Comments on Youth Pastor Watch

Yeah, too bad we don't live in a civilized country. Like Saudi Arabia. They would have just cut their heads off. (The women's heads, of course.)

she was forbidden from fingering Amyx

I would think turnabout ouwld be fair play...

Seriously though, making her confess to the entire fucking congregation is incredibly evil. Can we outlaw religion already?!?!

turnabout WOULD be

Well, not in the last scenario, where the pastor rape a boy instead of a girl.

What I get from these posts is that child abusers go where children are--where they can use their authority as adults over the child to gratify themselves sexually.

It happens in schools and child care centers, too. (Yes, I get the hypocracy Dan is calling on anti-gay parent politicians/clergy.)

Here's the toughie: This could also happen at LGBT youth programs. Abusers go where kids are.

I want to see criminal background checks done by these groups on volunteers/staff as well as policy guidelines including emotional boundaries. How often is this done? What happens when a gay man arrested for contact with another (adult) gay man in public space stings wants to volunteer?

It's just that I've noticed that when adults show up to volunteer with vulnerable kids, they're often taken at face value. The professions of faith may be enough to get the youth pastors by. Does the profession of working for the future of gay youth give a similar pass?

@5,

I'd like to see these church officials, such as that fuckhead senior pastor in Tennessee and any number of Catholic officials, stop covering for abusers.

Can we outlaw religion already?!?!

I'm sure in secular countries like China it's the Party Youth Leader who does this sort of thing. You know what other group of people molests a lot of children? School teachers. And the biggest culprits? Relatives.

My point being, we should ban religion, school teachers, political parties, and relatives.

flaming: I was making a point about the jackoff senior pastor. And I agree with you about banningteachers, etc...

@6

Sorry--here's what I meant to express: Since the mentioned churches seem to except faith as a entre into youth programs (which is not working to protect youth), I just want to know if secular LGBT programs are protecting vulnerable youth by not using gay activism as the sole entr to their programs.

Thanks for letting me clear that up.

@2 - Making the "sinners" go up to the front and beg forgiveness from the congregation has always been the M.O. of the American Evangelical Church. Not the closet wife-beaters or the raging bigots, though, just the pregnant teens and the cigarette smokers.

Not "except," meant "accept."

Could us man-hatin' feminist types get maybe a tiny lil' bit of mention of the that evil, overused "m" word surrounding the public shaming of a pregnant woman in her church? Pretty please?