Robert Morris has resigned as senior pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, three days after confessing to engaging in “sexual behavior” with a child over the course of a few years in the 1980s. NBC News' Mike Hixenbaugh reports on Morris' influence and how the abuse allegations came to light.
Four days after they learned of decades-old child sex abuse allegations against their senior pastor, Robert Morris, hundreds of Gateway Church employees filed into an auditorium in Southlake, Texas, on Tuesday to learn his fate. Some staff members appeared solemn as they found their seats. Others looked angry. One attendee pulled out her cellphone and secretly hit record. Later, she shared the audio with NBC News and described the meeting in an interview.
“Since the resolution of this 35-year-old matter, there have been no other moral failures,” the elders said in a message to employees Friday. But some Gateway parishioners and staff members viewed the statement itself as a moral failure. Why had church leaders described the alleged sex abuse of a 12-year-old with euphemisms? Fambro didn’t address that question in his remarks Tuesday, and he and other church elders didn’t respond to messages requesting comment.
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