It does need to stop! I heard just yesterday about a youth pastor (married with three children) having "an affair" with a sixteen year old member of his youth group. She is just turned seventeen, legal age in her state for consent, so told her parents.
The kicker is: according to my friend, the church is covering this up and treating it like "an affair". The youth pastor was fired, but not prosecuted! This teenage girl is being treated like the "other women" instead of the victim of a sexual predator!
I told my friend about the Tina Anderson case, and she is sending a link to the people involved in counseling this couple- the ones treating this as "an affair" instead of as a sexual predator preying on minor children (and who knows how many others there have been or will be if he is not stopped by the law?).
Unbelievable. No wonder young people are leaving the church in droves. Get real.
|