Hail Satan! That or maybe freezing rain.
Evil MFer thread is down the hall.
Or I suppose we could petition to have the threads merged.
I prefer them separate (and one could post the same story in both), since to me there’s an added dimension of evil stupidity when these schmucks proclaim their stupid evil is ordained by their God (who amazingly always agrees with them).
Understandable, since they created Him in their own image and likeness.
Onward Christian soldiers.
He’s blaming it on a 12 year old girl seducing him
“She was 12, but dressed like a 15 year old!”
A megachurch in Lexington, Kentucky has decided to permanently close after the senior pastor was revealed to have had a sexual “relationship” with a minor, beginning when she was 15 years old. The church had been renamed a few years ago after two of that church’s pastors, a man and a woman, were themselves behaving in an inappropriate manner, although it did appear to have been consensual.
I’d be hesitant to put ANY business, secular or not, in that building now!
Here’s a conservative Christian pastor’s take on it.
“Vengence is mine” sayeth The Lord.
“I’ve been deputized!” sayeth the Idiot Follower.
An Alabama youth pastor did what you would expect, then added death threats toward his own wife:
Too bad no drag queens were around to kick his ass.
A youth pastor; who’da thunk it?
I expect other victims to come out of the woodwork.
At this point I’m surprised whenever a youth pastor isn’t a child molester.
There was a time in my life when I was deeply into evangelical/fundamentalist Christianity (I’m not any more), and I worked in such a role for a period of time. Never molested any children. Never wanted to.
Yes I know, the plural of anecdote is not data.
Hyperbole aside, I am genuinely aware there are many youth pastors that are good and decent people. And I don’t mean to denigrate them or blame them for the sins of others.
But as Dan Savage is fond of pointing out, if the people accusing drag queens of sexually grooming children applied the same metric to clergy and youth pastors, every church in America would be shut down.
Preach.
I’m sure most of them have only the best interests of the children at heart, just like Catholic priests.
And strange how it’s never a drag queen making headlines like this, despite all the cries from certain conservative types! 
One of my friends found religion after high school and married a youth pastor. He skeeved me out the first time I met him; finding out about his profession sealed it for me. 
(My own interactions with youth-oriented clergy were mostly positive, considering that I went to a Catholic elementary school. Although sitting here thinking back, it has occurred to me that if a student ‘messenger’ needed to deliver or retrieve something from one of the priests, somehow it always ended up being a group of two or three little messengers that went to his office.)
Several years ago, a church I attended a few times (in this case, Evangelical Free) when I was in college had a scandal involving their youth pastor. I wondered how they handled it, and in this case, the entire website was taken down except for the home page, which said something like, “This is a very painful and traumatic time for our congregation. Please keep us in your prayers.”