Posted on 03/07/2019 10:49:59 AM PST by Gamecock
S.C. Pastor Preaches 'Sex in the Church'
Megachurch daycare volunteer caught on video molesting a three-year-old boy 'sexually assaulted...
Perry Noble removed as pastor at NewSpring for personal behavior related to alcohol
And my favorite: Noble rescinds the Ten Commandments for 2015
Betcha’ the average school district has an even higher percentage of child molesters on staff.
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They make a beeline for anywhere young families and young children congregate. It’s a magnet for them.
This church has had so many scandals, I just don’t understand why people still go to this place.
Willie Sutton - “I rob banks because that’s where the money is.”
Pedos are the new heirs of Willie Sutton.
Why did you get a job at a church?
Because thats where the little boys are.
Probably ... Note that it's all homosexual in nature, as well.
Rule One: NO POOFTERS!
For well over a decade, all church programs I have been affiliated with have a rule that no single adult will be in any room with any child.
This is just common sense.
“Rule Four: now listen clear, I don’t want to catch anybody not drinking!”
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Must be because of that celibacy rule
On the one hand, it is so easy for children and parents to come forward with false allegations hoping they can leverage it into a settlement. On the other hand, when someone volunteers to help out with children’s ministry, it seems almost rude to pick through them like they are a pedophile.
I agree that a “two adult mandatory” policy combined with video cameras is essential. Your odds of a non-pedo improves if the staff/volunteers are women but not entirely. Pretty soon churches are going to need liability insurance as badly as doctors.
In my church it’s almost impossible to get anyone to do children’s Sunday school. No men volunteer. I can’t say I blame them in today’s moral climate.
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In churches in my Catholic diocese, we need to have several state background checks (consistent with PA state law for volunteers of any sort who have direct contact with children) and several other trainings/clearances.
EVERYONE GETS THEM. Employees? Yes, as a condition for employment. Sunday school teachers? Definitely. Youth ministry? Yep. People who read the Scripture lessons and serve as ushers for Mass? Them too. The ladies who make pierogis as a fundraiser? Even them, and they have become the platonic form of “’Everyone needs to get clearances’ means EVERYONE.”
I don’t volunteer for that either (I’m a man) although I did teach Sunday School for 2nd and 3rd graders back in the 1980s.
I’ll never forget the time I halted a lesson because I felt something on my ankle. I lifted my pant leg and noticed a flea. I plucked it off my leg and said,
“Children, you’re in for an instant Bible verse lesson. The Bible says the wages of sin is death and this flea has just sinned against me.”
With that, I crushed the little bug between my thumb and a fingernail.
I’ve taught 1st, 4th, 6th-8th grade and a combined HS class (9th-12th). I’ve always marveled that no one questioned my background, faith or knowledge. I’m a mother with one child and maybe they figured that I was safe (which I was!) They were just glad an adult volunteered. I like your flea lesson.
Their itching ears get scratched.
We would include the Sunday School workers, employees and officers (Elders, the closest RC equivalent being the permanent Deacons) and Deacons (which again the permanent deacons being the closest RC equivalent but probably a step below in both training and duties to the RC office) but not the ushers unless they fall under one of the other categories and collaterally serve as ushers.
No congregation, no matter what the precautions, is immune; What is important is taking all possible precautions, enforcing the rules for everyone, and most importantly, as we've seen from what has happened most notably with the Catholics, don't try to cover up or brush under the rug when something does happen.
For the record, I can come up with scandals linked to Baptist, Presbyterian, and Hare Krishnas in the Dallas area (and, of course, RC) without having to expend any effort. Now, the only scandals I can think of with regard to the Methodists in Dallas and in Fort Worth have involved adult women.
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