Almost two years ago now, we had the tragic string of FLDS stories of idiot parents turning to prayer instead of legitimate medical attention. Who can forget Madeline Neumann and Ava Worthington who both died because their parents got in their knees instead of in their cars to take their innocent children to the hospital? [...]
Matthew Snatchko, a youth pastor in California, struck up a conversation about God with a passerby at the Roseville Galleria Mall in 2006. According to police, he had been told several times before not to bother customers on mall property, but apparently God’s work is far too important to pay any attention to the rules [...]
Virginia’s House of Delegates voted down a proposal that would allow implantable tracking devices to be required within the state, mostly for employment purposes, but I suppose it would go as far as restricting it for paroled criminals, etc. On the surface, that’s not much of a story, especially since I don’t think employees ought [...]
A mother in Sussex County, New Jersey has been convicted of child endangerment when she refused to provide food for her four starving children, telling them that God would provide. Jurors convicted Estelle Walker in just 30 minutes of felony child endangerment, her children were found suffering from extreme malnourishment in a cabin in 2006. [...]
A pastor in Bloomingdale, Georgia was arrested at his church, the New Harvest International Ministries Church, for sexual battery and child molestation in relation to an incident with a pre-5-year old boy. Pastor Kenneth Terrell is accused of molesting the boy between August and September of 2009.
“God didn’t put pastors here and give them the [...]
A pastor in Crescent, Oklahoma, even though he’s been charged with molesting children, has decided he’s not going to leave his church, he’s going to stay and fight and he says his congregation is behind him all the way.
Edwin House, 71, was charged with five counts of lewd molestation in Logan County District Court. House [...]