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In another case, late final yr, Paul Pressler, who helped lead a conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention within the late 1970s and early 1980s, was accused of sexually abusing a young man for several a long time, beginning when the alleged sufferer was 14. A pending lawsuit against Pressler, who is a former justice on the Texas 14th Circuit Court of Appeals and who served within the Texas legislature, additionally names Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and its president, Paige Patterson, as defendants. Within the 1980s, sexual and financial scandals involving televangelists Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart and Paul Crouch sent shock waves by the evangelical world. Sex-abuse scandals in evangelical churches have been highlighted recently by Rachael Denhollander, the first girl to make allegations towards sports physician Larry Nassar. When the Catholic intercourse-abuse scandals emerged in the United States, part of the larger outcry was how the church hierarchy was involved in covering up circumstances. In evangelical circles, the place churches are sometimes nondenominational or loosely connected to one another, the lack of hierarchy may cause a different set of issues, said Heath Carter, a professor of historical past at Valparaiso University. Theories abound, but no one can say with certainty when, where, or why male circumcision began.