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1 - Immoralities in Christians churches
Lesbians/ and homosexuality
Swedish Pastor Sentenced for 'Hate Speech' has been sentenced to jail for preaching against homosexuality and other sexual sin.
http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/CWN/091004sweden.asp
This place is probably not where you'd expect to find a man like Ake Green. In the little village of Borgholm, in southern Sweden, this quiet Swedish pastor of a small Pentecostal church decided to stand against what he says is his nation's 'embrace' of homosexuality.
But because of what he preached, Pastor Green has been sentenced to a month in jail under a 'hate speech' law.
Pastor Green said, "I was watching television, reading the newspaper, listening to high profile people - actors, singers - glorifying the homosexual lifestyle. And I was worried, and was concerned, and I felt a deep burden in my heart to speak on that topic."
To read more about the above event, refer to text number 41 in this page
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2 - The following links show hundreds of sex abuses by pastors.
Lesbian Remains a Methodist Cleric, for Now | The United Methodist Church's supreme court ruled Tuesday that it lacked the authority to reconsider the case of a lesbian pastor who was permitted to remain in ministry by a local church court in Washington State. (New York Times)
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/118/31.0.html
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2:1 - LA church to pay $660 MILLIONS over clergy abuse "SEX ABUSE" by priests
"LOS ANGELES"
For more information, refer to page Homo priests
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3 - New ruling means lesbian pastor loses ordination
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2071
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4 - Sex abuse by Pastors
http://reformation.com/CSA/variousabuse.html
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5 - In the hospital washroom
Pastor here has been charged with forcing a 12-year-old girl to perform oral sex in a hospital bathroom
http://www.reformation.com/CSA/clark1.htm
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6 - Raped a boy
A church youth pastor of Evergreen Alliance Church, was sentenced to prison for raping a 4-year-old boy; and another church pastor, Eads, 18, hung his head through the sentencing hearing before District Judge Stewart Stadler as his 6-year-old victim's parents testified about the damage Eads wreaked. Said the boy's father, Eads "raped my son with me in the house. He raped my son in our church" probably 40 times,
http://www.reformation.com/CSA/eads1.htm
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8 - Various crimes
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9 - Some followers collapse and wail after their pastor found guilty in '94 sex abuse of teen
Pentecostal church in Aldine collapsed on a Harris County courthouse floor
http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2005/07/pastor-convicted-in-abuse.php
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10 - Pastor had sex with kids in front of congregation. Agrees to testify
in exchange for dramatically reduced sentence.
http://www.ags.uci.edu/~dehill/witchhunt/ccla/pages/current.htm
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11 - Former pastor found guilty of sex charges
http://www.abc.net.au/northtas/news/200412/s1259903.htm
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12 - 58-year-old Maurice Blackwell guilty on three of four counts of abusing Dontee Stokes, Blackwell is a pastor.
http://www.woai.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=05F5F882-7242-4187-969A-126E4C9CA6A3
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13 - A Filipino pastor has been found guilty of "Abusing Islam and Christian Missionary Activity" in Dubai,
http://www.persecution.net/news/uae2.html
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14 - Pastor is charged with sexually abusing teenager
http://exchristian.net/2/2005/12/pastor-is-charged-with-sexually.html
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15 - Pastor in Veneta are working with authorities on a sex abuse case allegedly involving former associate pastor, Charles Fenwick and a 14 year old girl who is now 19.
http://priority2.blogspot.com/2004/10/abuse-in-church.html
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16 - Albany pastor convicted of sexually abusing his daughter
http://www.katu.com/stories/73514.html
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17 - Pastor has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for sexually abusing his 11-year-old daughter.
http://www.koin.com/news.asp?RECORD_KEY[news]=ID&ID[news]=765
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18 - Youth pastor, a convicted sex offender
http://www.rickross.com/reference/clergy/clergy452.html
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19 - Pastor accused of sexually abusing minors
http://priority2.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_priority2_archive.html
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20 - Some followers collapse and wail after their pastor found guilty in '94 sex abuse of teen
http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=3429934&postID=112269064607310381
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21 - Pastor guilty of three counts of first-degree sex abuse involving young boys.
