Posted on 07/03/2008 7:42:55 PM PDT by Coleus
A Watertown pastor suspected tonight of having sexual contact with a child. KSFY obtained these court documents which lays out the case against Dennis Hayes. In documents released by Watertown Police, we're told the suspected contact happened last Friday when Hayes took a juvenile boy he had been mentoring from the "Southwest Youth Services Center" in Magnolia, Minnesota to a library in Luverne, Minnesota.
The boy claims during the drive to Luverne, Hayes held his hand and told him he loved him. While at the Luverne library, he claims Hayes rubbed his back outside his shirt. During the drive back to Magnolia, he says hayes touched and rubbed his hand again.
And upon arriving in Magnolia, he claims Hayes slid his hand down into his pants and rubbed his buttocks. The boy told authorities this has been going on for a year. Hayes has told police he has patted and rubbed the boy in the past to calm him down, but then admitted he had placed his hand in the boys pants and touched his buttocks.
Hayes is a pastor at St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Watertown he is now charged with three counts of sexual contact with a minor: In addition, Hayes was arrested today and charged with possession of child porn. He's free on his own recognizance tonight. I called Dennis Hayes house tonight: I wanted to ask him about these charges made against him. A female answered the phone and told me he could not talk about it.
one good thing about your posts is that it reminds me to click news/activism so that I can avoid them. So, thanks for posting to religion or wherever these things end up.
I had a dream/vision years ago that God was going to judge America. And He was going to start with the leaders in His Church. God is still patient and gracious, and we are continually being warned.
Thanks for the kindness of your pletherea of exhortations about Protty sex crimes. It’s encouraging to see that God really is beginning HIS housecleansing with the Christians as He said He woudl in His Word.
I do suspect He will get to other religious clubs in due course.
Well said.
Thanks for your kind words.
in my experience, it’s very tricky and not always successful to avoid contamination by any persistent even merely ‘fascination’ with such a problem . . . even in ‘others’ . . . even in one’s ‘enemies.’
So, we might do well to pray for folks who might unwittingly have developed such a fascination with pointing out Prottys’ sins in such regard that the enemy begins to seduce their interests, fascinations, judgments in dreadfully destructive ways—usually ways that are difficult to detect until one is well down the slippery slope. Haughty critical judgments tend to function that way routinely but particularly in the sexual realm. I know from hard dreadful personal experience.
Amen Quix.
Satan will attack Christ’s church in any manner possible. We should be thankful that the evil one’s minions are being purged.
Did you forget the [sarcasm] tag?
[HUMOR ALERT. FOR THE HUMORLESS—SCROLL ON BY—this ain’t for you]
It’s rumored to be a new world council of churches global government, global one world religion committee generated dogma.
Retroactive sinless lives and conceptions for all—errrr all of a particular clique, or club, that is. I’m not sure what the initiation fees and rites are, however.
I also haven’t figured out what the difference is between the standard and deluxe models.
Maybe I should join up. Never felt sinless before—except as covered by The Blood.
I had a friend once who wanted to invent a new product . . . perpetual virginity. He was convinced he’d become very wealthy. Trouble is, he never got it off the ground . . . off the operating table or off the . . . well . . . or something.
“Did you forget the [sarcasm] tag?”
No, as all these threads are reminding us, Protestants are the only people who sin. When we run out of these sexual sins (if we ever do) them maybe we can turn to Protestants who lie or maybe cheat on their taxes. Maybe even the big ones like tearing off the warning labels on pillows and mattresses or not separating the bottles and cans from the garbage.
We may need a whole new forum just for Protestant sin since they obviously are the only ones who do!
OBVIOUSLY.
I mean . . . 100% of the ‘others’ are 100% honest, accurate, truthful, 100% Biblical, anointed, full of the milk of human kindness by the gallons in every vein . . .
And OBVIOUSLY so.
This stuff has been hidden in the dark for too long.
” Haughty critical judgments tend to function that way routinely but particularly in the sexual realm. I know from hard dreadful personal experience.”
Is posting facts the same thing as making “haughty critical judgments”?
And—do you mean that a fascination with the sexual sins of others is contagious? What does “hard, dreadful personal experience” mean?
Thank you, Coleus, for reminding the protestants every day that their hubris (expressed so eloquently by their crowd over the Catholic scandals) has come back to bite them.
So far, only one of them has expressed gratitude that God is purging their ranks. The rest are still busy making slams, excuses, and denials.
Did you notice that not one of the protestant denial crowd has expressed any concern over the fate of the hundred of victims?
“Thank you, Coleus, for reminding the protestants every day that their hubris (expressed so eloquently by their crowd over the Catholic scandals) has come back to bite them.”
Good point, fight hubris with hubris, that’s the ticket!
If you can find any post of mine anywhere, where I defended any child molester of any religion whatsoever, please produce it here.
More than once, I posted that if my children had ever beem molested by any church figure, there would be no question of a settlement in the millions, I would be in prison for deliberate, premeditated murder. My contention is that those who settled for millions wanted money in exchange for their children’s (or their own) innocence. Protestant churches are poor, have no central authority to sue, thus short prison sentences is the best that can be done, if even that.
Don't bet on it. It's a typical reaction to point your finger at someone else and say "they did it to" to try and mitigate the damage from your own sin.
As far as the pastor goes if the claims hold up I hope he goes to prison and gets what he deserves. One thing I have seen in Baptist churches is when something like this is claimed the authorities are brought in and the perpetrators are prosecuted. I know in this case it was a Lutheran church and I'm not as well versed on their organizational structure. I don't believe they just transfer these guys around.
God is quite serious in Scirpture about beginning his judgment and cleansing with The House of God.
IF a group remains unscathed, it’s much more serious—it means He doesn’t consider them part of The House of God to begin with.
We are all sinners saved by Grace or merely unrepentant sinners. The consequences are quite different for each category.
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