Posted on 06/01/2022 11:54:56 PM PDT by Morgana
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - One week after a Warsaw pastor is accused of sexually assaulting a teenager, protestors are calling on New Life Christian Church in Warsaw to shut down.
“We feel like the church needs to be shut down. We don’t want any counseling for this. We need it shut down because for now, we see them as a parasite to the community prying on children,” Voices Against Injustice activist Zoie Lamar told 16 News Now at a protest outside the church Sunday.
It all comes just seven days after former pastor John Lowe confessed to committing adultery nearly 20 years ago. In a confession before the congregation, Lowe addressed that his “sinful relationship” was indeed with a woman who says she was just 16-year-old at the time.
“I was just 16 when you took my virginity on your office room floor,” a woman who says she was victimized by Lowe told the congregation last week.
One week later, community members lined up to show their support not only for the woman who came forward, “We will not but stand with anybody who stands with pedophiles here in Kosciusko County,” Lamar said.
But folks also stood up for those who haven’t come forward until now.
“With everyone coming to light, I finally had the courage to speak out about this and seek the justice I deserve,” Makaila Whitfield says.
Whitfield says an usher at the church began sexually abusing her as early as five-years-old.
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The whole Church doesn’t need to be shut down. That’s exactly what communists want.
You know that, I know that but videos of the church supporting the pastor, praying around the pastor and not helping and doing the same for the victim make things really hard on the community to support them.
They cut the live feed as the pastor gave his “confession” but people in the church had these things called cell phones which record and uploaded it to youtube. The community does not like what it saw.
Maybe this particular church does. The guy has no seminary training. It is a church he started and built
A wolf in sheeps clothing
Charges have been leveled against his son as well
Not sure it is worthwhile keeping this place open. Let the congregants decide.
A viper’s den
Let the people vote with their feet.
Why?
So one pastor has a sexual issue so we need to destroy the church?
This is BS
Fair enough
“ We need it shut down because for now, we see them as a parasite to the community prying on children,”
That church has become like Disney 🤪
If we shut down every place where sexual abuse took place, we’d have to shut down publik skoolz nationwide.
Come to think of it, that’s not a bad idea...
When the pastor admitted to adultery, the congregation have him a standing ovation. It's not a real church.
Yes - it’s a real church.
No you don’t understand what you’re talking about.
They applauded him for confessing his sins.
He didn’t confess his sin of sexual assault against a child. The women had to tell the church.
You see that right there is why sex abuse continues in the church. people stick their heads up their a$$ and pretend not to see.
You’re aware she was of legal age in the state of Indiana.
It wasn’t statuatory rape.
I’ll also point out that the church didn’t applaud that and asked for him to step down after that.
But I don’t think you really care here and just want to attack the church for your own smug self-righteousness.
I thought it was nonconsensual?
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