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savedinflorida2015^ View Profile History	pastor jack schaap released from jail Posted : 6 Feb, 2023 04:45 PM Pastor Jack Schaap, who groomed a teenage girl for sex, is out of prison The First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana used to be one of the largest Independent Fundamentalist Baptist churches in the country when Schaap became its leader in 2001. It had previously been led by a man named Jack Hyles, who helped the church attract upwards of 20,000 people per week by promoting his brand of fundamentalism; Schaap had married Hyles’ daughter. (More recently, “New IFB” preachers like Steven Anderson and Jonathan Shelley have taken the baton when it comes to fire-and-brimstone preaching, even celebrating the murder of LGBTQ people and calling for the government to execute anyone guilty of sodomy.) All of that came to a screeching halt in 2012 when the church suddenly announced that Schaap had been fired “due to a sin that has caused him to forfeit his right to be our pastor.” They didn’t specify what had happened, but it didn’t take long for the details to come out. Schaap confessed that he had had sex with a 16-year-old girl who was a member of the church. Because 16 was the age of consent in Indiana, it wasn’t technically considered rape. So the church fired him on grounds of adultery. Making matters worse was the fact that the girl had been seeing Schaap for counseling. It was in one of those sessions where he first kissed her. He later told her that having sex was “exactly what Christ desires for us.” And then, when facing prison time, he blamed “his prostate, exhaustion from 100-hour work weeks, and the mental strain of financial difficulties that forced him to lay off church employees.” Prosecutors later said, as a way of rejecting his excuses, that “the only way [Schaap] could have been working 100-hour weeks during the time-period investigated by the government is if he’s counting the many hours he dedicated to grooming and sexually abusing the victim.” Post Reply
Moonlight7 View Profile History	pastor jack schaap released from jail Posted : 7 Feb, 2023 10:29 AM Because of fallen Mankind, there are Many acts of Sin. Sin takes many forms. The Catholic church still employ Priests after they've been convicted of child molesting. They are just moved to different Church. Post Reply