’t care, in fact the CEO was exposed in uncovered e-mails calling their policies “good and reasonable.”

In Canada, this survivor is leading a $600 million class action lawsuit against P*rnhub. In the U.S., a federal judge certified multiple class action lawsuits representing tens of thousands of child victims.

Together we have forced P*rnhub to take down 91% of the site, have pressured the credit card companies into cutting all ties, and so much more—but these survivors deserve justice to be served fully and finally.

#Traffickinghub

[Treebeard @Treebeard55]

Phil Ryken continues to cover up abuse even now at Wheaton. https://t.co/13XHd7vyhW

[Treebeard @Treebeard55]

@revcjackson Is it an abuse case?

[Audrey Luhmann @LuhmannAudrey]

This week @The_ACNA College Bishops is meeting in FL. Please release a statement that addresses:

- Status of diocesan compliance to have safeguarding policies, per new Title I Canons revision. Currently, 10 of 28 dioceses have nothing.

- Status of the Title IV revision. 1/4

[ACNAtoo @ACNAtoo]

How can entire communities that are in many ways safe havens for hurting people fall in lockstep behind these leaders, ostracizing victims who rallied the courage to come forward, seek help, and try to prevent their abuser from harming others?

https://t.co/YN9QYzxbX5

[Audrey Luhmann @LuhmannAudrey]

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned for failure to respond to reports of child abuse.

@The_ACNA, it's time to talk. 🧵 (18-post thread)

https://t.co/sxohQIqPI6

[Treebeard @Treebeard55]

@ChurchRez Bp. Ruch should follow suit. ACNA is supposed to know better. https://t.co/2zGbSmsl0b

[Treebeard @Treebeard55]

@ChurchRez you could learn a thing from Gateway church. It’s still not too late to do the right thing. Bp. Ruch needs to step down immediately. https://t.co/GlHedsoGf3

[bytheirfruit @_bytheirfruit]

“The narrative that UMD and its leaders proactively reported the initial abuse of Cherin’s daughter is, and always has been, a lie.
We need to own that.” -Helen Keuning, former member of the Bishop’s Council
Thread by @PostCnsumrChris on Thread Reader App https://t.co/FM0L1qlBgd

[Joanna 🍃 @ladyjessicahaze]

I’m so grateful for Helen’s compassion and integrity. She is the rare lay leader who’s willing to challenge the powerful and stand up for the vulnerable, no matter what it costs her.

[Chris Marchand @PostCnsumrChris]

"Helen's Story: Why I resigned," a new episode of the Wall of Silence podcast, the @ACNAtoo story. Helen served on the Bishop's Council of @MidwestAnglican as the sexual abuse of Mark Rivera was made known by Cherin and Joanna Rudenborg. https://t.co/wVo0bhBAad

[Chris Marchand @PostCnsumrChris]

Episode 8 of the Wall of Silence Podcast, the @ACNAtoo story, is coming this Thursday. In it Helen tells why she resigned from the Bishop's Council of @MidwestAnglican in the wake of the Mark Rivera sexual abuse case and how the diocese decided to handle it.

[Sheila Gregoire--She Deserves Better is here! @sheilagregoire]

We need to talk more about the underlying reason so many pastors are restored to the pulpit, and why other pastors support the restoration:

megachurch salaries are HUGE, and there is virtually no way for a pastor, with no other qualifications, to replicate it elsewhere.

[Chris Marchand @PostCnsumrChris]

The Wall of Silence podcast returns this Thursday with part 1 of Helen's story, "Why I Resigned," an insider's account of dealing with church abuse in the Diocese of the Upper @midwest and @The_ACNA. The @ACNAtoo story continues.

[Treebeard @Treebeard55]

@Endeavourov1 @jblairsanders The only toxic empathy I’ve seen from “Christian” women is when they protect abusers in the church.

[J.S. Park 박준 @jsparkblog]

Please be mindful of how we say “God protected us in the storm.”

It implies a harmful theology that God does *not* care about people who were injured or killed, or in fact sent a hurricane after them. It’s good to be thankful, but

[Julie Roys @reachjulieroys]

"You Commit adultery...and you're done." But molest your daughter like Paul Guay & we'll keep you on staff for 3 years. Or abuse your children like David Gray & we'll excommunicate your wife for failing to take you back into her home. I just can't with these guys. 1/3

[Joy @joyklaprade]

Once upon a time, I thought the Billy Graham Rule made sense.

By avoiding one-on-one time with women they aren’t married to, men would be protected from sin.

And, I was told, men practiced this to honor and protect women.

The problem is, I’ve never seen it work this way

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