Baptist Pedophile Pastors Still Staying Busy

[Tbird]

http://abpnews.com/ministry/congregation...ama-church

"An Alabama Baptist church fired its new pastor after his recent arrest on sexual abuse charges in Texas, but it isn’t the pastor’s first time in jail.

Mark Allen Green

Mark Allen Green, 41, in jail under a $500,000 bond in Waxahachie, Texas, has a long criminal rap sheet, including nearly a decade in the Texas state prison system before his release in 2007, according to WAFF television in Huntsville, Ala."

[notdrinkingthekoolaid]

Sounds like the church moved quickly. My question is how can a guy like this still be walking free if he has such a rap sheet?!

[Tiarali]

How the hell was he made a pastor in the first place.

[lucrezaborgia]

(06-07-2012 09:22 PM)notdrinkingthekoolaid Wrote:  My question is how can a guy like this still be walking free if he has such a rap sheet?!

Depends. Did he serve his sentences concurrently or separately? Did he get out on probation? If most of his convictions are not felonies and his state does not have a three-strikes law he could be out quickly for most crimes.

[BASSENCO]

ohmigosh, where do you even start? A "cowboy" church? Just how infantile and imbecilic are Baptists going to get? I guess if a con man needed a church for a cover, he ought to pick one where every adult wants to treat religion as part of a bigger game in which he or she gets to be a cowboy or cowgirl or the local school marm or whatever. And there is the good old SBC, defending its Biblical right not to demand background checks. These people got what they asked for: somebody who treated their church like a game. And from the news account, it looks like a lot of the members of the church didn't want him removed. In any case, instead of censuring him, defrocking him, and putting him out of Christian fellowship, the church is resolutely staying quiet.

[Tbird]

(06-08-2012 04:18 AM)BASSENCO Wrote:  ohmigosh, where do you even start? A "cowboy" church? Just how infantile and imbecilic are Baptists going to get? I guess if a con man needed a church for a cover, he ought to pick one where every adult wants to treat religion as part of a bigger game in which he or she gets to be a cowboy or cowgirl or the local school marm or whatever. And there is the good old SBC, defending its Biblical right not to demand background checks. These people got what they asked for: somebody who treated their church like a game. And from the news account, it looks like a lot of the members of the church didn't want him removed. In any case, instead of censuring him, defrocking him, and putting him out of Christian fellowship, the church is resolutely staying quiet.

This reminds me of what happened with Bill Cabe. More than a decade ago, after the closure of his boys home, Riverside Baptist Home for Boys (which I heard him say years before from his own mouth that he wanted to fashion after New Bethany), sponsored by the church he pastored, Riverside Baptist Church in Rock Hill, SC for being under suspicion of sexually abusing boys, and then going to FEDERAL PRISON for the ponzi scheme he and Joel Shirley cooked up (HisWay Ministries) that bilked his own church members and many other "christians" out of more than 8 million dollars, Riverside Baptist Church welcomed him back with OPEN ARMS as their pastor upon his release from prison. I have heard that he actually continued to pastor this church from prison, although I've found nothing to substantiate THAT part of the story. As far as I know, he is STILL the pastor of Riverside, while he awaits trial for NEW charges of sexually molesting another boy who attended his church back in 2010. What else can you say except WHAT THE HE** IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

[Tbird]

I just thought of something else regarding "cowboy churches". Isn't it Boyd Householder at Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in Humansville, MO who calls himself the "Gunslinger for God"?

[BASSENCO]

I don't know, but I do know that the cowboy image is a strong one in the culture of Christian Fundamentalism. There are no cowboys in the Bible, of course. But then, a lot of what you find in Christian Fundamentalism never appears in the Bible.

[Darren]

I currently live in Alabama, and there are several Cowboy Churches around. They are not definitely not fundy. They are non-denominational churches who put more emphasis on being cowboys than doctrine of any sort, good or bad. They typically have Sunday morning services, host lots of community events and usually have a monthly or bimonthly rodeo. They mostly cater to wannabe cowboys and to truckers and other transient people who enjoy the fellowship.

[BASSENCO]

(06-08-2012 06:35 AM)Darren Wrote:  I currently live in Alabama, and there are several Cowboy Churches around. They are not definitely not fundy. They are non-denominational churches who put more emphasis on being cowboys than doctrine of any sort, good or bad. They typically have Sunday morning services, host lots of community events and usually have a monthly or bimonthly rodeo. They mostly cater to wannabe cowboys and to truckers and other transient people who enjoy the fellowship.

This particular church is part of the Southern Baptist Convention, though I am sure there is a Cowboy culture that sprawls through independent churches of different hues. But I wouldn't be surprised, even if they downplay it, to find that a lot of these are Baptists of one sort or another.