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Becoming Alert to Conservative Protestant Sexual Abusers and Their Enablers
patheos ^ | Daniel Fincke

Posted on 07/01/2014 7:51:24 AM PDT by Morgana

Last night I listened to the new Reasonable Doubts podcast, which included a detailed account of the case of self-righteously Christian former major league baseball player and eventual sex abuse convict, Chad Curtis. The show is a gripping and revolting listen, and as usual the Doubtcasters bring to bear a lot of insight in the process both of telling the story and in analyzing it at the end. Doubtcaster Jeremy Beahan went to college at Cornerstone University where Chad Curtis was a prominent figure, earning his degree to go into high school coaching (where he would commit his sex crimes). Before even dealing with the Curtis case, they also critically analyze evangelical Christians’ warped and potentially destructive tendencies to pathologize masturbation as a matter of addiction. Please listen here. The official description of the episode is below:

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TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: christian; church; perverts; protestant; rape; religion; sexabusers; sexoffenders
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To: G Larry

To heck with the media attention, does not mean we did not know about it. It’s always been around.


21 posted on 07/01/2014 9:34:55 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

There is nothing “conservative” about sexual abuse, you have to have a very open mind to think that is okay.


22 posted on 07/01/2014 9:37:04 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Morgana

This person probably won’t write about sexual abuse in the public schools. Just a thought.


23 posted on 07/01/2014 9:38:12 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

“There is nothing “conservative” about sexual abuse, you have to have a very open mind to think that is okay.”

I don’t think that is what the author meant. Conservative churches as in churches that lean to the right as apposed to those that lean to the left. Now you know this.


24 posted on 07/01/2014 9:56:59 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: GeronL; metmom; All

“This person probably won’t write about sexual abuse in the public schools. Just a thought.”

Gerry, all of you get off it okay? Here at Free Republic we have a “Home School Ping” just to let us know how much of cesspool our public schools have become. I am sure Metmom will back me up when I say it’s best to private school or home school your kids in this day and age.

Our schools suck. We know this and have known it for decades. It’s when our churches go downhill that we are really in trouble. We lose our kids in churches due to sexual abuse then we have really lost.


25 posted on 07/01/2014 10:02:21 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

We had a recent experience with some rumors a person in authority at a religious affiliated educational institution. No clue if the rumors are true as we don’t know the people involved well. But we did hear the words, “How can we make this go away?” Makes me very suspicious now.


26 posted on 07/01/2014 10:03:24 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: petitfour

Rumors about . . .


27 posted on 07/01/2014 10:04:00 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: Morgana

The article is nothing but an attack on “conservative” christians


28 posted on 07/01/2014 10:07:41 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: petitfour

“But we did hear the words, “How can we make this go away?” Makes me very suspicious now.”

As it should! It should NOT be “How can we make this go away?” but “How do we get to the bottom of this?”.


29 posted on 07/01/2014 10:08:42 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: GeronL

I see no attacks.


30 posted on 07/01/2014 10:13:54 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

The media has for decades pretended that the problem was isolated to within a single church, as though it didn’t exist inside the Public School system across the country.

So please explain what means “we’ve always known”?


31 posted on 07/01/2014 2:40:04 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Morgana

Scanned the article and didn’t see anything unique to mega-churches.

Let me know if I missed something.


32 posted on 07/01/2014 5:44:20 PM PDT by Gamecock (There is room for all of God's animals. Right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.)
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