A priest who impregnated one of his students will face defrocking but no charges will be filled.

The Rev. Luis Bonilla Margarito is accused of fathering a child with a teenager who had been a student at the Catholic high school where he served as chaplain. Her parents had installed a video camera in their basement after they became suspicious of the relationship, and recorded the couple having sex.

The Berks County district attorney says a criminal investigation was closed after police determined the relationship began when the girl was 18.

Move along sheeple, Rev Margarito only fathered a child after his student was 18. There is nothing to see here. There is nothing wrong with a priest impregnating an 18-year-old. It happens everyday.

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Reports of anti-Islamic activity are become disturbing. The recent arrest of a 17-year-old boy for disrupting an Islamic service is a further example.

Orleans County Sheriff Scott Hess says the same teens from nearby Holley shouted epithets and honked horns as they drove past the mosque Friday. That's when they say the 17-year-old fired a shotgun twice into the ground.

Have we moved from media attacks to bands of armed teenaged goons? This could get ugly. The mood feels reminiscent of a tea-party fueled pogrom. I’m actually worried about my Muslim friends.

Perez Blackmon is the new pastor at Rosinvick Missionary Baptist Church. The congregation voted him in.

The Early County Sheriff’s Office website earlycountysheriff.com lists Perez Blackmon as a registered sex offender. The website adds that he was convicted Feb. 17, 2005 in Early County for statutory rape.

Blackmon was sentenced to 15 years probation, according to the website.

A convicted rapist who is on probation. He was convicted of raping and molesting a child. He never admitted guilt. The terms of his probation prohibit him from being around children, yet he is the pastor of a church. It has children.

He’s stepped in it though, and I figure Pastor Blakmon’s days as a pastor are over. It looks like he is in violation of his parole, and you know what that means, Pastor Blakmon could end up in prison.

At the risk of going on a long rant, I must ask, what the hell are these people thinking? Why would you put a pedophile up as a pastor and who would follow him?

I walked around Las Vegas last Sunday with my camera. It was a wonderful visit. The weather stayed in the low 90s and there was a cool breeze blowing from the north. I explored the new City Center complex, which is way bigger than I expected. On the way back to my hotel, I found this painted on the gum stained sidewalk. It is the kid of thing I love to shoot.

Youth pastor Christopher Furey stands accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl in his charge at a Emmanuel Fellowship Church in Cottonwood.

Forty-three-year-old Christopher Furey was arrested on Aug. 20 and now faces 20 counts of sex offenses. The charges include felony sex with a minor, sexual abuse and luring a minor for sexual exploitation.

I don’t know how I missed this one. My only excuse is that August has been a busy month for pedophile pastors.

The Ecumenical Catholic Communion ordained Elaine Groppenbacher as a priest.

Vatican condemnation be damned, on Saturday Elaine Groppenbacher became the forth female to be ordained a Catholic priest in the Phoenix area.

Groppenbacher was ordained into the priesthood by the Ecumenical Catholic Communion, considered to be a more liberal branch of the Catholic church. She received her holy orders from valley Bishop Peter Hickman.

What do you call at female Catholic priest, mother?

The ordination of women is seen as a step toward healing the problems created by the all male clergy and their propensity to molest children.

In recent years, the Catholic Church has experienced a dramatic drop in membership, believed to be caused in great part by a spate of recent sex scandals within the clergy, as well as the church’s unwillingness to recognize women as ecumenical equals.

No word yet on when the Vatican hit squads roll into town.

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A comment was recently posted to this tread on Baptist pastor Robert Dando, who was arrested for child molestation.

What separates those of us who call themselves followers of Christ from those who claim there is no God is not any innate capacity to be more holy than anyone else. Nor can Atheists claim any higher moral ground for not having assumed any religious conviction, as if that made them somehow more enlightened, and therefore better human beings. The difference is that in calling ourselves followers of Christ we take on the repsonsbility[sic] of displaying a greater sense of morality and ethics, and when we fail we have to accept a greater sense of revolt coming from those around us. Atheists do not have that responsbility[sic]. The law they have to face is only the same judiciary which fortunately both Christians and Atheists have to face. Popular revolt is rightly reserved for those who should be faithful to the Christ they follow, but fail.
However, there is a strange twist of logic that allows the humanist ideology to use the existence of evil to disprove the existence of God, whereas the immense ammount[sic] of good which is done by humans of all religious persuasions is rarely used by the same theorists to prove the existence of a higher moral being or force which powers humans in those moments of doing good.

I am deeply disrurbed[sic] by child abuse, especially when perpetuated by those whom society has trusted. But it doesn´t really make any difference to the existence of God debate whether it´s done by Christians or not. It´s just wrong. As the Bible itself teaches us.

I took a few aspirin and decided to vent my frustration as a post. First, does anyone have any idea what “Friend” is saying?

Atheists claim any higher moral ground for not having assumed any religious conviction –

Do we claim higher moral ground because we don’t believe in God? No, we don’t claim higher moral ground at all. We say judge us by our actions not by what we say.

as if that made them somehow more enlightened, and therefore better human beings.

Are we talking about enlightenment? No, we are talking about men who claim the  higher moral ground as their own and then judge those who do not accept God as inferior. And then, through people like Pastor Dando, fail to live up to the moral standards they claim as  the birthright of all Christians, or should I say re-birthright?  All you need do is say a prayer and you are magically moral.

The difference is that in calling ourselves followers of Christ we take on the repsonsbility[sic] of displaying a greater sense of morality and ethics,

No you don’t take on any greater responsibility. We have a responsibility to be moral and ethical as human beings, as citizens, as parents and siblings, it is part of being who we are. We all share this responsibility, yet Christians claim it as their own despite evidence that it is a universal trait. Christians go so far as to call Atheists amoral and incapable of understanding moral beauty. Christians have no greater responsibility with regard to morality, they simply say that they do. It’s propaganda.

Christians take moral propaganda once step further by trying to enforce it on others. They “know best” and push an agenda based on how they think we should live. It is legislated religion and an attempt to control the  behavior of others, when they cannot even control their own.

I can go on, but I need another aspirin.

When we were young, my girlfriend and I eloped to Las Vegas and were married in the Candlelight Wedding Chapel. 30 years later my wife and I returned to celebrate our anniversary. We found that our wedding chapel had closed and was transformed into a museum complete with life-sized dummies reenacting a wedding. Its former owner saved it the building from destruction and gave it to the people of Nevada. It was moved from its previous location in front of the Riviera and Circus Circus Hotels to the grounds of the Clark County Museum.

In its day it was the place to get married in Vegas.

Originally Little Church of the West Algiers and then All Religions Wedding Chapel, it was the first chapel with an 800 number and limo service. It married so many couples daily that a side door was installed to usher out fresh newlyweds so they wouldn’t bump into wedding parties making their formal procession down the aisle.

We entered through the front doors on August 30, 1980, and a little after 2 in afternoon, exited through the side door. Since we were too young to gamble, we played pinball at Circus Circus instead. Good times.

My wife and I plan to donate some of our memorabilia to the museum’s display. They are collecting pictures, marriage certificates, receipts and anything else related to the chapel. I’ll post our wedding picture to Facebook. Don’t laugh. I wore flip-flops.