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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Youth Pastor Watch / Religion Youth Pastor Watch, O They Will Know We Are Christians, There Is No Morality Without Religion, Etc.

Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:24 AM

A Minnesota man who allegedly pimped his wife out for sex on Craigslist has been charged with a felony following his arrest at a downtown Chicago Hotel. Clinton Danner, 32, of Rockford, Minn., is accused of forcing his wife to have sex with strangers at locations across the country.

He was arrested Sunday night by Cook County Sheriff’s Police as he arrived to pick up his wife from a downtown Holiday Inn where he made her stay for the weekend, prosecutors said today. Though he’d planned for her to fly home Monday, he called to tell her he was disappointed by how little money she’d made over the weekend and was personally driving to Chicago to confront her, authorities said.

Seeking help, his wife secretly called the Polaris national sex trafficking hotline, leading to Danner’s arrest by Sheriff’s police.... Danner met his wife five years ago, when she was 17 and he was a 27-year-old church youth counselor, Antonietti said. By then, Danner already had a string of felony convictions in Minnesota, including two burglary convictions in 1996, a 1996 lottery fraud conviction and a 2002 drug conviction.

The Chicago Sun-Times didn't name the Minnesota church that allowed Danner—a man with a string of felony convictions"—to serve as youth counselor/pimp to teenage congregants.

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I wonder if he'd like a prison pen pal? writeaprisoner.com

Posted by Vince on March 18, 2010 at 9:32 AM

Well, at least he's not gay. THAT would be bad.

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on March 18, 2010 at 9:37 AM

That poor woman, I'm glad there was someone she could call for help.

Posted by SpookyCats on March 18, 2010 at 10:02 AM

And even better, he apparently "controlled his wife with threats to their child, convincing her she would never see their preschooler again if she didn't take part."

Posted by Dingo on March 18, 2010 at 10:03 AM

Well, he's bad and all, but at least he wasn't elected Pope.

Posted by kinaidos on March 18, 2010 at 10:18 AM

Classy

Posted by yourmom.com on March 18, 2010 at 10:21 AM

Well, at least he's a christian.

Posted by The Amazing Jim

on March 18, 2010 at 10:32 AM

All he has to do is pray for God to forgive him, and he still gets to go to Heaven, right?

Posted by very bad homo on March 18, 2010 at 10:50 AM

Mugshot says "DERP". Totally.
But yeah, what a scumbag.

Posted by venomlash on March 18, 2010 at 11:10 AM

Strange that Savage would link to a story that suggests sex work is anything other than an empowering career. Very sex-negative of you Dan Savage! What's next? Tales of happy and sexually gratified monogamous breeders?

Posted by Cade on March 18, 2010 at 11:40 AM

Fuck You Dan,
you credulous Hack.
Quit vomiting up the Police version
and calling it Journalism.

EVERYONE knows that people who cross over to prostitution cross right back- anytime they want to....

Posted by Biffany on March 18, 2010 at 12:02 PM

Minnesota is a backward ignorant evil cesspool.
Get out while you can.....

Posted by Garrison Squealer on March 18, 2010 at 12:04 PM

10

Sexual Slavery ≠ Race

...Oops, I mean "sex work," not "race." Silly me.

Posted by Loveschild must be indoctrinating me on March 18, 2010 at 12:06 PM

@12 Rockford is in Michelle Bachman's district, I presume?

Posted by foolish-rain on March 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM

Interesting side note: According to Christianity, this man, the Pope and the Dr. Tiller's murderer are going to heaven, and Dan Savage is going to hell.

I think hell sounds pretty good right about now. Sounds like all the moral people go there. I wanna get in the "hell" line. Haha ;)

Posted by doesurmindglow on March 18, 2010 at 1:09 PM

@11 and 12

There is a HUGE difference between a consensual exchange of sex for money and holding your wife hostage and having her raped by strange men for money.

Posted by Justice on March 18, 2010 at 1:42 PM

Oh sorry, I meant @ 10 and 11...

Posted by Justice on March 18, 2010 at 1:44 PM