Posted on 12/22/2018 7:31:54 PM PST by simpson96
A gay San Francisco pastor, who has historically fought for gay rights in the Lutheran Church, was arrested on charges of possession of child pornography, according to the San Francisco Police Department.
The Reverend Steven Sabin, pastor at Christ Church Lutheran at Quintara Street and 20th Avenue, was arrested November 15 on three felony charges.
Sabin, 59, was arraigned November 21 and pleaded not guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography and two counts of possession or control of child pornography, according to a spokesman for the San Francisco District Attorney's office. Private defense attorney Art Lipton is representing Sabin. Lipton did not respond to a request for comment from the Bay Area Reporter.
According to an SFPD news release, the department's Internet Crimes Against Children Unit began investigating Sabin in the fall after he was found to have been distributing child pornography through an online social media application. On November 15, the police searched Sabin's home on the 1300 block of Market Street.
"Investigators located a cellphone belonging to Sabin, which contained hundreds of child pornography videos and images depicting juvenile minors being sexually abused. During a subsequent search, investigators found that Sabin was storing child pornography on a cloud storage application," read the news release.
The pastor was released on his own recognizance November 16, according to court documents. "There is not sufficient probable cause to detain the defendant," court records stated.
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INCONCEIVABLE!
Shocking ..... not.
No way! Everybody knows homosexuals aren’t pedophiles!
*spit*
Yup.
How long will it be before America realizes that homosexuality is a serious mental illness with devastating consequences for the innocents in our society?
This is yet another example of why I believe Western Civilization is doomed.
Typical.
The homosexuals I’ve had the displeasure of working with viewed a lot of porn.
My experiences may not mirror yours
You mean that Catholic clergy aren’t the only ones! OMG!
Be still Oh heart!
Absolutely; clean, white and innocent as the wind-driven snow. Merry Christmas your most honorable Nullness. May the void have a gift for you.
If only Lutheran pastors were allowed to get married...Oh wait.
He looks a LOT like Frank.
Funny how you take the wide collars and pointy hats off and put them in convicts clothes......... they all look like convicts then.
Obama decided when gay was to be unleashed. He used old white guy Biden to let it loose. This was a major transformation. The left was surprised it worked the way it did as we did nothing. We lost the culture war decades ago.
Agreed.
Too many on our side have given up or been hounded into silence.
Perhaps, if the World is lucky, centuries from now, folks will wonder why Western Civilization decided to commit suicide.
I think you mean, "how long until America remembers...?"
We used to know this.
Hopefully not, but it's an avenue worth pursuing, is it not?
Doesn’t sound like he was a very good Lutheran, or any type of Christian for that matter.
I thought only Catholic priests did this kind of stuff...SARC
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