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Sex offender to be ordained 8:56

Well, at least he will have a large support group to move him around and hide him if he sexually abuses more children.
 
As much as I detest pedophiles, I could not help but think that Christ came to earth, not to save the self righteous, but sinners.

Didn't Christ have some special words for the protection of children. Even Christ maybe would "forgive" a sinner but I do not think that Christ would place children in the path of pedophiles. Pedophiles are an extreme form of sinner and once they commit such a crime they have given up the right to be considered human beings. Pedophiles are not deserving of the right to achieve redemtion. Pedophiles should be flushed down the toilet.
 
Just a minute here. Since I'm not in the mood to get into another little brouhaha about this, I'm not referring to coercion. I'm referring to physical force. If the sodomy was not physically forcible, that may have accounted for a reduced sentence.

same result, there should be no reduction in the sentence served.
 
The least shall become the highest, I guess.
 
I want this moster out of my area where I live. I've been protesting everytime they have a service. These people go out of their way to protect him. There has to be something in it for them and I don't think it's religon.
They used their kid to baracade me from getting to him this past Sunday.
I've never seen people act like this over a child molester and useing their kid.
 
Still, I would think in a religion your sin can be forgiven but not forgotten, especially with such hienous acts.

There are a lot of things he could do in a church besides being a leader.

Exactly, his sin can be forgiven, provided he is truly remorseful for his actions, but putting him in a position of church leadership is going to create a stumbling block for other people, which Christians are warned specifically against doing.
 
I want this moster out of my area where I live. I've been protesting everytime they have a service. These people go out of their way to protect him. There has to be something in it for them and I don't think it's religon.
They used their kid to baracade me from getting to him this past Sunday.
I've never seen people act like this over a child molester and useing their kid.

Wow that is unbelievable that those people are defending a piece of scum like that. You are doing a great job keeping us informed about this horrible situation.

We had a former n eighbor on our road who let a released convicted pedofreak live with her for a year after his release. The piece of garbage was finally slushed out of the neighborhood.
 
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I cannot believ this !! This so called pastor will "ordain" a piece of human crap pedophile pervert as a minister. The piece of human crap is named Mark Hourigan and he served time starting in 1998 for dodomy of an 11 year old boy.

have we not learned anything from the case of that girl who was held for 18 years. The piece of human crap named Mark Hourigan say that he has gone through sex affender training and can control himself through counciling by others.

Mark Hourigan should not be a minister he should be castrated and then killed.

This is reckless on the part of the church.

His sentence is light because he plead guilty to a lesser offensive. He was charged with sodomizing and intimidating an 11 year old boy. He plea bargained down.

Part of his probation stated he could not work in a church. Now that's all up and he can.

I think it's crazy of this church to ordain him. It's enough to make one give up going there but then I gave up going anywhere where organized religion is to be found. So what the hell do I know.
 
Yeah! And he should be quartered and poked and drowned and we should raise Jeffrey Dahmer from the dead and feed Hourigan to him and kill Jeffrey Dahmer again too! :mad:
And then sent to the Russian Front!!
 
I was at the Worship Center again last night. I talk to the head REV again and ask him to get the child molestor out of his group. And I quote( I will pray for you and your KIND)
My kind, I told him that would be fine ass long as it's not in the same group as the child molestors. He won't make any comments anymore. He must have lawyered up.
 
I want this moster out of my area where I live. I've been protesting everytime they have a service. These people go out of their way to protect him. There has to be something in it for them and I don't think it's religon.
They used their kid to baracade me from getting to him this past Sunday.
I've never seen people act like this over a child molester and useing their kid.

Well there's not much to be done if he's legally free and able to be hired by the church without violating any probation.

I'd quit the church if I were a member there. But you don't seem to be a member there so there's little point in you going out of your way to tar and feather the dude. Look at this way if the guy molests more kids it'll probably be kids he has access to. Kids at the church. We don't get to know where most child molesters are. At least this one has been pegged and tagged and you know his whereabouts. That's something.
 
