You two are real pieces of work.
After all of the Jim Bakers and Swaggarts .... the endless parade of TV evangalists who extol the virtues of Christianity but are personally bankrupt of those virtues.
To somehow point out one pervert who happened to make it through the LDS missionary program and try to smear the 60,000 god-fearing beautiful young men and women preaching the word of Christ.
You both are exemplify the hypocrites in Christ’s warnings who will swallow a camel while straining at a gnat.
I said how sad for the child.
Are you so full of loathing for anyone who mentions anything about your feelings, that you dismiss the child?
I will repeat what I said - how sad for the child.
I stand firm on my statement. How sad for the child.
#1...I didn't know that you regarded child rape as comparative to "swallow[ing] a camel while straining at a gnat."
Surely this is of greater import than mere gnat-straining? Please tell me you didn't just reduce the violence done to this child to that?
#2 If news sources publishing this story are "straining gnats" & "swallowing camels" ... then what are you doing in highlighting Christian TV hosts from the 1980s? (Out of all the Christian TV hosts?)
Is news just slow in coming to you? Is Jim Baker's exploits -- along with Jimmy Swaggart's -- somehow "breaking news" to you?
Actually, teppe, Free Republic is an equal opportunity site when it comes to pointing out sexual illegalities of any denominational stripe. I've been here a long time, and there have been articles denouncing inappropriate behavior from all kinds of denominations.
There is a zero toleration climate here on FR. It leads to occasional denominational squabbles, but the bottom line is always whether the problem actually happened.
Now, let's say that Cordero is 20 now and the girl is 16 now. That means he was 18 and she was 14 at the time this began.
"He was a senior in high school and she was a freshman in high school when this began" is the proper defense of this young man. Since his family is strangely calling the rape charges "inaccurate", I would think that we're dealing with a statuatory offense based on an upper classman/freshman relationship.
My time as an Army Chaplain served me well so far as getting to know those far too young men that Mormons call "elders". They are no more "elders" than an 80 year old is a "younger".
“smear the 60,000 god-fearing beautiful young men and women preaching the word of Christ.”
Ha! Oh teppe. Christ didn’t teach any of the hogwash these cultists teach. Please don’t abuse His name like that.