Thursday, August 26, 2010

The victim asked for leniency

The victim asked for leniency. She was a 15-year-old girl when he rapes took place. Pastor Michael Louis Anthony had sex with her too many times to count. The judge said no to leniency and sentenced him to 5 years in prison. I think the judge nailed it.
"Certain relationships we, as a society, hold sacrosanct," Warning said. "At the top of the list is pastor and parishioner."
Abusing the relationship "cannot be tolerated in any shape or form," he said.
Anthony, 43, formerly was youth pastor at Calvary Chapel church and had a relationship with the girl over two years. He did not make a statement at his sentencing.
One of his supporters, a KLM, posted this comment on my original post.
He did not rape her it was consensual sex. Never did he force her to have sex with him, they BOTH knew what they were doing there fore she is NOT A VICTIM.

In my book when a man takes a child to bed, I see the child as the victim. I think that is the humane and just way to view the situation.

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Mike aka MonolithTMA 58p · 764 weeks ago

Apparently the commenter isn't familiar with statutory rape? Consent doesn't matter.
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ell · 764 weeks ago

The moron commenter must have never been a naive 15 year old CHILD before. I know two women who had consensual sexual relationships with much older men when they were teens. It screwed them up. The Clergy is in a position of trust, just like a teacher. He broke the trust and he broke the law. It's that simple.
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pinko_commie 65p · 764 weeks ago

It's not at all surprising that a religious person might see a consensual relationship between an adult man and a female child as somehow acceptable. It kind of goes along with the whole women are evil temptresses that use sex to make men sin mentality that seems to be a cornerstone of a decent percentage of religions. I'm sure they understand on some level that it's wrong, but I think the willingness to blame the victim (or make the victim into a willing and able participant) smacks of good ol' religious misogyny.
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capn_jammer · 764 weeks ago

I hope the commenter explodes. I don't think he quite understands that a pastor has a certain amount of control over any of his parishioners... When I was religious, my pastor talked me into pleading guilty for a crime I didn't commit because my name was in the papers and he didn't want to "set a bad example for the young people" in that "they need to see that a person who commits a crime will pay for it." When I was a pastor (yes, I still became a pastor after that ordeal), every faithful parishioner in my flock would do just about anything I told them. If I said one day that a woman shouldn't wear pants, the women would immediately switch to dresses, and if I said the next day that God told me personally that he had changed his mind they would all go back to wearing pants without batting an eye. I had quite a few young girls in my flock "fall in love with me," so to speak, although I can say with all honesty that I never took advantage of them... except for when I started changing my mind about religion and used my position to lead some of them out of the church with me.

Religion is a powerful control device. If I had been an evil man, like this pastor and many others like him, I could have easily slept with any girl I wanted and had them completely believing it was concensual.
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Baconsbud 96p · 764 weeks ago

I have to agree with you and a pastor wanting to take advantage can easily convince others that anything that is wrong is their fault not his. Look at how many will defend the wrong doing of pastors. These same people will jump on the bandwagon when someone outside their religion has done wrong in blaming them before they know any facts.

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