If I can save one child it is worth my time. Even if the child belongs to this worship center.
 
Sex offender to be ordained 8:56

Why is the time listed?
 
I am all for forgiving people, but i do not think it would be wise to let him lead this church, only because it "may" give him access to areas where children are located.
As for his plea bargaining, it's unfortunate. I believe he should have served more time than he did. That being said, this man has been punished. (We can argue if he got the right punishment all day long, but the fact remains he served his time.) None of us here can know if this man has truly changed, not one. This man will have to live with what he did for the rest of his life, I believe that is punishment enough. I believe people like this man need help either medically or through psychiatrists and psychologists. I do not believe it is our job to hound this person out of various areas. ( I am not defending his actions just stating what I believe should be done to prevent people like this man from doing the crimes in the first place.)

It is very unfortunate that the man did not try and get help for his problem earlier on in his life, he has no excuse for this, or his actions. He should have been sentenced much longer.

I am a major in criminal justice and I can tell you the reason he more than likely got a plea bargain is because most prisons are so full they have no more room for prisoners. We have too many people in prisons for drug offenses and the like and no room to house the real dangerous people like this man. We as a society have only ourselves to blame for the system not being able to take this person in and allowing plea bargaining to take place, it is a necessary evil.

If by chance we can get this man back into society doing a job where he can make a living or at least have some sort of beneficial impact on society, is that not worth it? Or do we want to run this person out of a town, so he cannot get a job and ends up living under a bridge and has nothing to live for THEREFORE he will recommit a crime? Don't any of you realize by running these people out of towns you are more than likely causing them to do more crime via them not getting a job?

If you truly want people like this off the street, why don't you spend tax payer dollars on mental institutions or on jails and not PRISONS. Why don't we as a society look where our money is spent? We have no room in our prisons, it is horrendous conditions inside the correctional system. If you throw criminals into a room with other criminals for 15 or 20 years? What the hell do you think will come out? A changed person? Hell no.

If you truly want people like this locked up, start understanding what you vote for, don't just give more money to the prison system and think it's gonna fix all this crap.

Oh, and I'm not personally a Christian, but I was raised as one. If anyone or anything can fix this person, would that not be God? Surely the only person who truly can forgive and heal a sinner is God? I thought Christians were suppose to be Christ-like? I highly doubt Christ would say "WOOO WEE BOYS LETS GO GET THE ROPE AND HANG DIS HERE BOY THAT WILL BE A GOOD OLE TIME HOOO WEE." No. He would more than likely try and help this person. Anyway, the guy already ****ed up by doing this stupid ****, so more than likely he will live with that, so be it. But, I do believe these people should try and help themselves and go talk to psychs. Or take some medication... it just irritates me so much.
 
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Sex offender to be ordained
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

I cannot believ this !! This so called pastor will "ordain" a piece of human crap pedophile pervert as a minister. The piece of human crap is named Mark Hourigan and he served time starting in 1998 for dodomy of an 11 year old boy.

have we not learned anything from the case of that girl who was held for 18 years. The piece of human crap named Mark Hourigan say that he has gone through sex affender training and can control himself through counciling by others.

Mark Hourigan should not be a minister he should be castrated and then killed.

Could you please link to your position of the film maker who is being extradited for raping a 13 y/o 31 years ago?
 
Could you please link to your position of the film maker who is being extradited for raping a 13 y/o 31 years ago?

PARIS, The titilating details of what Romani Polanski did to the underaged girl are not needed here. It it sufficient to say that he raped her statutorially!!!

Search is your friend.
 
The time? Thats when he was ordained.
 
Well the Episcopal Church is split over letting gay priest in. So why not this?
 
The Episcopalians are Anglicans, who are in turn merely Catholics who accommodate Henry VIII's divorces. :shrug:
And who was going to speak out against Henry, since he was the church owner? Why do you think the Pilgrims came here?
 
And who was going to speak out against Henry, since he was the church owner? Why do you think the Pilgrims came here?
Virgin was offering double airmiles?
 
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