Slog - Comments on Youth Pastor Watch http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30 Oklahoma: After more than two years of hiding from police, former Apache Junction teacher and youth pastor Bobby Kennedy was arrested by U.S. Marshals Tuesday in Oklahoma. Kennedy, 29, was a teacher at Morningstar Academy, a small charter school, in early 2005, when he was accused of molesting several teenage students.... According to police and court records, Bobby Kennedy was accused of inappropriately touching one 15-year-old student.... Several months later, two other girls told police similar stories. One of them, a 14-year-old girl, accused him of telling her and another student that he would fail them if they didn't take... Copyright 2008 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:00:40 -0800 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:25:44 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay Dan, if you don't have three evil youth pastor stories, you don't need to use a non-evil youth pastor story as filler. Two evil youth pastor stories is fine.

Just because someone is a wrestler AND a youth pastor, it doesn't make them evil. An asshole? Probably. But not evil.

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974827 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974827 Religion Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:02:32 -0800 Comment by jon c some high school kid wrestles and is a youth minister. so?

]]> jon c http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974828 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974828 Religion Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:03:42 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage I'm just trying to show that not all youth pastors are evil. I'm trying to be fair here people. And balanced. After all it's called "Youth Pastor Watch," not "Evil Youth Pastor Watch."

And come on, Catalina, wouldn't you wanna watch youth pastors wrestle?

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974842 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974842 Religion Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:14:13 -0800 Comment by gillsans Newsflash! Area youth pastor has a goatee, plays a guitar and wears a sweater vest! Details at 11.

]]> gillsans http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974880 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974880 Religion Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:43:34 -0800 Comment by infrequent is there a better way to legally feel young boys than wrestling them?

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974891 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974891 Religion Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:47:13 -0800 Comment by Chris I'd watch youth pastors wrestle. Singlets are hot.

]]> Chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974903 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974903 Religion Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:53:43 -0800 Comment by infrequent okay, my last post was unfair and inappropriate. i'm sorry.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974910 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c974910 Religion Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:56:52 -0800 Comment by trying to be honest and direct I don't know whether to believe you or not Dan (re: comment #3) but putting this wrestling kid who has done nothing wrong in your "Youth Pastor Watch" - a recurring feature that *always* highlights creepy, criminal youth pastors - is really, really, really weak. Really weak.

Look, you piss me off often, but this is wrong. If you're really trying to show that not all youth pastors are evil, do it in a different post and call it "Positive Youth Pastor News." I suspect that wasn't really what you were trying to do here. I suspect you bolded "wrestling" for a reason.

You're an adult, dude. And a journalist. You should really make this right.

]]> trying to be honest and direct http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c975878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/youth_pastor_watch_30#c975878 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:25:44 -0800