Pastor of Texas megachurch resigns following sexual abuse allegations
Religion And Faith,Christianity,Sexual Misconduct
Robert Morris, the pastor of a megachurch in Dallas who was a spiritual adviser to former President Donald Trump, has resigned after a woman said he sexually abused her as a child in the 1980s.
The Board of Elders at Gateway Church announced Morris’s resignation in a statement Tuesday.
“Regretfully, prior to Friday, June 14, the elders did not have all the facts of the inappropriate relationship between Morris and the victim, including her age at the time and the length of the abuse,” the board said in the statement. “The elders’ prior understanding was that Morris’s extramarital relationship, which he had discussed many times throughout his ministry, was with ‘a young lady’ and not the abuse of a 12-year-old child.”
The board said it has hired the law firm Haynes and Boone to conduct an independent investigation into the abuse allegations against Morris, which were first made public Friday on the Christian watchdog site The Wartburg Watch.
