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NeoGreen

(4,033 posts)
Mon Jun 17, 2019, 03:25 PM Jun 2019

A Pastor Who Wanted Women Executed for Abortions Was Arrested for Raping a Child

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/06/17/a-pastor-who-wanted-women-executed-for-abortions-was-arrested-for-raping-a-child/




A Pastor Who Wanted Women Executed for Abortions Was Arrested for Raping a Child
By Hemant Mehta, June 17, 2019

The short version of this story is that a Southern Baptist pastor was arrested for sexually assaulting a minor.

The longer version of this story is somehow even more disturbing.

A couple of months ago, Texas was considering a ban on abortions that would have subjected women — not just doctors — to the death penalty. Because that’s what it means to be “pro-life” in Texas.

A Republican state legislator, Jeff Leach, said he couldn’t support the “Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act” because he felt only doctors should be punished, and the bill eventually died. Jack Graham, the pastor of a Houston megachurch, even praised Leach (who happened to be a member of his congregation) for his “courageous” decision.

But that exchange infuriated Stephen Bratton, the pastor at Grace Family Baptist Church, who had publicly testified in defense of the bill. He soon penned a lengthy rebuke of Graham for supporting a man who had prevented the passage of an anti-abortion bill — in a red state, no less — and for allowing supposed “murder” to continue unabated.


(Snip: quote of rapist's religious nonsensical ranting redacted)



See, everyone? Unlike Graham, Bratton cared about children — pre-born and presumably otherwise. As a pastor, he understood the influence he had. He also understood the importance of moral integrity because he would one day stand before the Lord.

In hindsight, that was quite a statement coming from Bratton, because a month after he wrote that public denunciation against Graham, he confessed to his fellow church leaders that he had repeatedly raped an underage relative.

No wonder he wanted to protect the unborn. In a few years, they could become his victims.


Emphasis added.

When is "Religious Man" going to have the same social sigma in a news headline that "Florida Man" currently enjoys?
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A Pastor Who Wanted Women Executed for Abortions Was Arrested for Raping a Child (Original Post) NeoGreen Jun 2019 OP
I am shocked SHOCKED to find gambling on here. nycbos Jun 2019 #1
Here are your winnings, sir. (nt) NeoGreen Jun 2019 #2
Why isn't he locked up? procon Jun 2019 #3
"Holy Man".. uriel1972 Jun 2019 #4
This world is so fucked up! smirkymonkey Jun 2019 #5

procon

(15,805 posts)
3. Why isn't he locked up?
Mon Jun 17, 2019, 06:19 PM
Jun 2019

He's a confessed pedophile, the worst sort of child abuser. Where are the cops with an arrest warrant? Why hasn't his congregation demanded his resignation and turned him in? Where is the live camera crews and the news reporters shouting scathing questions at this pervert? Why isn't the community angrily protesting about the child rapist masquering as a holy man and hiding his perversion while oggling their precious kids?

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