Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in Dallas-area GOP politics.
  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    29·
    2 days ago

    In the south we have an idiom “Birds of a feather flock together”, which means people tend to associate with others of similar morals, ethics, beliefs. So, needless to say, I’m hardly surprised. Trump associate and pastor? There was almost no chance this filth was anything BUT a pedophile.

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Nah! Its probably just one more coincidence, don’t you think?

      I’ve seen a bunch of movies where the cop asks people the same question and they point to a guy, the same guy. Those shows are fun. Because of the coincidences. Am I right?

  • Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world
    542·
    3 days ago

    Name an industry that if they had this many child sexual predators, wouldn’t be immediately shut down and banned from operating ever again.

    Seriously. Can you imagine if, say, NASA had the same ratio of child sexual predators as Christian churches do? Or Applebee’s? Or Jiffy Lube? They’d all have to close up shop. Hell, there’s a daycare in my town that was in business for 30 years, and a teacher got busted for diddling a kid. That place was done for THAT WEEK. Doors closed, never opened again. Probably tens of thousands of kids came through that place just fine, but all it took was ONE, and they were kaput.

    These fucking churches need to be shut the fuck down. Those black metal guys in the 90s had the right idea.

  • Captain Janeway@lemmy.world
    562·
    3 days ago

    Why is it always the church? That’s rhetorical by the way. Fuck organized religion that makes everyone bend the knee.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    341·
    3 days ago

    As I always say, keep your children away from religion. They are the pedophiles, and they accuse everybody else of it. It’s a cult!

    • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
      151·
      3 days ago

      And even if you think it’s not a cult, your children will have plenty of time to meet God or whatever when they’re old enough to make the decision on their own. Your god isn’t so weak that he needs to indoctrinate impressionable children to gain followers, is he?

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        2 days ago

        That’s the thing that always bothered me about religion. There’s no sales pitch, its just indoctrination. There’s a million different varieties of religion, and supposedly only one of them is “correct”

        Judaism seems to make the most sense to me of the monotheistic varieties because there is no demi gods like Christianity. But clearly religion isn’t about religion, it’s more about having an in group.

  • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    Clemishire’s disclosure came as the Dallas religious community was still reeling from a handful of recent sex abuse scandals. Since then, at least a dozen Dallas-area churches or pastors have been accused of committing or concealing sexual misconduct — allegations that have ensnared some of the area’s most prominent leaders and institutions.

    Is Dallas a sanctuary city for paedophiles? 'Cause it sure looks like it from here.

    • supernight52@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      No, the entire south is just where they all flee, since they can claim they are being “persecuted for my belief in GAWD” and the religious idiots just never question it. Despite the fact that they are a member of the most popular cult in the world, and the defacto religion of the US… Then when they start doing the same thing down south, the community will rally around their religious leader instead of kicking them out. Religion is a cancer.

  • cdf12345@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    3 days ago

    “Few, if any, were more high-profile than Morris, who steadily involved himself in state and national politics after founding Gateway in 2000”

    The 90’s nerd in me did a huge double take when I read Gateway 2000

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    3 days ago

    Few, if any, were more high-profile than Morris, who steadily involved himself in state and national politics after founding Gateway in 2000. In 2017, Morris was tapped by Gov. Greg Abbott to help support the so-called “Bathroom Bill” that sought to ban transgender people from using their preferred bathroom — in part by arguing that it would allow children to be sexually abused.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      26·
      3 days ago

      Morris was tapped by Gov. Greg Abbott to help support the so-called “Bathroom Bill” that sought to ban transgender people from using their preferred bathroom — in part by arguing that it would allow children to be sexually abused.

      Wow, the GOP actually hired an expert with hands on experience in child sexual abuse. Thats and unusual departure from their regular practice of inexperienced and unqualified people put in positions to decide legislation.