So the pastor of my father's megachurch has been accused of statutory rape
Growing up, my father was nominally Christian, but not particularly observant. About 3 years ago he got involved with a megachurch in in Scottsdale, Arizona called Highlands. He's been pretty obnoxious at times, constantly trying to get my wife and me to leave our church and go to Highlands, despite the fact that we've made it clear that we're perfectly content with our own church. He's also been trying to target our three year old daughter, and trying to get us to bring her to all these children's festivals. We usually decline, because I know how these "festivals" are usually just thinly disguised recruitment drives.
We have attended the church a couple of times with him over the year, and both times it was prosperity gospel theology at its worst. The second time we visited, which was in October 2016, they were handing out "voter guides," which stopped JUST short of outright saying "vote for Trump," but still made it clear who the church was endorsing. The church also has a reputation for being an upper class church, and my father would frequently brag about local celebrities who were members.
Anyway, earlier this week news broke that Les Hughey, their head pastor and the founder of the church, has been accused of sexual contact with teenage girls when he was a youth pastor at First Baptist Church at Modesto, California. According to the victim, he was quietly forced out of the church, but they never revealed to the congregation why he was leaving. According to the victim, the congregation was told that he had taken a position in another church, he was even given a hero's farewell on his last Sunday in Modesto.
Apparently it's not an isolated incident . The Arizona Republic reported that before founding Highlands Church, Hughey served as a pastor at Scottsdale Bible Church (another well-to-do megachurch here in Phoenix). Now women from that church are coming forward about how he initiated sexual contact with them when they were teenagers.
The kicker: when I saw the news report, I checked out the website of Highlands, out of morbid curiosity. Just a few weeks before this story broke, he had delivered a series of sermons on sexual immorality.
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I wonder how so many people who claim to read the Bible swallowed that line of BS? I'm not a Christian, but what I remember from when I was a kid, is that love of money is the root of all evil & that it's harder for a rich man to enter heaven than it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Personally, I wish the damned rapture would take place & remove these ignorant, hateful people from the planet. 
No slap on the wrist for you!
for Megachurches, the prosperity gospel means being prosperous in all things - including a wild, prosperous sex life.
These people are nothing more than selfish heathens in suits and ties......
them apologize?
He preaches what he knows.
