“”We’re firm believers in the Bible, so if God’s forgiven you, then we’re in no position to treat you otherwise,” Bratcher said.”
This leaves me almost speechless. What about their duty to protect the vulnerable in their church? For crying out loud, a registered sex offender. I’m going to an all day seminar and getting a back ground check so I can work with children at my church.
If they believed he was not guilty of sex with a teenaged boy, as they claim, then what did God need to forgive him for, other than the general run of sins-that-are-not-crimes?