Hunt, a former Georgia megachurch pastor and denominational official who served as SBC president from 2008 to 2010, sued the denomination in 2023, alleging defamation.

Southern Baptist pastor Johnny Hunt, a former SBC president, is suing the SBC Executive Committee and a third-party firm, Guidepost Solutions, for defamation over abuse allegations in a 2022 report.

Third-party investigator Guidepost Solutions published a historic report in May 2022 on SBC sex abuse crisis, including allegations that former SBC president Johnny Hunt molested a woman in 2010.

Hunt served from 2008 to 2010 as SBC president and remained a popular speaker before the Guidepost report. Court-ordered mediation on the case failed last fall. A trial had been scheduled this summer.

In March 2023, Hunt filed a lawsuit against the denomination, the SBC Executive Committee, and Guidepost, accusing them of wrongfully defaming his character and violating his privacy.

Hunt filed his six-count, 330-page lawsuit in March 2023, naming the SBC, the SBC Executive Committee and Guidepost Solutions after he was accused of sexual assault by a young minister's wife in ...

Hunt, a 72-year-old longtime pastor who formerly served as president of the SBC, was named in the report, with a woman who was the wife of a young pastor accusing him of having assaulted her in 2010.

Hunt, a former Georgia megachurch pastor and denominational official who served as SBC president from 2008 to 2010, sued the denomination in 2023, alleging defamation. Hunt was named in the ...