Strangely, bigots aren’t interested in protecting children from the actual predators…
Many years ago, Dan Savage started posted a weekly Youth Pastor Watch on the blog of the Seattle Alt-weekly newspaper, The Stranger. As he explained at the time, because religious bigots were arguing against gay rights and the legal recognition of civil unions (then later marriage equality) with wild claims about how children needed to be protected from gay people. So Dan proved, week after week, that a simple Google news alert would produce new cases pastors-usually youth pastors-being arrested or charged with sexually assaulting children and teens in their congregations. Sometimes other crimes, but that one happens a lot.
And if you follow the news, you know that it still happens...
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And if you follow the news, you know that it still happens...
(The rest of this post that collects and comments on some links that I've left out of recent Friday Five posts is at FontFolly.Net.)
This entry was originally posted at https://typographer.dreamwidth.org/1142468.html. Please comment there using OpenID.