A document submitted by the attorney of Matt Queen contains excerpts from 59 letters of support for the former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor alongside pleas for leniency from Queen himself as his sentencing date approaches for lying to federal investigators.
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Queen, 50, pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Southern New York on Oct. 16 to a charge of falsifying documents related to a Department of Justice investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention and some of its entities. He resigned his pastorate at Friendly Avenue Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, three weeks later.
Sentencing for Queen is set for March 5.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Scott Barkley and originally published by Baptist Press.
