Slog - Comments on Youth Pastor Watch http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27 Pennsylvania: A United Methodist Church minister from Conneautville arrested Wednesday on Internet pornography charges has been suspended from his ministerial duties--including that as the church district youth minister. The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General alleges [Rev. Steven Richard] McGuigan engaged in sexually explicit e-mail conversations in Internet chat rooms with what he believed was a 13-year-old girl seven different times between December 2007 and January, including one from chat from his place of employment--the church. Authorities also allege that during two of the conversations McGuigan sent sexually explicit videos of himself to her via the Internet. Ohio: A Clermont County... Copyright 2008 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:19:33 -0800 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:10:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by sam I don't get the last one. Am I missing something?

]]> sam http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958871 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958871 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:25:15 -0800 Comment by Confused What's the matter with that last one. A couple of kids become eagle scouts and their youth pastor helped with the ceremony. What am I missing?

]]> Confused http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958874 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958874 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:26:51 -0800 Comment by Providence Looking at the picture in the article, I'd say the only way those 2 boys will ever get laid is if the youth paster does them.

]]> Providence http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958886 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958886 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:32:34 -0800 Comment by JT So now it's a youth pastor watch if the offender knows a youth pastor?

]]> JT http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958887 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958887 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:37:02 -0800 Comment by Hernandez Dan, could you explain why the last one is included? Are the scouts providing badges for blowing youth ministers or something?

]]> Hernandez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958894 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958894 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:40:28 -0800 Comment by Aislinn I'm guessing the last one might have something to do with this: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=526436

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958908 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958908 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:51:54 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Hehe. "Breakfast".

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958915 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958915 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:53:17 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage Come on, people. You've never heard of the eagle pledge? It makes donkey punching look tamer than a hot karl or an icy mike.

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958918 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958918 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:53:59 -0800 Comment by Providence Well Dan, since I wasted 10 minutes googling variations on "Eagle Pledge" and got nothing but boy scount crapola, I have to believe that you're putting us on. Fuck you very much.

]]> Providence http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958933 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958933 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:05:55 -0800 Comment by Burgin99 10 POST "PEDOPHILE PRIEST UPDATE"
20 POST "HOMICIDAL HETERO PARENT UPDATE"
30 POST "WHINE ABOUT LAST SUPPER HYPOCRISY"
40 GOTO 10

]]> Burgin99 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958937 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958937 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:09:34 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty No, frankly, I haven't heard of it, but I somehow seriously doubt that it involves sex with youth pastors.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958939 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958939 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:10:02 -0800 Comment by w7ngman This is an unhealthy obsession, Dan.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958942 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958942 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:12:01 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty Found the pledge in about 10 seconds and, folks, it's official - Dan has gone around the bend.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958989 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958989 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:32:03 -0800 Comment by toadfood It seems pretty obvious to me. If the Boy Scouts are really concerned about the boys, they should let the gays in and ban the youth pastors.

]]> toadfood http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958990 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c958990 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:32:14 -0800 Comment by ExiledInLA well Dan, I followed the link to the PA story b/c it was my hometown paper in high school (w00t...Meadville!!), and I found a sidebar story about how everyone is "saddened but not surprised" that the offending party is a youth minister:
http://www.meadvilletribune.com/local/local_story_065230334.html

Dan, these are some of the most guileless, credulous people on the planet. If they know what's up with youth ministers, I think you've probably hit the bottom of the barrel for an audience to whom you can "expose" these terrible truths.

But I guess it's still a useful enterprise in terms of having a "blog of record" for youth pastor misdeeds. So whatever, I guess...shine on like the youth-pastor-hatin' crazy diamond you are.

-EILA

]]> ExiledInLA http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c959065 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c959065 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:04:27 -0800 Comment by robo Re: the boy scouts-- be glad Rick Perry isn't your gov. He's mine and he's a moron... Texas will always be the laughingstock of the country:

PERRY: ...Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

SOLOMON: Why do you think a homosexual would be more likely to bring the subject of sex into a conversation than a heterosexual?

PERRY: Well, the ban in scouting applies to scout leaders. When you have a clearly open homosexual scout leader, the scouts are going to talk about it. And they're not there to learn about that. They're there to learn about what it means to be loyal and trustworthy and thrifty.

SOLOMON: But don't you think that homosexuals might also be interested in being loyal and thrifty?

PERRY: The argument that gets made is that homosexuality is about sex. Do you agree?

SOLOMON: No.

PERRY: Well, then why don't they call it something else?

]]> robo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c959173 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c959173 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:55:10 -0800 Comment by Mr. Joshua How about my old youth pastor, who had to leave one job. One of the girls was depressed, and talking to her high school counselor, let on that the one person she really felt loved by was her youth pastor. So the counselor told her she must be gay for her youth pastor.

]]> Mr. Joshua http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c959555 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_27#c959555 Religion Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:10:43 -0800