Jojakim Dettmann (Random_layman) Senior Member Username: Random_layman Post Number: 3409 Registered: 5-2006 |
Evidence of abuse: http://vdma.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/two-wels-past ors-and-four-meritless-lawsuits/ Why this is not surprising to me: http://www.reveal.org/development/Churches_that_Ab use.pdf http://www.reveal.org/development/Recovering_from_ Churches_that_Abuse.pdf There are denominations out there which have recognized abuse and have taken steps to resolve it. I am waiting for the WELS do to do the same with this case. One survey indicated 3.1% of churchgoing, adult women have been the target of unwanted clergy sexual misconduct. I personally know one of them. She was very angry. Here is the study: http://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.ph p/96038.pdf Back when I was in school, one of our newer female teachers decided not to be a teacher any more after enduring repeated sexual comments from another teacher who was much older and married. This was an LCMS Lutheran school. She finally complained to her students, including me. 1 out of 24 WELS pastors (4.2%) in a survey published in 1998 admitted to clergy sexual misconduct. The percentage was similar to that for the LCMS, (5 out of 117, or 4.3%). The federal government is currently investigating an ELCA college, Wittenberg University, over concern that they are covering up or discouraging the reporting of rape or sexual harassment type cases. When you see leaders standing up for sexual misconduct by clergy against females, that indicates a broader cultural problem. |
     Rick Strickert (Carlvehse) Senior Member Username: Carlvehse Post Number: 4821 Registered: 10-2003 |
The behavior of James Skorzewski and Timothy Glende, as seen in the excerpts from "Two WELS Pastors and Four Meritless Lawsuits," fits the operative word, "sleaze." Here's James Skorzewski with Mariqueen, a Playboy model and member of a 'music' band, "How to Destroy Angels." Sadly the sleaze is now in Texas. | ||
| Joe Krohn (Jekster) Intermediate Member Username: Jekster Post Number: 255 Registered: 4-2011 |
"I am waiting for the WELS do to do the same with this case." "Sadly the sleaze is now in Texas." I believe the WELS has resolved it in their usual fashion. There is a strain of antinomianism that runs through the WELS that has been perpetuated by a warped view of Objective Justification. It has manifested itself in the South Central District of the WELS. |
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