• Protecting an Abuser: Leaders of a Minnesota church didn’t report a parishioner to police though they knew he’d sexually abused girls for years and had been told reporting it was their duty.
  • Forgive and Forget: Church leaders held meetings where children were told to forgive the man who sexually abused them and forget the abuse. If they spoke of it, the sin would be theirs.
  • Missed Opportunities: Prosecutors had at least one opportunity to intervene but hoped educating church leaders about their duties would encourage them to cooperate with authorities.
    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      But forgiving drag queens is wrong despite Galatians 3:28 in the New Testament:

      There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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      Never is.

      They don’t like drag queens because the drag queens might teach their kids to be literate.

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        I wouldn’t say never, after all Rudy Giuliani has done drag, and there was that time he got caught in a hotel room with someone he thought was 15 and his hand down his pants.

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          I don’t think cross dressing a few times qualifies him to be a drag queen any more than changing a headlight makes someone a mechanic.

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          Don’t forget when members of IDF cross-dressed, and went into a hospital to kill some people.