Posted on 12/14/2002 8:20:01 AM PST by chance33_98
Sunday School Teacher Arrested on Molestation Charges
Sacramento police have arrested a 36-year-old Sunday school teacher on charges of molesting a 12-year-old boy.
Christopher Todd Hettiger was a church elder and taught Sunday school for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on Rio Tierra Avenue in south Natomas.
Hettiger apparently met the boy and his mother through the church and hired the woman as a housekeeper. The boy attended Hettinger's Sunday school class and stayed overnight at Hettiger’s home on several occasions.
According to police, the case broke when the boy no longer wanted to visit Hettiger. When his mother asked why, he revealed the alleged molested, which had been going on for more than a year.
Hettiger also worked in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program four years ago. His many contacts with young people have raised suspicions that there might be additional victims.
According to investigators, Hettinger has no criminal record. He is self-employed, working out of his house as a computer consultant.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call (916) 443-HELP.
Drat it! I knew someone was going to post that: "Hey Sam, you need to spend some time on the range!"
I was just making sure it was centered. I leave the final adjustment before placing your finger inside the trigger guard up to you.
Personally, I think my shot is just as fatal...it just allows him to suffer for juuust a bit longer.
Glad I could help. ;-) I would imagine both shots are fatal...
I've often muttered out loud the same things you have about taking my own revenge - that's how I was raised. I pray I have the strength to let it go if ever in that situation. I cannot condone taking the law into my own hands but some of use may occasionally think about it.
This kind of trying to keep the flame going is not of the Lord Jesus Christ, So your lips Wrigley might profess him, but your Heart does NOT know Him!
You should be preparing yourself to find a wife and have a family! Here it is another Christmas and no little pedder padders, or packages under the Tress, another year has pass void of family memories!
Thank you for that, I at least try to mean well, yet I'd be the first to admit it's easy to get caught up in the wrong attitude. I've put a lot of study into my Bible and like to think I know it well. Still no matter how much I know or learn about it, there's always more, so much more.
I'm not looking for any further comments from you, I'd just like you to think about the questions below. The questions are to stimulate thought - that is all.
I'm a spiritually born Christian. When I say I'm a spiritually born Christian it's just another way of saying born again. I believe Jesus is God's one and only Son, that he died on the cross for my sins and rose again on the third day. I am filled with the Holy Spirit but I do not speak in tongues as some might believe with that statement.
I attend a non denominational church although I haven't always attended non denominational churches. No matter what church I attended, I was always encouraged to read whatever I wanted and could debate or question anything I didn't understand. Such behavior was encouraged. That's what's it should be like no matter what organization we belong to, otherwise we may be vulnerable to false religions or cults.
Let me know if you ever have any questions, need some encouragement or prayer.
John 14:
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
And I hear now if one is still alive 10 years from now, people could be living to a hundred and twenty years!
had NOT interest in the TRUTH or RESPECT for Another FAITH.
The issue here is not one of disrespect. It is a larger issue than you or the Mormon church. It is a question of what is God's Truth. All human beings are entitled to a search for truth. Jesus said so. Brigham Young and Orson Pratt even encouraged a critical examination of Mormonism by their own words.
You have not disputed anything that scripter outline in the chart on post #73. There is no "Clintonian Spin" of that--it is a chart, displaying two clear (and conflicting) theologies. There is no fairer terms of debate foundation--you may address them, but attacking the messenger or saying this website or that is twisted without addressing a clear comparative examination of the inconsistencies between the Bible and the Book of Mormon is sophistry.
As to your treatment of Wrigley, that lessened you greatly in my eyes.
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Here's a little reading for you...
Todd Compton In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
from the publisher:
Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that of two young sisters, one of whom was discovered by Joseph's first wife, Emma, in a locked bedroom with the prophet. Emma remained a steadfast opponent of polygamy throughout her life. The majority of Smith's wives were younger than he, and one-third were between fourteen and twenty years of age. Another third were already married, and some of the husbands served as witnesses at their own wife's polyandrous wedding. In addition, some of the wives hinted that they bore Smith children--most notably Sylvia Sessions's daughter Josephine--although the children carried their stepfather's surname.
For all of Smith's wives, the experience of being secretly married was socially isolating, emotionally draining, and sexually frustrating. Despite the spiritual and temporal benefits, which they acknowledged, they found their faith tested to the limit of its endurance. After Smith's death in 1844, their lives became even more "lonely and desolate." One even joined a convent. The majority were appropriated by Smith's successors, based on the Old Testament law of the Levirate, and had children by them, though they considered these guardianships unsatisfying. Others stayed in the Midwest and remarried, while one moved to California. But all considered their lives unhappy, except for the joy they found in their children and grandchildren.
Todd Compton, Ph.D., classics, UCLA, is the editor of Hugh Nibley's Mormonism and Early Christianity, a contributor to The Encyclopedia of Mormonism and Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism, and has been published in the American Journal of Philology, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Classical Quarterly, and the Journal of Popular Culture, among others.
You ridicule wrigley and yet place your trust in a serial abuser of women. That's sick.
me too.....not that my father was super macho because he wasn't....but you always knew where you stood with him and we always felt his love and caring....our needs were always before his....and did I mention he was in WW2 ?.... anyway...times are so differant....
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Excuse me the LSD are not the one disrespecting and bashing other religions here! We enjoy exchanging and sharing. What you folks are doing is a witch hunt!
I am not going to rehash the regurgitate! Been there done that! You been a memeber since 98 so you must have seen the months of trashing the LDS and you could have jumped in at the time!
As to your treatment of Wrigley, that lessened you greatly in my eyes.
Oh please! I was already lessen in your eyes! I asure you s far as wrigley goes nothing was said that was not talked about by him in the pass. Because I try to motivate him for the New Year, you think I told him to rob a bank!
Fine another caused, feed the homeless, visit the sick and infirm, teach someone to read etc.
2 Cor.12
20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
The Lord would like Us NOT to Content, and to "Love One Another"!
Part of the problem here is that when you say the Lord it means something very, very different than when Wrigley, Skypilot, myself and others say it.
In post 92 you said:
I am delighted with your love of the Lord...But that doesn't mean anything. Why? I hate to say this but, we really have nothing in common spiritually because my God is the God of the Bible who has always been and will always be the one true God; and Jesus is God's one and only Son. That's not true for you, so when you say things like the Lord it just kinda sits there for me and grieves my spirit because I know we're not talking about the same thing. And that's the whole problem. That's what we're all trying to get through to you.
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