Again, not a drag queen.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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It's always the ones you most expect. And it's always projection.
That is disgusting. This kind of presidential behavior should not be tolerated.
He became a pastor at another Santa Ana church after the assaults.
unadulterated rage
Everyone go watch the Philip Seymour Hoffman & Meryl Streep movie Doubt to see just how systemically fucked organized religion is.
While I agree, it isn't just religion. Seems any organization that gets past a certain size goes the route of protecting its "leadership" over others. But religion is a great example of it.
Also one of the oldest examples I know of, it was one of the many complaints that were part of Martin Luther's thesis. That's just the most concrete one I know about, there are less solid ones going back as early as the 700s.
Though it doesn't say the church knew anything about the assualt. Could be ragebait since we know churches have shuffled people to protect them before.
Wonder if anyone has ever done a study on the correlation between “faith leader,” and “child molester.”
They often try to position themselves in places of influence and trust.
I imagine faith leader in a smaller community is a role that usually does carry a lot of trust, but might have lower barriers to entry and less scrutiny than say, schoolteachers or other perceived "trustworthy" roles in society.
Roles that parents say kids should respect and listen to, that sorta thing.
Pedophilia is, at its core, about the abuse of power dynamics. It manifests sexually because the taboo nature in which our society regards sex provides specific types of vulnerabilities in that power dynamic, particularly in the sexually immature.
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If a person has their hand on a Bible, the other hand is on a child’s crotch
Why is a 4 year old alone with the pastor? Why was he driving another girl home from church.
It feels more like he was a family friend as well as a pastor. Probably babysitting and such. While I have no love for organized religion, nor believe there is any reason to trust a padtor more than any other person. The pastor thing may not be as relevant as it is being made out to be here. Still relevant, but I don't think it is necessarily what gave him access to these girls.
I don’t know about this one, but lots of predators get to know the family to be trusted and then gain access.