Deep Thoughts: Voyeur Mathew Porter sentenced

Friday, August 22, 2008

Voyeur Mathew Porter sentenced

Former Baptist youth pastor Mathew Porter was sentenced to a insignificant four months in jail. Porter was the youth pastor at Bethel Baptist Church in Ellenton, Florida. Porter secretly video taped girls aged 12 to 16 at his home while they changed in his bathroom.

Porter pled guilty to his crime. Before all you theists get misty eyed, he only did so after the judge refused to throw out the video tape evidence of his crime. He plead guilt to avoid a nine year prison sentence. He is a fraud and hypocrite.

Watch close people. A few years from now Porter could turn up as a youth pastor at your local Baptist church. The Southern Baptist Convention does nothing to prevent this. They don't care about your children.

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Elaine · 868 weeks ago

~Watch close people. A few years from now Porter could turn up as a youth pastor at your local Baptist church.~

There really ought to be a database or info clearing house of some sort for this very purpose. Of course, devout deniers won't bother to use it...

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Carolyn Ann · 868 weeks ago

Remember that pastor who argued that the Baptists weren't a confederation? It was with that Lubbock, TX thing awhile back. Well, he said the same thing on my blog a little later - they can't do anything, because they're not a confederation.

I told him that simply wasn't good enough. And it isn't. I'll be surprised if he doesn't crop up, again, in a few years.

Carolyn Ann

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Billy · 868 weeks ago

I would never even begin to excuse the behavior of this young man. I cannot even begin to image the pain that the families involved are going through. What he did was horrible and having gone though the due process of law, he is now paying his debt to society (though he received a controversial sentence)...What I find interesting is that the same vicious, judgmental disposition in condemning this individual on a personal level is found in both theistic and non-theistic circles. It is as though this man's life is now permanently ruined and people on both sides of the aisles are going to see to his condemnation. What happened to condemning the action through the due process of law without totally condemning the individual on a personal level? While I am not an advocate of unaccountable grace or forgiveness (and all that goes along with spiritualizing such things), and though I do not hold to any particular religious perspective (agnostic), I sincerely hope that this young man is able to find restoration that will enable him return to a balanced center. This same hope is certainly extended to the children and families involved in this horrible experience as well.

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Mojoey 107p · 867 weeks ago

Holding people accountable is the basis of legal system. You ask, What ever happened to condemning the action? I condemn the action too, but I also hold sex offenders accountable for the rest of their lives. I'm not interested in his balanced center (whatever that means), I am interested in making sure he does on hurt any other children. I would even go so far as to say that this sick fuck has no balanced center. Returning him to it would be impossible.

The true joy of not being a Christian is that I do not have to buy into the politically correct positions Christians take on issues like this one.

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Billy · 867 weeks ago

Your reiteration has made my point.

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