Is it time to ban church in the US?

In the last 3 weeks alone, 30 religious figures, mostly youth pastors, have been arrested for sex crimes involving children.
Since there is such a huge discourse around banning or restricting things to help protect children, (except guns of course) we should just ban church services outright, right? It is clear that the people who attend and lead them are the biggest threat to children in America (except guns of course).
You’d assume that republicans would be in favor of this ban, but they are more interested in projecting their own tendencies onto drag queens and lgbt people.

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Imsleepy · 31-35

I feel like the point of this post went over a few heads.

I don’t want to ban church. I was being sarcastic. It was meant to show the ridiculousness and hypocrisy of conservatives.

They want to accuse the lgbt community for being pedophilic groomers and push legislation to try and strip us of our rights, when in reality they are the ones guilty of this. They don’t care about the safety of children. They are more concerned with lowering the legal age to marry and fuck them.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@Imsleepy There's no good reason for a drag queen to talk to a child in their drag character nor some random adult to talk to a child about their sexuality. A youth pastor's purpose is an innocent one unlike those. That's why it's not a hypocrisy

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Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@Imsleepy that's nice but not a refutation

Torsten · 36-40, M

@Jackaloftheazuresand dont expect any sign of intelligence come out of this one.

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@Imsleepy I completely agree with you

GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M

@Jackaloftheazuresand never judge if someone is good just because of there title. Anyone can get a title.

CestManan · 46-50, F

@Jackaloftheazuresand I can agree that there is not any reason for a drag queen to be at a school, I mean it makes the TG community look bad. I am definitely not against LGBT cause I am one but I also do not see the purpose of inviting trouble.

On the other hand - exposing kids to religion probably is not a good idea either. How do they explain it to the kids about people going to hell if they are not religious?

I remember when I was about 10 I was in some religious ed class and they acted like God was so great. But then I happened upon some church pamphlet somewhere and on the front was a drawing of people burning in hell. I wondered why they didn't bring THAT part up in school.

And not that this matters much but the religious ed teacher was some crotchety old c*ntwad. B*tch had the same facial expression as "Grumpy cat".

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@GuyWithOpinions It's the title on its own that informs the virtue, we aren't talking about whether any individual is good.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@CestManan I don't see the guidance of religion as similar because sexuality is instinctual, there need not be any instruction whereas children need role models on conduct within society. And the journey of sexuality is a personal one that has no effect on another person unlike how we live our lives outwardly where the youth pastor would be concerned.

CestManan · 46-50, F

@Jackaloftheazuresand I think I got, some of that.

DarkHeaven ·

@Imsleepy you’re not wrong.