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.
“Protestant churches are poor, have no central authority to sue.”
That sounds like the early church model, but what does it have to do with the constant reminder that Protestants sin? The world knows that as do other Protestants I imagine, and they are just as ashamed and horrified as Catholics are of the sins of other Catholics.
How does any of this advance the Kingdom? It is like kids yelling “but you did it first”.
Please ask that of the protestants first. When the literally hundreds of articles condemning the Catholic priests were being posted, many of them were happy to blame anything except tha fact that all humans sin, even they.
I’d like to see one protestant apologize for THEIR hubris. Which continues.
Oh, I forgot to note . . .
as I posted that, I wondered which RC would be eagerly first in line with such an attitude and stance.
Sorry, but I’m fresh out of door prizes.
In Protestant churches all charges are made public and the pastor is removed from the pulpit.
In the RCC accusations are shrouded in distrust of the accuser and denial of the transgressions while the priest is thoroughly protected, often being permitted to continue his sexual assault for decades in other parishes under the guise of the cloth.
Watch the recent, AA-winning documentary now on DVD, "Deliver Us From Evil."
Good points.
Won’t be watching such stuff.
Just reading the threat titles is enough to . . . beome ill over.
You brought it up.
If you had actually read the threads and original articles, you would know that isn't true. And no, I am not going to look them up for you. The instances are fully discoverable for anyone searching for actual truth about protestant clergy sex abusers, but will no doubt remain a mystery to those in denial.
Surely God will judge these so-called “ministers” more harshly than other sinners. This also goes for so-called “ministers” that preach that abortion and homosexuality is ok.
Excellent. Were it otherwise, there would be good reason to doubt the humanity of the reader.
Yes, like the PCUSA.
I’m certain that such a doubt
would be an incredibly
new
phenomena—totally uncommon for any of the caustic folks on FR.
However, it must be proven he is guilty. False accusations are common.
Nothing looks much
feebler
than failed wit.
“False accusations are common.”
I have never seen a protestant say that about any of the accused Catholic priests, even when the accusations were proven to be false.
Any protestant is free to show me that I err, with a link.
“I’d like to see one protestant apologize for THEIR hubris.”
And then what?
First, let’s just see it. We can deal with the loud hosannas from the angelic choir later, should such an extremely unlikely event occur.
“Failed wit” is obviously like most things hereon
in the eye of the beholder . . . and probably at least sometimes, in the heart of the beholder.
Over the years, I’ve seen Prottys apologize hereon many, many times.
I may have apologized more than any though I may have had more need to! LOL.
I’ve rarely seen others apologize . . . and some groups, extremely rarely to virtually never . . . and some individuals . . .
For their hubris over the clergy sex abuse scandals? Never.
I may have apologized more than any though I may have had more need to! LOL.
Not for hubris over the clergy sex abuse scandals. Never.
Changing the subject does not make your point.
You are being too defensive. My statement was very broad and encompasses all accusations. It did not even necessarily have anything to do with religion. False accusations are common. Period. No one should jump to conclusions.
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