Holy Crap In the Name of Jesus
Houston’s own pastor Stephen Bratton of Grace Family Baptist Church was a loud and outspoken critic of any attempt in Texas to following the constitutional right of a woman to have an abortion.
Honey, that man practically stalked the capitol building and any pulpit he could find to save the lives of “the unborn.” He was zealot and a Christian soldier.
Bratton recently testified in support of failed House Bill 896 that would have abolished abortions in Texas and opened up the possibility that prosecutors could charge a woman who undergoes the procedure with criminal homicide. The offense can be punishable by the death penalty under current Texas law.
So, as you would suspect, he was abusing children.
Bratton told his wife about the abuse in May, and admitted to his co-pastors at Grace Family Baptist Church that same day that he had “sinned in grievous ways,” according to court documents.
This guy joins a long string of hypocrites hiding behind rightwing theology.
Any time a member of the Morality Police is going on about something, it’s a sure bet they’re doing it.
1Another self righteous example of “Do and I say, not as I do”. Frequently seen in religious and political organizations.
2Equally appalling is that his church crowd will forgive him because he confessed and probably swore he wouldn’t do it again. He joins the long list of disgusting, hypocritical right wing pulpit pounders who do that which they inveigh against — and, go right on with their lives…Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Andy Savage, the Catholic Church, Robert Coy, Paige Patterson, Bill Hybels…the list goes on and on and on.
3Seriously, I don’t there is a single one of us at the beauty salon who is surprised.
4RW nutjobs are forever yapping the slippery slope about social issues. It’s obviously projection. Their forced birtherism leads to their raping and pedophilia. Only “surprise” is that ‘pastor’ Steve didn’t hit their holy trifecta of rape, pedophilia and incest.
5Mike@1, that’s called projection, and the first defense used by lying, cheating, vicious scum-suckers.
PKM@5, What makes you think he didn’t?
Hey, before we toss this jack-leg into the blazing pits of hell, we remove the tax exemption on his church? Obviously he’s been using it to 1) preach politics from the pulpit, and 2) Used it for a safe hunting ground.
6According to the linked article:
“An investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio-Express News found more than 700 people — mostly children — had been victimized by hundreds of Southern Baptist church leaders since 1998.”
Well, this explains why they’re so gung-ho to keep women, and even children, from getting abortions when the pregnancy is due to rape or incest.
Telling the clinic rape or incest happened could trigger an investigation — and we can’t have THAT!
7Is Texas getting more like Alabama??
8His treatment of the born a great failure, maybe he thought the unborn would give him less trouble.
9Funny thing, our Pastor was asking Sunday about what Disciples in the Church should do and I said,” Actions, not words. A small Church he incorporated those words in his Sermon..
Actions, not words fit that sorry excuse of a Pastor!
10twocrows, I had a dear, sweet classmate who revealed after his death from AIDs in about 1970 that he had been molested by a Baptist “youth leader” at church camp years before his death. I think his parents blamed that for “turning him gay.” I know for sure that 1998 was just a shot in the dark for a year to start counting.
11I left the Baptist Church a few years ago. All the Pastor ranted about was abortion, gays and love of guns.
He was a part of that old bunch that fought in the Southern Baptist Convention.
The young finally won out after the Leader was caught molesting. They threw him out but the change was not enough for me.
The Church I am in preaches Following the words of Jesus. Love They Neighbor. If they change I am gone too.
If they can back Trump, excuse his excesses that place is not for me!
Besides, my language is becoming atrocious when I hear Trump or any of his flunkies. I am much too old to be saying bad words!
12I don’t suspect these types any more, it’s a given. I stopped keeping track 15 years ago.
13Churches are social spots for the rationally handicapped, and elementary religious education is the ramp at the door.
We are taught to choose personal comfort over rational decision, and it shows in our inability to choose well. Trump is the result.
14Maggie@4, I don’t see how anybody, anywhere, can be surprised by this.
15Mr. charles phillips@6, you’re right. That’s assuming facts not in evidence. Rev Steve may have done the holy trifecta.
16Speaking of hypocritical christianist bigots has Bubba Jr. received any of that child porn alex jones is spewing forth to opposition lawyers?
Article speaks of him hiding porn files in the midst of large files sent out under rules of discovery.
Betcha he was hoping no one would notice untill one of his “crack” investigators “discovered” it during trail.
Hope this adds some criminal charges to his case.
ps Am I the only one who confuses glenn beck and alex jones?
17Both chubby widdle boy/men with rotund face, over active tear ducts and a full throated embrace of lunacy.
K –
There are many similarities, but a few solid differences.
Glenn Beck is essentially a performer. Though he can talk a pretty whacko game and spin conspiracy theories with the best of them, he’s mostly in it for the money. His occasional conversions to more or less rational behavior with no apparent effort confirm that he’s mostly just a guy who found a lucrative gig pimping the slack jawed contingent. Sure beats workin’.
Jones, OTOH, probably doesn’t believe most of the garbage he spews, but he’s a genuwine psycho. Though the money is appealing, and he’s made an unconscionable income spewing his moronic poison, he’ll also happily howl at the moon for free. He has a history of violence and abuse, and should be treated as the dangerous creature that he is. “This American Life” did a couple of programs on him. I’ll try to find the link.
18So let me put this in the most basest of terms. You have to have your child so I can f@ck it in 3 years. Thank yew Jesues.
19Continuing from @18: This American Life podcast #670 – Beware the Jabberwock. The high school stuff starts about minute 40:00.
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21Mahalo
K – de nada.
22Another in the LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG line of self righteous bigots masquerading as God’s messengers. Regardless of what transpired at the SBC convention this week, don’t look for any significant changes in their treatment of the abused nor in their transparency regarding such-see Baylor continual hush money coverup of rapes. And I’ll just leave this here for the record:
23http://stopbaptistpredators.org/index.htm
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Mr. Bratton should be getting appointed to that Trump WH Prayer Group any day now, he’ll fit right in. Comrade Führer Donnei has a ‘thing’ about teenage girls too, doesn’t he?
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