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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 4:20pm On Dec 05, 2019
Don't feed the trolls.
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 8:23pm On Dec 05, 2019
That's correct I don't do trolls. I disseminate information and that's it.

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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 4:41pm On Dec 07, 2019
Sodomy is worst than White Supremacy
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 10:47pm On Dec 08, 2019
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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Olivegreen(f): 1:03pm On Dec 09, 2019
I think you need a hobby. Make friends, meet up with old friends and family, pray, watch a movie or anything to just make you happy instead of this torture you're putting yourself through. You can't just keep posting homophobic comments all day long or are you not tired?

I don't hate you nor do I want to hurt you I simply want to live my life to the fullest as the happy lesbian that I am.

#loveislove
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Olivegreen(f): 1:10pm On Dec 09, 2019
One more thing..........@Godhatessodomy
Thank you so much for this write-up, you've trully given a lot of LGBT individuals hope now that we know that the church is a "homo-factory" and supports us.

I've always known that God loves me and I've always loved the church but now you've made it even more clear that the myth about "gays being demons or soul devouring creatures " is not true. LGBT individuals are also christians like you and me.
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Olivegreen(f): 1:20pm On Dec 09, 2019
Finally...........
God loves you @Godhatessodomy, God loves me, God loves the lgbt community, God loves Nigeria and all his children in the world.

Have a very merry Christmas and a lovely New Year @Godhatessodomy.
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 1:40pm On Dec 09, 2019
Olivegreen:
Finally...........
God loves you @Godhatessodomy, God loves me, God loves the lgbt community, God loves Nigeria and all his children in the world.

Have a very merry Christmas and a lovely New Year @Godhatessodomy.



If sodomy was permissible by Allah then He wouldn't curse bloodlines generations after generations with pestilence, war and famine. Sodomy is the cause of many civilizations to fall.

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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 9:50pm On Dec 09, 2019
Church Gay Mafia

Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 1:27am On Dec 10, 2019
Truth is powerful and indisputable
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 1:33pm On Dec 10, 2019
Sodomy the worst of evils
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 4:03pm On Dec 10, 2019
Church Is A Homo Factory
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 6:02pm On Dec 10, 2019
Abuse of Faith20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms

By Robert Downen, Lise Olsen, and John Tedesco

Multimedia by Jon Shapley

This collection of mug shots includes a portion of the 218 people who, since 1998, worked or volunteered in Southern Baptist churches and were convicted of or pleaded guilty to sex crimes.

Published Feb. 10, 2019

First of six parts

Thirty-five years later, Debbie Vasquez's voice trembled as she described her trauma to a group of Southern Baptist leaders.

She was 14, she said, when she was first molested by her pastor in Sanger, a tiny prairie town an hour north of Dallas. It was the first of many assaults that Vasquez said destroyed her teenage years and, at 18, left her pregnant by the Southern Baptist pastor, a married man more than a dozen years older.

In June 2008, she paid her way to Indianapolis, where she and others asked leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention and its 47,000 churches to track sexual predators and take action against congregations that harbored or concealed abusers. Vasquez, by then in her 40s, implored them to consider prevention policies like those adopted by faiths that include the Catholic Church.

In this 2007 file photo, Debbie Vasquez holds a photo of herself at age 14, when she says she was first molested by the pastor of her church in Sanger, about one hour north of Dallas. (Donna McWilliam/Associated Press)

"Listen to what God has to say," she said, according to audio of the meeting, which she recorded. "... All that evil needs is for good to do nothing. ... Please help me and others that will be hurt."

Days later, Southern Baptist leaders rejected nearly every proposed reform.

The abusers haven't stopped. They've hurt hundreds more.

Prosecutors, convicted pastors discuss sexual assault.

 

In the decade since Vasquez's appeal for help, more than 250 people who worked or volunteered in Southern Baptist churches have been charged with sex crimes, an investigation by the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News reveals.

