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The_Shadout_Mapes's avatar

Let’s not forget that when the girl finally told her father about the abuse she suffered for four years, the pastor’s wife called the girl to tell her she forgave the girl.

I truly hope their idea of Hell exists and the pastor, his wife, his lawyer, the church elders, et al rot there.

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GF Superman's avatar

Ugh

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

Do we know what she was wearing? How low cut were her pink pajamas? Did the bottom pajamas show a lot of ankle?

She also “acted inappropriately with two other men who stayed in her home between 1982 and 1987,” Sharpe wrote in his letter.

I have a feeling someone in her family might have been molesting her. That's the only time I know of that children "act inappropriately." "Act Inappropriately" is a code word for something kids do when someone has introduced them to sex at a very young age. Years ago I had a neighbor who was fostering a 5 year old who would do inappropriate things, because that's what her teenage, meth addict parents had taught her to do.

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Rick G.'s avatar

One wonders whether the "password only" parts of Project 2025 include repealing laws on statutory rape, at least for white male evangelicals.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

They seem to be taking over from the Catholics in the child molestation sweepstakes. The weird part is that they are allowed to marry adult, human, women, unlike the Catholics.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. Anyone who votes for that thing is a traitor to humanity and the planet.

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Pexas Teat's avatar

Trump really does surround himself with people who molest and rape children. You'd think Republicans could find a more suitable candidate, but I guess this stuff doesn't bother them.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

Remember when the Q-anon idiots thought Trump was going to round up all the pedophiles? Apparently he wouldn't have had to look too hard, since he surrounds himself with them.

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Pexas Teat's avatar

Keep your friends close, and keep the pedos who are your real friends closer.

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

This is the party that could not bring themselves to vote against child marriage in Missouri.

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Ms.Moon's avatar

I was the eldest daughter and eldest cousin so I had babysitting when I was 12 because I was a cheap babysitter but I also had parents that told me to make a lot of noise and scream if anyone touched me inappropriately because they understood that the world could be unkind to girls plus our family is definitely not evangelical in any sense. Too many of those types of churches want women to stay sweet and be complicit in their own subjugation. That twelve year old girl was not responsible for anything that happened to her and that “church leadership” isn’t fit to lead a mule to a watering hole.

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TakingAmes's avatar

Is it bad that I knew exactly what was wrong with that J. Shelby Sharpe as soon as I saw his name next to his picture? You don’t grow up in the Southern Baptist Church without knowing 8-10 of those “elders.” Dickhole.

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Mark Linimon's avatar

In other news, Dante is reporting that they are digging another circle in Hell.

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WasX's avatar

Thank you, Mark.

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Jeanne Ewert's avatar

Good god. I still played with Barbies at 12. Surreptitiously, because I thought I was too old and that my friends would make fun of me if they knew. I am pretty sure I wore flowered pajamas. Sure glad my parents didn't invite any evangelists to stay over that would have thought that was reason enough to rape me.

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Sojourner44's avatar

Cultural problems in Texas began in 1970? I knew it. Those damned hippies again!

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Runfastandwin's avatar

"Sharpe denied knowing that the girl was 12 at the time" WTAF?

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Yeah, we all have mistaken a 12 year old for 28 now and then, right? /s

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JR's avatar

Behind every good spiritual abuser, is a junior jezebel...

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

These people are the heart of MAGAt world. This is why they're not offended by the Epstein information, because they're him. Why would this solid trump voter be upset about rage yam fucking 12-year-olds, when he's done so himself or at least defended somebody who did. Now, don't get me wrong, they'll still let their Christian fundamentalist freak flag fly, they'll pretend that they would NEVER (unless caught), and they'll scream that it's all FAKE NEWS. That way they can have it both ways. They can climb on their high horse and point fingers at drag queens in the morning and then diddle their congregants' children in the afternoon.

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Underdawg23's avatar

How many preachers have been arrested for child abuse this year? How many drag queens?

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Runfastandwin's avatar

At least one every day and none that I've heard about.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Lessee...Untold hundred vs. 1 or 2, maybe?

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