Monday, December 05, 2022

They Say It's Drag Queens But It's Not ...

Oh they march and protest and try to instill fear in people whenever a drag queen reads a story to kids, but … is it the drag queens you should fear, or is it churchgoing men?

Bradley Putnam, a former Oregon pastor, was sentenced to 27 years in prison for sexual abuse of one of his church members while she was underage. He will also have four years of post-prison supervision and has to register as a sex offender.

Timothy Jason Jeltema, student pastor at the Champion Forest Baptist Church in Houston, pleaded guilty to two charges of online solicitation of a minor, one charge of indecency with a child, and one charge of sexual performance by a child and was sentenced to five years … five years? … in state prison.

Benjamin Damron, a youth leader and soccer coach at several Charlotte-area churches, was charged with nine counts of indecent liberties with a child and one count of sexual battery.

Steve Robert Wukmer, a former children’s minister in Alabama, was arrested on 215 counts of possession of child-pornography.

Jeff Taylor, a former youth pastor at a Southern Baptist church in Missouri, pleaded guilty to six child sex abuse-related charges and was sentenced to nine years in prison as part of a plea deal. He was arrested in 2020 after a 19-year-old told a sheriff’s deputy that Taylor had been sexually abusing her since she was 11 years old.

David Keandre’ Dixon, a pastor at Kingdom City Life Empowerment Church in Durham, has been charged with several counts of felony statutory sex offenses involving a child younger than 15 as well as felony indecent liberties with a child.

Rajnal Rehmat, a pastor associate at Dane County sister parishes in DeForest and outside Sun Prairie, Wisconsin has been arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, sexual assault of student by staff, and child enticement.

And so, since this seems to be rampant these days, men of “God” molesting children, one wonders what the churches are doing to stop this. We know the Catholic Church turns a blind eye and moves the rapists from parish to parish, but what about other faiths?

The leadership team of Rock Church International cited Romans 3:23 as they urged congregants to extend forgiveness to the Reverend John Blanchard following his arrest for solicitation of prostitution of a minor last fall.

Forgiveness.

The Catholic Church is ranting, not about child rape, but about the US Senate voting to codify same-sex marriage into law.

Gay men and women getting married has them outraged, but children being raped and they are silent. And complicit. Oh, and the Catholic Church is also ranting that The Gays, who cannot “naturally” procreate, are hijacking Christmas.

Churches turn a blind eye to child molestation but rant about marriage and Christmas, so tell me again how drag queens are grooming children by reading books to them. I’ll go so far as to say, take your kids to Drag Queen Story hour and not to church if you really want to protect them.

It’s the so-called Christians grooming kids as sex toys.

30 comments:

  1. An excellent point. I've never heard of a drag queen perpetrating a crime on a child.

    I think the darker your demons, the more you struggle (or pretend) to be holy.

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    1. That's exactly it; kids are safer with drag queens at reading hours than at their churches.

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  2. "Suffer little children to come unto me..." Those wicked paedophiles took it literally. I sometimes wonder about the abuse of children within the Muslim faith. It must happen and yet it has largely been kept under wraps. I guess that one day the truth will begin to emerge.

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    1. I don't think any religion is safe from predators, but some are better at hiding it, especially those that are more patriarchal in their beliefs; men can do no wrong.

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  3. I get your point. And I agree that the Churches as institutions must take responsibility for those who act criminally in their capacity as church ministers. Beyond that, I think they also need to examine more closely what it is and how their beliefs and systems of indoctrination may lead some to become sexually repressed and predatory. To be fair, however, not all priests and ministers are sexual predators and many are actually virtuous and dedicate their lives to the service of others.

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    1. I don't blame ALL priests, but I blame priests who rape kids, and priests who cover for priests who rape kids, and the whole system of moving predators around from parish to parish to avoid lawsuits and such,

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  4. OMFG!!! Reading these cases together in sequence - and I've no doubt it could be 100 times longer and still be too short - makes me wanna RETCH!

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    1. I agree; if these are printed how many more slip by the wayside in the small print on the back page of a tiny local newspaper??

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  5. Facts? You want to confuse things with facts?

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    1. Yes, pedophiles have no time for facts.

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  6. Chortle - Facts?
    xoxo :-)

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    1. Some people don't wanna see or hear them!
      xoxo

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  7. That's right -- pedophiles always try to hide and present themselves as trustworthy "pillar of the community" types.

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    1. The scariest "illusion" of them all.

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  8. Paedophiles should be.......I leave it to you to fill in the blank; I just cannot cope with all these perverts (and I don't mean drag queens at story hours).

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    1. They should be arrested, no matter what church they belong to, or who they are, or how much money they have, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; and those who attempt to aid and abet and hide child rapists, should also be punished,

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  9. You are not wrong.

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  10. Maybe there is a srong impulse to be Pollyanna but I have to believe that the vast majority of people, Christian or otherwise, are not predators. Yes, far too many of them are and far too many of what I call Corporate Cristianity institutions do the out of sight out of mind act and pretend that the really horendous acts are going on in their own back yards. I am a Christian, I go to an open and inclusive very small church in Abilene, TX and we deal, as a congregation, almost daily with the results of what those "Christians" toss aside and abandon. As a country we need to rethink the role that so called churches and their leaders play in our society. But we also need to acknowledge and hold dear those of all faiths or no faiths that take on the task of bringing good into the world, especially the world of children. And Drag Queens reading books to children should never be the fall guy for the prejudice of those idiots who can not see beyond their own nose the beautiful and diverse community of man kind.

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    1. Oh, I don't think everyone's a predator, but predators in churches are sometimes kept safe from being punished for their crimes out of fear of what people will think of that "church". But so many want to punish drag queens for reading to kids, but try to "save" the men who rape those children.

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  11. aussieguy5:43 PM

    Precisely the reason(s) I left organized religion in the rear view mirror. Saw too much, heard too much, and experienced way too much to tolerate what was being pushed from the pulpit. Are there decent Christians (and other religions)? Of course! I just choose to be the best person I can be without conforming to a very narrow definition of what OTHERS believe to be true. I don't tell others not to go to church or believe, but I expect the same courtesy from them. Too often, that doesn't happen.

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    1. I find that true Christians are the ones who don't feel the need to tell you they're true Chriustians; they just are.

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  12. It's never been the drag queens, but like other minorities the tend to stand out and so become easy targets, rather than the youth pastor who's polite, and cordial, and who wants to play private games with the kiddies.

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    1. But crazy folks aren't killing the priests and pastors who ARE molesting the children, they're coming after LGBTQ+ people and killing us because they're being fed lies and bigotry by the right.

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  13. If I had children, I would not think twice about having Drag Queens babysit them. A xtianist, on the other hand? NEVER.
    The 'conservatives' are going back to their old boogiemen, most probably in preparation to SCOTUS fucking up with our rights.

    XOXO

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    1. On the upside, I just read a story of a group of so-called "christians" trying to stop a drag queen story hour in New York state and they were thwarted. The show went on and many people showed. That's how we fight.

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  14. I've stayed away from the church since I was very young. Just didn't see the sense in wasting half a weekend that I could be spending at the beach. Now I'm glad.

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  15. Well said, dear. And for every one that gets caught? Nine get away with it.

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