{"id":60713,"date":"2014-04-16T08:54:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/the-sexual-predator-church"},"modified":"2014-04-16T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:54:01","slug":"the-sexual-predator-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/04\/the-sexual-predator-church","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Sexual Predator’ Church"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Randy Fraser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moving from the sublime to the ridiculous, I cannot avoid commenting on the latest piece of religious nonsense, in which a convicted sex offender has formed a church with some 200 enthusiastic congregants endorsed by a bevy of fellow pastors.<\/p>\n

Former Pilgrim Baptist Church clergyman Randy Fraser – who committed statutory rape with a minor (who was a member of his church), and whose wife admitted on the witness stand that she and her husband had sex frequently in the church office – is now pastor of the brand new Palms of Victory Kingdom Ministry.<\/p>\n

Fraser was sentenced in 2011 to a three-year jail term for abusing his position of trust by having sex in the church with a 16-year-old girl he was counselling. At the time, Magistrate Carolita Bethel said she didn\u2019t believe a word Fraser said.<\/p>\n

During a subsequent appeal against his sentence, Justice Anita Allen described Fraser as a \u201csexual predator\u201d whose behaviour was \u201ccontemptible\u201d and deserving of the “severest condemnation”. On the other hand, Fraser thought his treatment was \u201cunreasonable and unjust\u201d.<\/p>\n

After he was released from prison last November, Pilgrim Baptist Church trustee board chairman Renee Glinton said Fraser was unrepentant and asked, “how can you allow a sexual predator to come back and lead your church?\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, apparently there are many Bahamians – including clergymen – who have no qualms about that.<\/p>\n

If Fraser had any conscience or remorse he would not be referring to his re-emergence in a pastoral role as a \u201cvictory\u201d. And if the Christian Council had the slightest connection with reality they would be loudly condemning this blatant attempt to make wrong right.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Christian Council is interested only in hanging, homosexuality and gambling. They have strong black and white views on these issues, but are ambivaldent about “pastoral misjudgement”.<\/p>\n

By:\u00a0 Larry Smith<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nSource:\u00a0 Bahama Pundit<\/a>
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If the Christian Council had the slightest connection with reality they would be loudly condemning Randy Fraser’s blatant attempt to make wrong right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":32802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[93,31,2019,171,163],"class_list":["post-60713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-pervert","tag-religion-2","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}