For those who say that I am too hard on the Catholic Church, this post will underscore that I give equal opportunity to all Christo-fascist hypocrites regardless of the religious affiliation. Via Joe By God's "This Week in Holy Crimes" an Obama hating, gay hating anti-immigrant GOP tea party type is identified as the "winner of the week" for his arrest for sexual molesting 10 year old girl. The story is interesting not only because it refutes the far right's efforts to depict gays as the only sexual molesters of minors, but also because the individual arrested, Kris Lounsbury (pictured at right), had been a GOP candidate for Congress who failed to defeat the incumbent Democrat. Among the other things that Lounsbury supported were the following: abolishing the income tax, deporting illegal immigrants, abolishing the United Nations, and fighting LGBT rights laws. In January 2009 he posted a recording of a sermon calling for imprecatory prayer curses against President Obama and in a linked clip, Lounsbury rails against the repeal of DADT, saying that "you have no idea how vicious, these homosexuals, can be." Once again, it is the incredible hypocrisy of folks like Lounsbury that justifies showing their true malignant natures to as many as possible. Here are highlights from the Spectrum & Daily News:*
Additional child sex abuse charges were filed against a lay pastor at Living Word Christian Fellowship who also ran an unsuccessful bid to unseat Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, four years ago in the race for U.S. House of Representatives. St. George Police Officer James Schafer said Kris Lounsbury, 62, was arrested Thursday on the new charges.
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He said a 10-year-old girl confided in her father that Lounsbury, 62, allegedly had touched and fondled her over an extended period of time."The evidence brought forward substantiated the claims," Schafer said.
Lounsbury was booked on charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, both first-degree felonies, Schafer said. Lounsbary was already charged with two counts of rape, two counts of aggravated sex abuse of a child and two counts of forcible sexual abuse.
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Why is it that it is ALWAYS the family values far right Christians/GOP base types who are the sexual perverts - even as they seek to malign normal gay Americans who would NEVER even contemplate doing the weird sh*t that is the norm for the GOP hypocrites?
Additional child sex abuse charges were filed against a lay pastor at Living Word Christian Fellowship who also ran an unsuccessful bid to unseat Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, four years ago in the race for U.S. House of Representatives. St. George Police Officer James Schafer said Kris Lounsbury, 62, was arrested Thursday on the new charges.
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He said a 10-year-old girl confided in her father that Lounsbury, 62, allegedly had touched and fondled her over an extended period of time."The evidence brought forward substantiated the claims," Schafer said.
Lounsbury was booked on charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, both first-degree felonies, Schafer said. Lounsbary was already charged with two counts of rape, two counts of aggravated sex abuse of a child and two counts of forcible sexual abuse.
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Why is it that it is ALWAYS the family values far right Christians/GOP base types who are the sexual perverts - even as they seek to malign normal gay Americans who would NEVER even contemplate doing the weird sh*t that is the norm for the GOP hypocrites?
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The Richmonder: "Republican Gomorrah" by Max Blumenthal
The Spectrum & Daily News - Utah July 24, 2009
Lay pastor charged with child abuse
by Kevin Jenkins
ST. GEORGE - A lay pastor who ran a failed bid to unseat U.S. House of Representatives incumbent Jim Matheson in 2006 made an initial appearance in 5th District Court on Thursday on charges of rape and sexual abuse of a child.
Kris Lounsbury, age 62, of St. George is charged with two counts of rape, two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and two counts of forcible sexual abuse.
Lounsbury ran for the 2nd Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives but was defeated by State Representative LaVar Christensen for the Republican nomination to oppose Matheson.
Lounsbury was also the founding pastor of Living Word Christian Fellowship in St. George. He resigned his position as pastor about a year and a half ago, said current pastor John Sullivan.
Lounsbury then became an elder of the church, but stepped down from that position about four weeks ago as a consequence of the allegations, Sullivan said.
"It's a situation that he has repented before the congregation about," Sullivan said.
Sullivan also said Lounsbury is engaged in ongoing counseling with Sullivan and the pastor of another fellowship.
St. George Police Department Officer James Schafer said a complaint was submitted to the Washington County Attorney's Office following allegations on June 19 that three girls were abused by Lounsbury.
"It looks like the charges were enhanced because the suspect was in a position of special trust, which means he was either a relative or in (another) position of special trust with the victim," Schafer said.
A woman who identified herself as the mother of the alleged victims said she confronted Lounsbury after her 15-year-old daughter reported numerous cases of abuse.
The woman said her other daughters told her similar stories and that their friends also said Lounsbury had molested them.
"When my daughter first told me I was skeptical, then when I was talking to my other daughters and they were saying the same thing I was just blown away," the woman said. The Spectrum is not identifying the woman because of her relationship to the alleged victims.
"My main concern is that he is prosecuted correctly and that if there are any more victims out there, that they come forward," she said.
Lounsbury's attorney, Larry Meyers, said the case is still in the early stages.
"We haven't got the discovery yet. Once we get that we'll talk to the prosecutor," Meyers said.
Discovery is the process by which attorneys review evidence gathered to back up the charges against a suspect.
Meyers asked Judge G. Rand Beacham on Thursday to recall a warrant issued against Lounsbury and to allow him to remain out of jail on his own recognizance with an order not to contact the alleged victims, in accordance with an agreement between the defense and the prosecutor for the case.
Meyers said Lounsbury is well known in the community and should not be considered a flight risk.
Beacham accepted the arrangement and set a roll call hearing for Aug. 10.
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