Posted on 07/03/2008 7:24:45 PM PDT by Coleus
The minister of Brentford Free Church has said the "thoughts and prayers" of the church community are with those involved in the case of pastor Andrew Gilroy, who was jailed for child sex offences last Friday. Rev David Beazley said the paedophile pastor of the Syon Mission had been a "colleague and friend".
He said: "We share the sadness of the whole situation, and our hope is that there will now be opportunity for all those directly and indirectly affected to move on."
Gilroy abused his position to befriend teenage boys and invite them to his home for photographic sessions. He paid them up to £40 a session and by the time police caught up with Gilroy, he had more than 3,000 indecent images of boys aged 16 and 17, prosecutor Peter Lancaster told Isleworth Crown Court.
Bearded, bespectacled and bald, Gilroy admitted 13 charges - four of paying for the sexual services of a child, four of taking indecent photographs of a child, three of making indecent photographs, one of distributing them on the internet and one of possessing 3,471 indecent images of children between January 2006 and his arrest seven months later.
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He was found to have about 1,500 images at level one (the lowest in seriousness), nearly 2,000 at level two and 83 at level four. Level five is the most serious. Two other boys of a similar age were pictured.
(Excerpt) Read more at epsomguardian.co.uk ...
Yes.....every man's friend.
Notice that the Guardian uses the PC word "paedophile," when either "ephebophile" or "pederast" would be more correct.
The man is a youth-worshipping homosexual, which is a different critter than a "paedophile."
But of course the Guardian must conceal the truth here, and so they do ..... lightly .... and with a single, well-chosen word.
Why not put pedophile priests in once in a while? Oh, I guess they’re just pushed under the rug. At least the protty’s prosecute most of their sinful pastors.
Agreed. There's NEVER been an article posted on FR about the priest scandals in the Catholic Church, no Catholic priest pedophile has EVER gone to prison, or been prosecuted.
/extreme dripping sarcasm
Feigned ignorance by some protestants of the vast coverage of the Catholic ephebephile sex scandals here on FR is very unbecoming to the protestants. But it shouldn't fool anyone, and lamely trying to turn the focus to Catholics when the criminals are PROTESTANT. About time the protestants excoriated their own, for a change.
MAMBLA wants this creep appointed to a Scoutmaster.
Protestants aren’t happy about any child being molested, but most of the protestant pastors are prosecuted, not moved from church to church. Coleus isn’t fooling anyone by posting all s/he can find regarding protestant pedophiles.
Are you nuts? The Catholic priests have been reported on this site as long as I can remember. The only difference is when it involves the Catholics there are 70, 80, 300 or so responses filled with hate. These people seem awful quiet when it isn’t a Catholic priest that is reported.
Many of the articles posted have discussed how the pastors are out on bail, or molested children over YEARS, or had multiple victims, or are STILL ON THE CHURCH REGISTRY AS PASTORS AVAILABLE FOR ASSIGNMENT, even after being convicted.
So, I don’t think Coleus is trying to fool anyone. Aside from that being “mind reading” (which is against open thread rules, BTW) I think some protestants are fooling themselves that somehow they are better than Catholics in this regard.
I can just imagine what protestants would say about an accused priest being allowed to continue his work while being investigated—and I would agree. But it doesn’t seem to stop protestants from screaming that the pastors are innocent until proven guilty, now, does it?
Coleus (sic) is the non Catholic Pastors counter balance.
IOW It happens and the choice of ones Religion does not make it immune from human nature as perverted or not as it can be.
I think it rather silly to attribute ones faith in God to there being human screw ups.
Richard Gere was a total Buddha Boy but had some booty perversion sins with Gerbils.
Oh by the way this is my own opine not speaking for either freeper in the battle of which religion has more perverts or not war.
I'm sorry to say that I think the pope did exactly the same thing during his last visit to the United States. He specifically condemned American pedophile priests, but not the homosexual, pederast priests who perpetrated the vast majority of the abuse.
This pastor is not a pedophile. The boys were post-pubescent.
But of course this article is not about the Pope. This article is about a Protestant.
Changing the subject off the Syon Mission Chuch because Protestants can’t face their own scandals?
It amazes me how many protestants come onto these threads and immediately talk about Catholics. Why can’t Protestants deal with it? What weaknesses do they have, that encourage these epebephiles to search for victims among the sola scriptura/sola fide crowd? I think it’s the Protestant focus on emotionalism in their services, their weekly “fix” of yelling “amen!” and singing at the top of their lungs, weeping and clapping.
All that emotionalism is very intoxicating....
Save your anti-Protestant bigotry for a Protestant.
Actually, the article is about a protestant pederast/ephebephile. I find it interesting that so many protestants are in denial about the existence of the problem in protestant churches. If you find that dull of me, oh well.
What FReeper is that? Which threads are those? I've looked all over the articles listed under the Religion Forum, and I can't find anything that resembles what you're describing. Certainly nothing to the tune of 5-15 articles a day.
I would certainly encourage anyone who finds any news stories about Catholic priests engaging in sexual sin to post them.
I know Catholics will be on it if there are any new instances revealed, especially if they are not handled through the law.
It is time to bring all this filth out in the open so that it can be battled in the light instead of growing in the dark.
I don’t care if it is a thousand posts a day if it makes people aware and less likely to be victims or raise victims.
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I would discourage keeping score on this. It's a terrible axe to grind and a sad body count. Whoever wants to tangle about denominations, go right ahead. But if the first thing that crosses your mind when you read of sex abuse by clergy is "Whose side was it on?", then we all need to think more about praying.
When the Freeper that does that goes on his binge I will ping you.
I cant think of the screenname off hand.
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