{"id":3293,"date":"2016-02-29T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2016-02-29T17:05:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:05:51","slug":"a-familiar-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3293","title":{"rendered":"A familiar story"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wartburg Watch<\/a> has established a Go Fund Me<\/a> page for some victims of church abuse. I don’t have any firsthand knowledge of what’s afoot, so I can’t personally vouch for any of this, but I trust the Wartburg Ladies and the story sure has a familiar sound.<\/p>\n

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Billy was sexually assaulted by a member of his church who pled guilty<\/span> to the crime. Shauna, his mom, who cleans houses for a living lost a number of clients<\/span> when the church they attended did not support his mother’s efforts to provide a safe environment for Billy. <\/p>\n

Those people affiliated with the church<\/span> told Shauna they didn’t want her to clean for them anymore. This has left Shauna and her son unable to provide for their basic needs.<\/p>\n

Billy and Shauna were the victims of abuse<\/span> from the molester and their own church<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ask any police officer, journalist, social worker, doctor, lawyer — anybody with firsthand professional experience of it — and every single one of them will tell you the exact same thing: When a congregation learns of this kind of thing, it all-but-invariably rallies around the offender and drives off the victim. You won’t encounter a half-dozen exceptions to the rule in a lifetime.<\/p>\n

You can always count on the Godly to kick somebody who is down. Help if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wartburg Watch has established a Go Fund Me page for some victims of church abuse. I don’t have any firsthand knowledge of what’s afoot, so I can’t personally vouch for any of this, but I trust the Wartburg Ladies … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}