Conservative Christian Child Molestation - the real Pizzagate

[MatthewG.]

Increasingly, it seems like the real Pizzagate is the social conservative predilection for child molestation and preying on underage girls, with a culture of conservative churches and politicians apologizing or overlooking it.


‘Much of the sexual abuse that takes place in Independent Fundamentalist Baptist, or IFB, churches involves adult men targeting 14- to 16-year-old girls. If caught, the teenage victim may be forced to repent the “sin” of having seduced an adult man. Former IFB megachurch pastor Jack Schaap argued that he should be released from prison after being convicted of molesting a 16-year-old girl, asserting that the “aggressiveness” of his victim “inhibited [his] impulse control.” In the wake of the Schaap case, numerous other stories emerged of sexual abuse cover-ups involving teenage girls at IFB churches. In another high-profile case, pregnant 15-year-old Tina Anderson, who was raped by a church deacon twice her age, was forced to confess her “sin” to the congregation.’

Worth thinking about when we consider how many politicians are saying they’d support Moore even if they believed the allegations against him were true.


‘After a long pause, Alabama Bibb County Republican chairman Jerry Pow tells me he'd vote for Roy Moore even if Moore did commit a sex crime against a girl.

"I would vote for Judge Moore because I wouldn't want to vote for Doug," he says. "I'm not saying I support what he did."’

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-brightbill-roy-moore-evangelical-culture-20171110-story.html

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

1. Bullshit!

"I would vote for Judge Moore because I wouldn't want to vote for Doug," he says. "I'm not saying I support what he did." He also isn't saying he does NOT support Moore's crimes.

Voting for Moore SCREAMS that you support what he did.

Either Alabama Bibb County Republican chairman Jerry Pow is a bald faced liar or finds it very easy to fool himself.

[MatthewG.]

2. Conservative office holders disgrace themselves once again.

Sadly, it didn’t surprise me to see many conservative politicians yet again disgrace themselves - this time by by saying they’d knowingly vote in a child molester.

It does seem to me that conservative child molestation - or more accurately, a conservative church culture in the Bible Belt that condones such activity and the number of elected conservative office holders willing to overlook it, even when brought out in public - is a legitimate social issue of serious concern.

[maxsolomon]

3. its a measure of their disdain for Democrats

30 years of demonization from the pulpit and the AM dial were very effective.

[MatthewG.]

4. Partly, true...

Partly true, to be sure, but it seems like we’ve got a lot of conservative officeholders not especially bothered by child molestation. In light of that, if there’s a conservative church culture in the Bible Belt promoting this type of activity it’s not unreasonable to ask whether politicians willing to overlook public incidents of it are at least tacitly supporting religious pedophilia in private.