As soon as yesterday's post was published, Marie begun to hear that, in spite of what was being said informally, those involved were (as is the unfortunate custom at Southwest Baptist University) taking advantage of Marie's noble and tender-hearted concern for SBU students and others.
In actuality, they had NO intention of cooperating with an acknowledgement and a carefully-worded apology. In fact, their pleas appear to be nothing more than an effort to stall the Internal Investigation.
To safeguard against this ploy, Marie has integrated two former proposals -- allowing the OPTION of a PUBLIC APOLOGY and participation in the Restorative Justice process and, otherwise, REQUIRING the initiation of the Internal Investigation, which is to be monitored weekly by the officials of the Missouri Baptist Convention until the October 2008 meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention.
Details to be posted later today ...
