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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TedKennedy" data-source="post: 4002569" data-attributes="member: 25419">As evidence of this “abuse,” Erlick pointed to a 2014 <a href="https://www.wadeburleson.org/2014/05/austin-davis-covenant-presbyterian-and.html" target="_blank">blog</a> written by Oklahoma Baptist pastor Wade Burleson, who detailed how a leading layman in Covenant Presbyterian Church —  the man who designed the Covenant School logo with the Latin phrase Veritas Christo et Ecclesia  (“Truth for Christ and the Church”) — was facing persecution from church leaders, whom he accused of covering up sexual abuse of minors by a deacon in the church.That alleged abuse happened in the early to mid-2000s, which would correspond with the time this week’s 28-year-old shooter was involved in the school and perhaps the church. No direct link has been stated between this alleged abuse and the shooter. Whether the shooter attended the church as well as the school is not known.What is known is that Pastor Bachmann and other church leaders were accused of mishandling the knowledge of this alleged child molester, who because of his position reportedly had free reign at the church and the school. And it is also public record that the church engaged in a long-running dispute with the church leader who sounded an alarm about the abuse, a man named Austin Davis, who eventually was barred from attending the church. In a twisted irony, church leaders portrayed Davis as a “possible shooter” and a threat to the congregation and the pastorMay be more to this story as things unfold.</blockquote>

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