It's not just a recent problem: In all, since 1998, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct, the newspapers found. That includes those who were convicted, credibly accused and successfully sued, and those who confessed or resigned. More of them worked in Texas than in any other state.

They left behind more than 700 victims, many of them shunned by their churches, left to themselves to rebuild their lives. Some were urged to forgive their abusers or to get abortions.

About 220 offenders have been convicted or took plea deals, and dozens of cases are pending. They were pastors. Ministers. Youth pastors. Sunday school teachers. Deacons. Church volunteers.

HOW WE DID THIS STORY:

Current as of June 2019

In 2007, victims of sexual abuse by Southern Baptist pastors requested creation of a registry containing the names of current and former leaders of Southern Baptist churches who had been convicted of sex crimes or who had been credibly accused. That didn't happen; the last time any such list was made public was by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. It contained the names of eight sex criminals.

In 2018, as advocates again pressed SBC officials for such a registry, Houston Chronicle reporters began to search news archives, websites and databases nationwide to compile an archive of allegations of sexual abuse, sexual assault and other serious misconduct involving Southern Baptist pastors and other church officials. We found complaints made against hundreds of pastors, church officials and volunteers at Southern Baptist churches nationwide.

We focused our search on the 10 years preceding the victims' first call for a registry and on the 10-plus years since. And we concentrated on individuals who had a documented connection to a church listed in an SBC directory published by a state or national association.

We verified details in hundreds of accounts of abuse by examining federal and state court databases, prison records and official documents from more than 20 states and by searching sex offender registries nationwide. In Texas, we visited more than a dozen county courthouses. We interviewed district attorneys and police in more than 40 Texas counties. We filed dozens of public records requests in Texas and nationwide.

Ultimately, we compiled information on roughly 400 credibly accused officials in Southern Baptist churches, including pastors, deacons, Sunday school teachers and volunteers.

We verified that about 260 had been convicted of sex crimes or received deferred prosecutions in plea deals and sent letters to all of them soliciting their responses to summaries we compiled. We received written responses from more than 30 and interviewed three in Texas prisons.

Find our records that relate to those convicted or forced to register as sex offenders at HoustonChronicle.com/AbuseofFaith.

Nearly 100 are still held in prisons stretching from Sacramento County, Calif., to Hillsborough County, Fla., state and federal records show. Scores of others cut deals and served no time. More than 100 are registered sex offenders. Some still work in Southern Baptist churches today.

Journalists in the two newsrooms spent more than six months reviewing thousands of pages of court, prison and police records and conducting hundreds of interviews. They built a database of former leaders in Southern Baptist churches who have been convicted of sex crimes.

The investigation reveals that:

• At least 35 church pastors, employees and volunteers who exhibited predatory behavior were still able to find jobs at churches during the past two decades. In some cases, church leaders apparently failed to alert law enforcement about complaints or to warn other congregations about allegations of misconduct.

• Several past presidents and prominent leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention are among those criticized by victims for concealing or mishandling abuse complaints within their own churches or seminaries.

• Some registered sex offenders returned to the pulpit. Others remain there, including a Houston preacher who sexually assaulted a teenager and now is the principal officer of a Houston nonprofit that works with student organizations, federal records show. Its name: Touching the Future Today Inc.

• Many of the victims were adolescents who were molested, sent explicit photos or texts, exposed to pornography, photographed nude, or repeatedly raped by youth pastors. Some victims as young as 3 were molested or raped inside pastors' studies and Sunday school classrooms. A few were adults — women and men who sought pastoral guidance and instead say they were seduced or sexually assaulted.

Heather Schneider was 14 when she was molested in a choir room at Houston's Second Baptist Church, according to criminal and civil court records. Her mother, Gwen Casados, said church leaders waited months to fire the attacker, who later pleaded no contest. In response to her lawsuit, church leaders also denied responsibility.