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1139048240165470.xml&coll=3
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22 - Pastor Arthur Mallard, 63, was found guilty by a federal grand jury of 208 charges including ... Magnuson is accused of sexually abusing a boy from ages 12-15 ...
http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/1996/jan_feb96/betrayal.html
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23 - Pastor of Bon Secour Assembly of God, Marshall David Cumbie, 37, has been accused of sexually abusing a teenage
http://reformation.com/CSA/variousabuse.html
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24 - Pastors’ criminal record, thousands of abuses on this site.
http://reformation.com/CSA/variousabuse.html
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25 - Pastor 43-year-old has been found guilty of sexually abusing his foster daughter
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=38520
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26 - BAYTOWN, Texas (BP)--The pastor of a church removed from membership in the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention says his relationship to a homosexual-affirming ministry does not constitute an endorsement of homosexuality.
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22492
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27 - An evangelical pastor in Stillwater has found himself in the middle of a controversy for standing up in public for moral values
http://www.mfc.org/contents/article.asp?id=944
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28 - Homosexual pastor faces charges Methodist minister accused of perjury in 'gay' partner's assault trial
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17559
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29 - LUTHERAN CHURCH VOTES TO KEEP HOMOSEXUAL PASTOR
http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/lutheranchurch.htm
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30 - Ten Commandments. Lutheran Congregation Ordains Homosexual Pastor.
http://www.reclaimamerica.org/Pages/News/news.aspx?story=1985
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31 - One Pastor's Letter to the Editor
In my eight years, at least six such "came out" to me, the first clergy they asked this nagging question to, who was not part of a political movement to make homosexual behavior an equally valid lifestyle. This took courage on their part, and it was gratifying to me that I had been thought so "approachable."
http://www.ifca.org/voice/03Nov-Dec/jsmith.htm
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32 - Homosexual Gay Pastor In Pulpit
http://www.ucmpage.org/news/news_page.html
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33 - Worship led by a practicing homosexual pastor
http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/ASAN7069/mycustompage0004.htm
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34 - Appoint a pastor who has been found by a trial court to be a "self-avowed practicing homosexual."
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35 - Homosexual pastor faces charges. Methodist minister accused of perjury in 'gay' partner's assault trial
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36 - Pastor who has been found by a trial court to be a "self-avowed practicing homosexual
http://www.nccumc.org/gc04/judcouncil.htm
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37 - Homosexual Pastor Third in Succession for UMC Church in Seattle
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/152004c.asp
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38 - The homosexual pastor had numerous supporters ...
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/222004a.asp
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39 - PASTOR GETS PRISON FOR HOMOSEXUAL REMARK IN SERMON
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes%3Bread=52092
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40 - A lesbian Methodist pastor will be allowed to continue her ministry after she was acquitted Saturday in a church trial over her sexual orientation.
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2004/03/21/area_news/news01.prt
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Search the web and you will find thousands of those crimes.
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41 - Pastors and homosexuality:
Swedish Pastor Sentenced for 'Hate Speech' has been sentenced to jail for preaching against homosexuality and other sexual sin.
http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/CWN/091004sweden.asp
This place is probably not where you'd expect to find a man like Ake Green. In the little village of Borgholm, in southern Sweden, this quiet Swedish pastor of a small Pentecostal church decided to stand against what he says is his nation's 'embrace' of homosexuality.
But because of what he preached, Pastor Green has been sentenced to a month in jail under a 'hate speech' law.
Pastor Green said, "I was watching television, reading the newspaper, listening to high profile people - actors, singers - glorifying the homosexual lifestyle. And I was worried, and was concerned, and I felt a deep burden in my heart to speak on that topic."
Green prepared the sermon last year, on what The bible indicates about homosexuality, with the intention that the townspeople of Borgholm come to hear him. But attendance was disappointing.
So Ake Green had his sermon published in the local newspaper. In it, he compared the sin of Sweden to the sin of Sodom.
