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On July 13, 2011, Dave Harvey posted Sovereign Grace Ministries Board of Directors announcement regarding C.J. Mahaney. I will deal with this entire blog post at a later date. For now, I want to address the specific charge of public slander. I will write several posts laying out my reasons for sending The Documents to the SGM pastors on July 6, 2011. I believe my action was required and did not constitute slander. I will put forward my case and you can decide based upon the information presented and the teaching of Scripture. Here are the comments regarding slander.
The board of Sovereign Grace has made the following resolutions…. That Brent Detwiler’s distribution of written accusations against C.J. Mahaney to all Sovereign Grace pastors constitutes the public slander of Mahaney’s reputation…the public defamation of his character.
The SGM Board expressed no concerns for my motives or the accuracy of The Documents. The charge of slander was leveled because I distributed my documents to the SGM pastors.
Typically, slander is comprised of three parts: 1) evil motives or malicious intent; 2) false charges known to be bogus or inaccurate; 3) the distribution of damaging information that is unwarranted.
Al Mohler accused me of number one when he told a Louisville newspaper that I had “an obvious
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