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Evangelist sentenced to 175 years for sex crimes
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Posted on 11/13/2009 12:34:12 PM PST by JoeProBono

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FILE - In this Tuesday, July 14, 2009 file photo, Evangelist Tony Alamo, center is led from the federal courthouse in downtown Texarkana Ark. The aging preacher, 75, faces up to a 175-year sentence from U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes when he returns to a Texarkana, Ark., federal courtroom on FridayNov. 13. A jury convicted him in July of 10 counts of taking underage girls as young as 8 across state lines for sex. (AP Photo/Texarkana Gazette, Evan Lewis)


1 posted on 11/13/2009 12:34:12 PM PST by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

What a piece of garbage...no offense to garbage.


2 posted on 11/13/2009 12:37:01 PM PST by Hoosier Catholic Momma (Arkansas resident of Hoosier upbringing--Yankee with a southern twang)
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To: JoeProBono

That’ll give him a lot of time to ponder the error of his ways... and then some. What an incredible story and tragedy for all those that fell victim to this lump of .. crap.


3 posted on 11/13/2009 12:40:49 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: JoeProBono

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy!


4 posted on 11/13/2009 12:41:04 PM PST by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: JoeProBono

Evangelist? More like cult leader....


5 posted on 11/13/2009 12:45:18 PM PST by griswold3 (You think health care is expensive now? Just wait till it's FREE!)
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To: JoeProBono

Well, he’ll have a whole new kind of ministry now.


6 posted on 11/13/2009 12:47:38 PM PST by DallasDeb (USAFA '06 Mom)
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So he’s going to be like 250 years old when they release him back into society? I’d a gave him life without parole.


7 posted on 11/13/2009 1:05:40 PM PST by BipolarBob (Thailand?)
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To: JoeProBono
*Reading Headline only* His testicles should be removed immediately if not sooner. However, a true evangelist would have not committed this atrocity. But, I'm wondering if this is just spin which is using the word 'evangelist'.
8 posted on 11/13/2009 1:11:05 PM PST by Outlaw Woman (I will die on my feet before I live on my knees.)
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To: JoeProBono
This cult leader should have been imprisoned decades ago. If they would only lock up Osteen and the other television “evangelists” cult leaders with him, Christianity would be far better off.
9 posted on 11/13/2009 1:24:46 PM PST by Nosterrex
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To: Hoosier Catholic Momma
He's a creep, and a bigot, and a liar.

Check out his Website. Warning: It's a sewer.

10 posted on 11/13/2009 1:27:02 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Outlaw Woman

Ping to #10.


11 posted on 11/13/2009 1:28:12 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I can not imagine the terror of those little girls forced to sleep with that creepy old man.
Plain disgusting.And the people who aided and abetted should have the same punishment,if not worse for doing what they did.
Children of God should never be used in ANY immoral transactions.As for that,not used in ANY way except for goodness.
Children are innocent,and I do believe the LORD WILL TAKE CARE OF THEM.
Hang the perv.


12 posted on 11/13/2009 1:29:03 PM PST by xarmydog
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To: JoeProBono

...special place in hell...


13 posted on 11/13/2009 1:32:21 PM PST by BJClinton (http://www.williamsfortexas.com/)
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14 posted on 11/13/2009 1:38:35 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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It’s just a matter of time until behavior like his becomes a human right protected by law.

Just give the Democrats enough time.


15 posted on 11/13/2009 1:42:24 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
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Garish, isn't it?

Applying the term "Christian" to the filth on that website is blasphemous.

16 posted on 11/13/2009 1:46:07 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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Pastor Tony Alamo is not guilty, yet they still convicted him.

PRESS RELEASE
From Tony Alamo
July 17, 2009
Regarding Government-Vatican Persecution vs. Tony Alamo

It is a violation of the US Constitution for the government to attack any religion, especially Christianity!! My trial is government vs. the Bible. The five young women who are falsely testifying against me have all been convinced to do so by the FBI.

The FBI paid all of their tuition to go to a place called Wellspring, which is a “deprogramming center.” Deprogramming is a nice word for hypnosis, brainwashing, mind-control, voodoo, black magic. Their testimony is not to be believed because it is not true, and they are not in their right mind. They are under a hateful spell of witchcraft. They (in court) have all said that I, Tony Alamo, said, “The Lord said you are to marry me.” This is all a lie. I never told that to any one of them. Their testimonies cannot be believed because they are all uniformly brainwashed. They (the young women) never contacted the FBI; the FBI contacted every one of them and gave them thousands of dollars and many gifts to lie for them. The FBI is against the Bible, Christianity, God, and all Christian churches.

The legal age of marriage is puberty. Webster’s Dictionary states childhood is the “state or time of being a child; state or time from birth or infancy to puberty or maturity.” Webster’s definition of puberty is “the age when one becomes capable to bear children, which is marked by maturing of the reproductive organs, with the onset of menstruation in the female; the period at which sexual maturity is reached.” The Bible says this as well.

God’s Word, the Bible, never condemns a man for having more than one wife!

Remember how they murdered, burnt up, the Christians at Waco, Texas! They are demonic. Witnesses for the FBI and all those they have paid to go to Wellspring are all saying the same thing, what they are told to say.


17 posted on 11/13/2009 1:46:07 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Tony Alamo’s twitter

God is the authority and knows everything that has happened from the beginning of the world and before, and all throughout the Bible to the end. He has written nothing of “Global Warming.” There is nothing predicting that.


18 posted on 11/13/2009 1:49:00 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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This man was a thorn in Nashville’s side for many years. He had a house where all his “people” lived and worked. They made gaudy jackets for many country stars, and when they weren’t gluing glitter they would paper your windshield with their idiotic beliefs. I can’t tell you how many times I pulled off one of their “tracts” and threw it straight in the trash.

If I am not mistaken, I believe he had his wife’s coffin in his house for many years.... but I wouldn’t swear to the accuracy of that in court.


19 posted on 11/13/2009 1:59:00 PM PST by Grammy (The Lord is the Alpha and Omega. ObamaA has it backwards.)
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20 posted on 11/13/2009 2:07:07 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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