He warned, "Our country is facing a disaster of great proportions! Of that we can be sure. God said the land would vomit out its inhabitants. Our country is facing a disaster."
But it was how he described sexual practices like homosexuality that brought the charge against him: Green told us, "What I said was that sexual abnormality was like a cancer of the society." In more precise English, a "cancerous tumor."
He ended his sermon speaking of God's grace and with respect for those living in sexual sin.
He said, "What these people need, who live under the slavery of sexual immorality, is an abundant grace. It exists. Therefore we will encourage those who live in this manner to look at the grace of Jesus = (Yeshua) Christ = (Mashiach) = (Messiah). We cannot condemn these people. Jesus = (Yeshua) never belittled anyone. He offered them grace."
But his ending didn't matter. The printed sermon was seen by local homosexuals and the district prosecutor, and Green was convicted in a district court and given a month in jail.
A sentence he has not yet served because he is appealing the conviction. Green's defense attorney is Percy Bratt, the Chairman of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.
Bratt said, "The very basic question that is raised in this matter is: to what extent it is criminal to teach from the words in the Bible, so to say."
The hate speech law used to
convict Green was first intended to protect Jews and other ethnic minorities
from Nazi sympathizers. But in more recent times the law was amended to also
protect 'sexual orientation.'
Bratt said, "The wordings of this provision are very general, so the area that
shall be criminalized is up to the courts."
The district prosecutor in the case refused to speak with CBN News. But we were able to speak with Sweden's national gay and lesbian organization in Stockholm, the RFSL, which supports Green's conviction.
The RFSL spokesperson said, "Hatred and defamation is not to be accepted, just because it's based on religious beliefs or religious scriptures. You have some limits when it comes to the freedom of speech."
But the Ake Green case is becoming an embarrassment for a nation which prides itself on its tolerance. It may also be a catalyst.
Josef Östby is a noted Missionary and Pastor in Sweden's Pentecostal Movement. He said, "I felt it's like a prophetic message - for our time -in Sweden."
Östby also hopes God is using an unknown preacher from a small town to awaken a nation.
Östby said, "A kind person like Green, silent, is working in a small church. [Then he spoke up.] And today, the whole country is talking about it, and [even other] countries are touched by his simple message."
But support for Green among some Swedish evangelical leaders has been surprisingly lukewarm. Green blames them for acquiescing to the homosexual agenda. He said he draws his inspiration from the Old Testament prophets.
Green said, "We have read about Jeremiah = (Jeremias), Ezekiel = (Ezechiel), Daniel, Hosea = (Osee), and Amos. They were living in times of spiritual decline. I believe we are dealing with a spiritual dimension here. The Evangelical churches don't want a confrontation with what's going on in Swedish society, and that makes them silent."
Green's attorney says the case will now go to an appeals court, and if necessary, to Sweden's Supreme Court, and even to the European Court, if necessary. He says the district judge misapplied the law.
Bratt said, "The court must, when applying this provision, make a balancing act between the right of homosexuals and the right of the freedom of religion and the right of the freedom of expression. And we say that the court has not made a proper such balancing."
But other nations are moving in the same direction or already have similar laws, including Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Östby calls Green's conviction a tragedy for democracy in Sweden. He said, "We cannot, in Sweden, be known for things like putting a pastor in jail for a sermon! This is impossible!"
But the spokesman for Sweden's national gay and lesbian organization said one month in jail is not long enough for Green. It hopes a higher court will impose a longer sentence.
The RFSL spokesperson said, "The district attorney has said 6 to 8 months would be more appropriate when it comes to this crime and we cannot do anything else but to agree with that."
Ake Green says he's not afraid to go to jail. Green added, "I am not a criminal, I don't feel like a criminal, but this new law makes us preachers 'as criminals' if we speak up."
Some say Pastor Green has awakened Swedish evangelicals on the issue of homosexuality. He's certainly created an uncomfortable dividing line for church leaders, whether to speak boldly what The bible indicates about homosexuality, or not.
An otherwise overlooked pastor has done something to grab the attention of a nation. Ake Green says he was "only obeying God."