Today’s digest of misbehaving Holy Men. I should add that these are only the ones who make the newspaper and are found by Google News search.
- Joshua O’Bannion
An Arizona man was indicted Friday on suspicion of molesting two teens while a youth pastor in Parma.
- David J. Fogderud
A pastor convicted by a jury of obstructing an officer was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation and 100 hours of community service.
David J. Fogderud, 66, of 3545 S. Riverside Drive, Beloit, was arrested in August 2007 on suspicion of not cooperating with officers questioned him about an attempted kidnapping report in Janesville.
- Paul Stoot
Stoot, 46, of Everett, was jailed for investigation of obstruction of justice at the scene of a fire after he allegedly failed to follow the instructions of a Snohomish County sheriff’s sergeant.
His supporters, including national civil rights leaders, claim the pastor of Greater Trinity Missionary Baptist Church was humiliated, unlawfully arrested, harassed and falsely accused of being drunk.
- Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro
Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, wrote in his book “The King’s Torah” that even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to the nation.
Shapiro based the majority of his teachings on passages quoted from the Bible, to which he adds his opinions and beliefs.
“It is permissable to kill the Righteous among Nations even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” he wrote, adding: “If we kill a Gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments – because we care about the commandments – there is nothing wrong with the murder.”
- Father Bernard Cloutier
Father Bernard Cloutier will stand alone in a Sudbury courtroom today to be sentenced for his sexual abuse three decades ago of a group of altar boys who had idolized him.
Missing from the prisoner’s dock, but present in spirit, will be Bishop Gerard Dionne – named as a culprit in a rare judicial finding that the Roman Catholic Church intervened to forestall criminal charges being laid against Father Cloutier in 1983.
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