One of them secretly audiotaped a meeting with Torres—to the great satisfaction of the cabal—in which the pastor shared that he’d been reading a book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi, an academic and civil rights activist. This was a smoking gun. The cabal went to Goodwill’s board of elders and alleged that Torres was a Marxist who was teaching Critical Race Theory. They demanded he be fired. Rebuffed by the elders, the cabal wrote a letter to the EPC denomination repeating the claims and seeking Torres’s removal from the church.
