{"id":4423,"date":"2016-08-13T07:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T11:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2016-08-13T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T11:34:20","slug":"your-tax-dollars-at-work-ctd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4423","title":{"rendered":"Your tax dollars at work, <i>ctd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?page_id=4217\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to learn why the privileged tax status of churches must end.\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/church_sign.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\"><\/a>The occasional round-up of repellent behavior that your tax dollars subsidize.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salisburypost.com\/2016\/08\/13\/former-kannapolis-pastor-charged-attempted-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Former Kannapolis pastor charged with attempted murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rowan authorities confirmed a former pastor charged by Mecklenburg authorities for the attempted murder of two people was arrested in Rowan County earlier this week.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texarkanagazette.com\/news\/texarkana\/story\/2016\/aug\/12\/local-pastor-arrested-new-sexual-assault-charges\/635581\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local pastor arrested on new sexual-assault charges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Texarkana pastor charged earlier this month with two counts of sexual assault involving a teen girl was arrested a second time Friday.<\/p>\n<p>David Wayne Farren, 41, was booked into the Miller County jail Friday on a charge of second-degree felony sexual assault and a misdemeanor charge of mandatory reporter failing to report sexual abuse, jail records show. The most recent arrest for sexual assault involves a different alleged victim than involved in three counts of first-degree sexual assault for which Farren was arrested Aug. 3.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/825517\/suit-filed-against-former-priest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Abuse suit filed against former priest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A New Mexico native has filed a lawsuit alleging he was sexually abused in the 1970s by a former priest who turned up in Morocco earlier this year, more than a quarter century after he vanished from his Albuquerque parish.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lodinews.com\/news\/article_baa95f34-611e-11e6-a579-0fc03006e769.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lawsuit accuses Stockton priest of sexual harassment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Allegations of sexual harassment have surfaced against Monsignor Lawrence McGovern, the pastor of Presentation Catholic Parish in Stockton.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys at Manly, Stewart and Finaldi, a Southern California law firm, filed suit on Thursday in San Joaquin County Superior Court on behalf of a victim who alleges that McGovern sent sexually explicit pictures to him. The victim was working as a pool maintenance contractor for the pastor and also alleges that McGovern ended the victim\u2019s employment in retaliation for reporting the behavior to police.<\/ul>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The occasional round-up of repellent behavior that your tax dollars subsidize. Former Kannapolis pastor charged with attempted murder Rowan authorities confirmed a former pastor charged by Mecklenburg authorities for the attempted murder of two people was arrested in Rowan County &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/4423"}],"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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}