STATEMENT BY PAM PALMER, MOTHER OF PLAINTIFF RENEE PALMER GAMBY Pam Palmer June 8th, 2013 at 1:12 pm Julie

Anne Smith (Spiritual Sounding Board http://spiritualsoundingboard.com/ ), Thank you for posting about all of this. The tactics and pressure that Houstons First Baptist Church exerted on Amy Smith are deplorable. It is never a conflict of interest for a concerned Christian to encourage awareness of child sexual abuse and the cover-up of it, that has gone on in some of our churches. I am planning on standing with Amy Smith and SNAP and linking arms with them at this Awareness Event outside of the SBC meeting. As the mother of one of the SGM survivors/plaintiffs, I want to publicly support Amy and SNAP as they seek to raise awareness about the problems of sex abuse cover-up, which has occurred allegedly within the SBC at Prestonwood Baptist. I am also choosing to stand outside the SBC during its meeting, because of the T4G statement, which some of the top SBC leaders made, who as I understand it, will be in attendance and/or speaking at the SBC meeting Al Mohler and Mark Dever, specifically. In this T4G statement, they openly honored C.J. Mahaney, and in relation to our lawsuit on the alleged sex abuse cover-up in SGM, declared that no such accusation of direct wrongdoing was ever made against C.J. Mahaney. They have since altered this statement surreptitiously and removed this phrase. C.J. Mahaney is the former President of Sovereign Grace Ministries and former Senior Pastor of Covenant Life Church, and was leading at the helm, during the bulk of the cases currently listed on our lawsuit. He also was directly listed in several of the Factual Allegations on our Second Amended Complaint, as being allegedly directly involved with the knowledge and cover-up of several different sex abuse cases. Therefore, as a symbolic gesture, I am going to be standing outside of the Convention center with SNAP, this Tuesday, in protest of these SBC pastors support of C.J. Mahaney and their lack of support for the survivors of sex abuse from SGM. I also want to applaud the efforts of Peter Lumpkins, who is planning on bringing his Resolution on Sexual Abuse of Children at the SBC meeting. This issue of child sex abuse in our churches, which has traumatically affected my own family, is obviously close to my heart and I welcome the support from Peter, as he takes this eloquent stand to bring about change in the way our Christian institutions handle ministries or pastors mired in sex abuse scandal. When there is a sex abuse scandal in a church or ministry protecting the flock and protecting the little lambs should always be our priority.