As stated in the brief, “the SBC Executive Committee believes that public policy in favor of ensuring relief and justice for victims of childhood sexual abuse is commendable.”
“The argument here is limited specifically to non-offending third parties,” the EC said. “The statutory and constitutional due process concerns explained in the brief do not negate empathy for survivors of sexual abuse nor the reform efforts that are underway.”
The EC concluded its statement by letting the public know that “not one SBC Executive Committee trustee was involved in the decision to join this amicus brief” and that the EC’s counsel “reviewed the brief and recommended it be joined.” The EC further said that the response to the amicus brief’s filing has “prompted the current SBC Executive Committee trustees to reevaluate how legal filings will be approved and considered in the future.”
SBC Sexual Abuse Survivors Tiffany Thigpen, Jules Woodson, Jennifer Lyell and Christa Brown Respond
Tiffany Thigpen, an SBC sexual abuse survivor and advocate and one of 10 names listed in the SBC apology to abuse survivors given in a 2022 resolution titled “On Lament and Repentance for Sexual Abuse,” provided ChurchLeaders with a response to the EC’s statement.
“While the legal defense strategy is understandable, for the attorneys to do what they are paid to do—protecting their client—it does not tamp out the dumpster fire or the pain caused,” Thigpen said.
“The messengers spoke: waive privilege, secure justice, remove the rot, and make it safer,” she added. “Survivors should receive the full support of the EC and SBC in recompense for their betrayals and lack of care.”
Thigpen said that “we know that these choices were based on cases in which there would be cost to the base. The whole EC will suffer because of the choices of a few, but survivors suffer far more.”
Jules Woodson, an SBC sexual abuse survivor and advocate and another one of the 10 people named in the SBC apology, posted on social media that the EC’s “statement is absolute 
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“I think a lot of SBC messengers are finally discovering that what us survivors have been saying for years is true,” she added. “Money and power are what matters to the SBC. Despite the good intentions of some in the pews, those in charge do what they want.”
Jennifer Lyell, yet another SBC sexual abuse survivor and advocate named in the SBC apology, posted, “It is intellectually dishonest and cognitively dissonant for anyone to assert that it is ‘not a lobbying effort’ when an amicus brief is proactively filed to argue a specific interpretation of a piece of state legislation. That IS lobbying.”
 Executive Committee (EC) has released a statement responding to the criticism of an amicus brief that was quietly submitted on its behalf to the Kentucky Supreme Court earlier this year.){kind=link}