Schneider slit her wrists the day after that attack in 1994, Casados said. She survived, but she died 14 years later from a drug overdose that her mother blames on the trauma.

"I never got her back," Casados said.

Others took decades to come forward, and only after their lives had unraveled. David Pittman was 12, he says, when a youth minister from his Georgia church first molested him in 1981. Two other former members of the man's churches said in interviews that they also were abused by him. But by the time Pittman spoke out in 2006, it was too late to press criminal charges.

The minister still works at an SBC church.

Pittman won't soon forgive those who have offered prayers but taken no action. He only recently stopped hating God.

"That is the greatest tragedy of all," he said. "So many people's faith is murdered. I mean, their faith is slaughtered by these predators."

August "Augie" Boto, interim president of the SBC's Executive Committee, helped draft the rejection of reform proposals in 2008. In an interview, he expressed "sorrow" about some of the newspapers' findings but said the convention's leadership can do only so much to stop sexual abuses.

"It would be sorrow if it were 200 or 600" cases, Boto said. "Sorrow. What we're talking about is criminal. The fact that criminal activity occurs in a church context is always the basis of grief. But it's going to happen. And that statement does not mean that we must be resigned to it."

Gwen Casados, mother of Heather Schneider, says her daughter’s life was ruined by a pageant director at Houston’s Second Baptist Church.



'A porous sieve'

At the core of Southern Baptist doctrine is local church autonomy, the idea that each church is independent and self-governing. It's one of the main reasons that Boto said most of the proposals a decade ago were viewed as flawed by the executive committee because the committee doesn't have the authority to force churches to report sexual abuse to a central registry.

Because of that, Boto said, the committee "realized that lifting up a model that could not be enforced was an exercise in futility," and so instead drafted a report that "accepted the existence of the problem rather than attempting to define its magnitude."

Q&A: Investigation into sexual abuse 'shining the light of day upon crime,' Southern Baptist leader says

SBC churches and organizations share resources and materials, and together they fund missionary trips and seminaries. Most pastors are ordained locally after they've convinced a small group of church elders that they've been called to service by God. There is no central database that tracks ordinations, or sexual abuse convictions or allegations.

All of that makes Southern Baptist churches highly susceptible to predators,says Christa Brown, an activist who wrote a book about being molested as a child by a pastor at her SBC church in Farmers Branch, a Dallas suburb.

"It's a perfect profession for a con artist, because all he has to do is talk a good talk and convince people that he's been called by God, and bingo, he gets to be a Southern Baptist minister," said Brown, who lives in Colorado. "Then he can infiltrate the entirety of the SBC, move from church to church, from state to state, go to bigger churches and more prominent churches where he has more influence and power, and it all starts in some small church.

"It's a porous sieve of a denomination."

To try to measure the problem, the newspapers collected and cross-checked news reports, prison records, court records, sex offender registries and other documents. Reporters also conducted hundreds of interviews with victims, church leaders, investigators and offenders.

‘So many people’s faith is murdered. I mean, their faith is slaughtered by these predators.’

David Pittman, who says he was molested by his youth minister

Several factors make it likely that the abuse is even more widespread than can be documented: Victims of sexual assault come forward at a low rate; many cases in churches are handled internally; and many Southern Baptist churches are in rural communities where media coverage is sparse.

It's clear, however, that SBC leaders have long been aware of the problem. Bowing to pressure from activists, the Baptist General Convention of Texas, one of the largest SBC state organizations, in 2007 published a list of eight sex offenders who had served in Southern Baptist churches in Texas.

EXPLAINER: What is the Southern Baptist Convention?

Around the same time, the Rev. Thomas Doyle wrote to SBC leaders, imploring them to act. A priest and former high-ranking lawyer for the Catholic Church, Doyle in the 1980s was one of the earliest to blow the whistle on child sexual abuse in the church. But Catholic leaders "lied about it ... covered it up and ignored the victims," said Doyle, now retired and living in northern Virginia.

