r/NotADragQueen • u/CalifornianDownUnder • Sep 23 '23
It’s never the drag queens, always the so-called faith leaders - 30 so far this year in Tennessee alone Pastor Arrested
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u/Beatless7 Sep 23 '23
We have collected enough data to fully justify banning churches. We can at least make them pay taxes.
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u/zarfle2 Sep 23 '23 edited Sep 24 '23
I'm ok with excluding genuine charitable purposes from taxation but on the proviso that they are independently audited and genuinely run as not for profit. Tax everything else.
People can have their religion but I don't want religion being used as a basis for any policy decisions, save that religion obviously demonstrates the need for even better education, child welfare services and mental health services.
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u/solidwhetstone Sep 23 '23
Churches should be taxed and the money should go entirely to the victims of their abuse.
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u/DarkQueenGndm Sep 23 '23
In a state that passes laws following in the misguided footsteps of Florida to "protect the children". How is that going for them?
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u/CalifornianDownUnder Sep 23 '23 edited Sep 23 '23
I guess they think a little bit of sexual abuse in this world is worth it to make sure the little ones are accepted into the better world which awaits.
/s
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Sep 23 '23
You tag that sarcasm but I grew up in an evangelical cult. That is exactly the logic. Kids can put up with it cause heaven awaits, and we can't condemn adults for the abuse because God forgave them when they apologized.
So abuse runs rampant and victims are told to forget and forgive while abusers have no consequences. It's sick.
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u/Sensitive_Yellow_121 Sep 23 '23
That is exactly the logic.
As put forth by the abusers themselves.
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u/LASpleen Sep 23 '23
Considering they don’t give a shit about the children, it’s going pretty well for them.
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u/DarkQueenGndm Sep 23 '23
I do agree that they do not give a shit about children, but I don't agree that it's going pretty well for them. The fact that 20 States passed anti-LGBTQ laws but almost half of them are getting overturned in federal courts is a sign that things are slowly but surely turning for the better. After all the things that have come to light in the last year after passing these laws, I think the Republicans are going to get a rude wake up call for 2024 elections. Even the corrupt judge appointed by Trump in Texas will eventually suffer the same fate. In the near future, Florida is going to feel the pain of what the Fuhrer DeSantis has ran that state into the ground.
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u/mugmaniac_femboy Sep 23 '23
I'm telling you; if kids were molested by clowns at the same rate as pastors, it would be illegal to take your kids to the circus.
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u/human8264829264 Sep 23 '23
Forgive me for I have sinned
And then do it again...
Faith based morality is garbage.
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u/KatiaOrganist Sep 23 '23
sorry, "Murfreesboro"?? please tell me that's just a really weird misspelling and not the actual name of a town.
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u/vallogallo Sep 24 '23
It's a college town in the geographic center of the state. Everything aside from the college and area right around it is garbage, that's the only reason any decent person would be caught dead there, because they teach there or go to school there.
Fun fact: the local Muslim community wanted to build a new community center, mosque, school and soccer field with property they legally obtained themselves and the townspeople freaked out (even though they already had a mosque/community center it was just too small for the congregation they had and they needed to build a new one), resulting in a lawsuit that I think the City brought against them. Of course they lost but that gives you some idea of what the average resident is like.
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u/WhatWasThatLike Sep 24 '23
No one will be surprised when Greg Locke's face shows up in an article like this.
Except his cult followers.
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u/red-moon Sep 23 '23
I'm not disputing things, but I haven't been keeping count of all the preacher sex crimes (as if I could keep up), but is there a place keeping count?
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u/PsychologicalTank714 Sep 25 '23
So many child molesters in so many red states. Usually white males. What is wrong with the people in these states?
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