[Campion]

Wow, yeah, Slate is certainly an objective source.

It's hilarious how trusting certain FReepers get of the secular left when they can join it in an attack on the Catholic church.

Don't you understand that you're next?

[trisham]

Wow, yeah, Slate is certainly an objective source. It's hilarious how trusting certain FReepers get of the secular left when they can join it in an attack on the Catholic church.

Don't you understand that you're next?

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Exactly right.

[Mr Rogers]

What is appalling is that Christopher Hitchens can publish an article in Slate that is truer to the demands of the Gospel than the Pope & the defenders of the Catholic Church!

[Mr Rogers]

“Don’t you understand that you’re next?”

If Slate has any evidence at all of sexual abuse by members of a church I’m a member of, I’m willing to be next.

Jimmy Swaggart was rightly thrown out of the Assemblies of God for less:

“On February 21, 1988, without giving any details regarding his transgressions, Swaggart gave his now infamous “I Have Sinned” speech as he tearfully spoke to his family, congregation and audience, saying, “I have sinned against you, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God’s forgiveness.”[3] On a New Orleans morning news show four days later, Murphree stated that while Swaggart was a regular customer, they had never engaged in sexual intercourse.[4] The clip of Swaggart’s confession was played repeatedly on news and tabloid television programs.

The Louisiana presbytery of the Assemblies of God initially suspended Jimmy Swaggart from the ministry for three months. The national presbytery of the Assemblies of God soon extended the suspension to their standard two-year suspension for sexual immorality. His return to the pulpit coincided with the end of a three-month suspension originally ordered by the Assemblies. Believing that Swaggart was not genuinely repentant in not submitting to their authority, the hierarchy of the Assemblies of God immediately defrocked Swaggart, removing his credentials and ministerial license. It was then that Swaggart decided he would be an independent, non-denominational Pentecostal minister and the Family Worship Center would become non-denominational.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Swaggart#1988_scandal_-_Swaggart.27s_confession_and_fallout