Doyle turned to activism because of his experiences, work that brought him closer to those abused in Southern Baptist churches. Their stories — and how the SBC handled them — felt hauntingly familiar, he said.

"I saw the same type of behavior going on with the Southern Baptists," he said.






700 hundred victims of predator Baptist pastors.


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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 6:26pm On Dec 10, 2019
Sodomy is worst than White Supremacy
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 7:07pm On Dec 10, 2019
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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 12:49pm On Dec 11, 2019
The Church Is A Homo Factory
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 4:22pm On Dec 11, 2019
In China, they're closing churches, jailing pastors -- and even rewriting scripture.



I love what the Chinese are doing its protecting their noble civilization from being mixed with the perverted West. The Russians did this same thing centuries ago when they put their churches under Russian control. Rome is controlling many countries through missionaries, dispatched clergy who answer to the government of Rome. They bring pedophile priests into your country who have escaped justice in other countries where they have raped hundreds of children.


Scriptures are written in favor of Roman patriotism because Rome was a state and empire. Those who fail to understand this risk their people becoming loyal to a foreign power that has always sought Empire expansion, subjugation and fascism.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rdSKGP4wlE

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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 10:01pm On Dec 11, 2019
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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 11:10pm On Dec 11, 2019
China is creating more billionaires than anywhere in the Earth because they are putting faith in themselves and their ancestors. It is as simple as that. And the Chinese are banning satanic Western European culture which was invited in centuries ago and nearly caused the extinction of the Chinese until the great general godlike president Mao Tse Tung stood up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Qils4J284


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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 1:21am On Dec 12, 2019
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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 1:28pm On Dec 12, 2019
Misplaced Faith
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 7:06pm On Dec 12, 2019
Sodomy is worst than White Supremacy
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 8:08pm On Dec 12, 2019
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/584311/


So they reporting that Russians are persecuting Jehovah Witnesses who are United States Christians when in actuality they are protecting their society from religious predators. Yes Western Europeans are pedophiles and perverts this includes their mulatto classes of Blacks, Asians and Hispanics. As like the Catholic Church the Jehovah Witnesses will knowingly send pedophile clegy into your country endangering your children.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/584311/


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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 10:57pm On Dec 12, 2019
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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 12:25am On Dec 13, 2019
Sodomy the worst of evils
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 3:34am On Dec 13, 2019
Thank God for Pres. Xi for burning them down and blowing them up.
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 3:33pm On Dec 13, 2019
Russia banns them and China banns them so you know it's not White Supremacy yet a sense of enough is enough with the spiritual corruption.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Nlnw1vlKQ
Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 3:59pm On Dec 13, 2019
Greetings


The Russians are a different bloodline from the Western European Whites. We can not judge people by skin color which is something the West pushed around the world skin tone racism. The Russians are predominantly type B positive blood and they don't like sodomy. Western Europeans are mostly A type blood with a high concentration of RH negative blood type. These two types are the main sodomites and pedophiles on the planet because their bloodline goes back to the satanic pederast Greco Romans. The Greco Romans were a culture of satanic worshipers and enslavers. People resisted them in ancient times in Russia and China when they tried to invade. Know the history of Peoples of the Earth.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ltG3y4tTk4


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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 4:49pm On Dec 13, 2019
Greetings


Where ever you find sodomites you would find devil worshippers people who conjure up evil spirits to assist them with criminal enterprise. This is recorded all through the Bible and Quran that some men inspired by evil priests would form cults to control state and the people. Most organized criminal mafias are evil priesthoods with the rule being they must partake in anal sodomy to please the demon spirits worshipped by the cult. Trust me at the hidden level they are only lying when they say they do anal sodomy because they love each other, no this is apart of their evil religion and rebellion against Allah and His divine laws which govern man and both holy books state so.


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Re: For Millenieum The Church Has Been A Homo Factory by Godhatesodomy: 8:22pm On Dec 13, 2019
Truth is powerful and indisputable

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