KY Baptist church set to ordain convicted child molester

[xfundy]

http://www.whas11.com/topstories/stories/whas11-topstories-090911-sex-offender-ordain.16e52dda9.html

The religion industry will never run out of crazy.

[aquart]

1. I read your headline and thought "Jelly?"

[customerserviceguy]

2. It's OK by me if they ordain him

solely to run a prison ministry for the rest of his miserable life.

[rug]

3. Don't tell Ian David. He'll never shut up.

[struggle4progress]

4. They link to four other churches, one in TN, one in OH, and two in TX

http://cityofrefugewc.org/Links.aspx

One link is a myspace space, one is a pair of email addresses, and one is dead

Glory of Christ Community Gospel Church's myspace page gives its Zodiac Sign (Libra) and advertises "Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com"

Church of the Living Water says "Soon after the sixth year anniversary, the congregation of The Church of The Living Water, after much prayer and a leap of faith, purchased its first permanent church building at 731 S. Dickerson Pike in Goodlettsville." According to Google Earth, this is a house

As far as I can tell, they don't link to any national church organization

[struggle4progress]

5. Googling the address "1041 Goss Ave" of "City of Refuge Worship Center" yields

Flamenco Dance Studio
Russman & Son's Funeral Home
S & P Cell Phone Repair

Google Earth suggests the place is a room in an old run-down multi-use building

[laconicsax]

11. It's possible they rent the space.

Some of my friends in high school went to evangelical churches that rented public school cafeterias for their weekly worship services.

Not having a dedicated church site shouldn't be counted against them.

[struggle4progress]

13. Could be. Based on the WAVE news photo, I'd guess they're holding services in a funeral home

http://wave.images.worldnow.com.nyud.net:8090/images/11122881_BG2.jpg
Church ordains registered sex offender as minister
By Shayla Reaves
Posted By Charles Gazaway
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=11122881

The funeral home sounds like a family business. If I wanted to run a cell-phone repair business, I can't see any reason to run it out of funeral home space, unless I was part of the family and needed some other line of work between funerals. The same applies to dance lessons; why would I run a dance studio out of a funeral home unless I was part of the family? And why run a church out of a funeral home, unless there was some connection? I wonder if "Pastor Randy" presides over ceremonies in the funeral home "chapel" ...

[struggle4progress]

6. Here's another oddity: this barely or non-existent "church," and the "churches" it links

on its website, claim to be GLBT-friendly

The very strange combination ("GLBT-friendly" and "ordains sex offenders") seems to me intended only to provoke controversy and outrage

[xfundy]

7. Good detective work.

I think you may have hit the nail on the head.

[JohnnyLib2]

8. For the record, the Louisville news doesn't identify that as Baptist.

I don't think it is....

[zbird]

9. According to their web site it's pentecostal. nt

[struggle4progress]

10. It doesn't seem to be affiliated with any of the Pentecostal organizations, and of course

the Pentecostals are usually extremely conservative. So I suspect the "Pentecostal" designation here is meaningless

[sakabatou]

12. WTF?

[Odin2005]

14. Words fail me!

:grr: