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I have banned someone who was trolling this comment thread. If you see any problems in the future, please send me a message and I'll take care of it!

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Somehow the transkids are to blame, I just know it ....🤔

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Here we go again. Youth pastor = Child Molester. At this point, it's becoming effectively axiomatic, and yet no one in their bubble can bring themselves to see it.

Contemptible.

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There’s a meme going round, pretty sure it’s been posted on FA comment threads many times, of a wildlife photographer taking a picture of some bird while in the background there’s two rhinos humping and the rhinos are labeled priests and altar boys and the photographer is the church and the bird is drag queens (now, I’m pretty sure the bird has changed depending on the current target of right wing animosity).

Day in and day out we are provided example after example of clergy doing actual, real, and deliberate harm with sexual abuse on children while the world is mainly silent. Yes, I know there are some folks sounding the alarm, making reports and so on, it just falls on deaf ears when it comes to folks who can do something about it. But then some nincompoop in the GOP decides on the next outrage to distract everyone from their criminal incompetence and corruption and just mentions drag queens, and all hell breaks loose folks are lining up with their AR15s to “protect the children” from nothing at all. It boggles the mind. These same folks jumping to violence over drag Queen story hour are the same folks excusing, enabling and hiding the predator clergy in their own churches, if they aren’t also molesting children themselves. (Yes, there are cases of pout boys and other who terrorized libraries who also are prosecuted for sexual assault). It is projection pure and simple.

This needs to end. The sexual abuse in churches needs to stop and the vilification of the innocent must end.

For all the blister and whining men do over the rare possibility that they get wrongly accused of rape, you’d think they’d be a little more careful who they accuse of grooming and assault. But then it’s clear they are telling on themselves. They’d falsely accuse, they do falsely accuse all the time, therefore everyone else is falsely accusing.

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I hate that this does not surprise me. Disgusting and sickening.

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It's not his fault, he saw a non-biblical rainbow once! Or perhaps his neighbors voted for Biden? I wouldn't hold my breath for any kind of apology from an IFB church, if they had shame they wouldn't be an IFB church.

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One more honest man victim of us Jezabels 🙄

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May 3, 2023·edited May 3, 2023

I hate to say it but Webb almost certainly trafficked her as well as abusing her. If neither of them had gonorrhea before going, then clearly there was a third party involved on the island. Look for unexpected deposits into his accounts, and nail him for that too.

$10 says that when his wife divorces him, the church says it was her fault, calls her a slut, and starts a fund to help him pay for a lawyer. (I choose, for the moment, to optimistically think that his wife wasn't in on it.)

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May 3, 2023·edited May 3, 2023

Ah Christians. Never a day goes by where their nonsense, evil and sick plights are not unearthed for all to see. And this is the group that preaches their God as the source of their morality and yet, your run of the mill atheist has more integrity and interest for honesty that the vast majority of the religious. Whether it was religion or not that contributed to this at this late stage is irrelevant. What we do know is this does tend to happen with a great frequency amongst those who are sexually repressed like Roman Catholic priests, but even religious fundamentalism with its strict black and white dictates also can contribute to people bursting out like monsters simple because those strictures can be too much and unrealistic. Don't get me wrong i am not blaming religion entirely for this, bad people simply do bad things. But when we see bad people in great numbers and on a daily basis usually doing them with religious backgrounds, it should be cause for raised eyebrows.

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Pedophiles go where the kids are. I have little to no use for the clergy, and none what so ever for missionaries. They are a cancer. Pedophile members of the clergy have been allowed to hide behind their clerical collars and Bibles for far to long.

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May 3, 2023·edited May 3, 2023

The sexual abuse of a 4-year-old simply wasn't enough for this man of God. He just had to throw an STD into the mix.

That thing about "There is no situation so bad that cannot be made infinitely worse by religion" rings true once more. Webb should spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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Obviously the jury didn't need it, but I'm surprised there wasn't genetic testing of the two strains of gonorrhea to show they were related.

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May 3, 2023·edited May 3, 2023

Okay, I've just reported one of their more egregious comments. The woman is fucking crazy. Supposedly had 20 years in academia? They obviously didn't teach her how to argue without abuse.

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I know Hemant obsesses about this perhaps a little too much, but it is totally depressing. Every week we get something like this about people who essentially ruin kids' lives. And yet after the fuss and maybe some punishment which isn't always a given, the perps' lives tend to go on much the same as ever, because of course God has forgiven them. I think I'll just go and bury my head in the sand for a while. See you all later.

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He doesn't look like a drag queen.

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WendesdaY. Check.

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