Jury Gives FLDS Member 6 Years

Texas:  Keith Dutson Jr., 25, is the youngest member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to be sentenced out of the seven who have undergone prosecution on evidence seized in the raid on the FLDS-owned Yearning for Zion Ranch in Schleicher County. Dutson was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $10,000 on a conviction for sexual assault of a child.

“Keith believed he was a part of a lawful wedding,” FLDS spokesman Willie Jessop said of the union between Dutson when he was 20 and the victim when she was 15.

Jessop said the state is persecuting religion.

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All the criminal trials have been based on allegations that older men who already are married have taken underage girls as “celestial” brides as part of the FLDS practice of polygamy.

Priest Charged With Molestation Bailed Out By Parishioners

California: A Roman Catholic priest accused of felony sex crimes against a 12-year-old boy has been bailed out by a group of parishioners who believe in his innocence.

Jose Alejandro Castillo pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under age 14 and one count of forcible lewd and lascivious acts with a child under age 14.

Prosecutors say Castillo molested the boy two years ago, and Ontario police say they suspect he molested at least two other teens.
 
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Hundreds of people affiliated with the Coalition to Exonerate Fr. Alex raised the $24,000 in bail money, said Ted Campos, director of the organization.

Pastor Gets 4 Years For Sex With Girl

Wales: A married minister was jailed for four years yesterday for having sex in his church with a 15-year-old girl.

Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard how Pastor Ceri John Rees, 30, quoted from the Bible to seduce the teenager, telling her “it was perfectly normal to have a union of the flesh on a physical level”. But the married father-of-three omitted a passage which referred the “union” to be between man and wife.

The crime came to light on December 27, 2009, when Rees confessed to the nine-month affair.

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Rees had pleaded guilty to 14 counts including five of sexual activity with a child and seven of taking or making indecent images. His wife has filed for divorce.

Minister Charged With Raping Girl

North Carolina: A 61-year-old Lexington minster has been charged with raping an 11-year-old girl.

Pennsylvania State Police said Rev. Walter Donald Bradshaw and another woman committed the crime at a motel in Bedford Township, Pa., sometime between 2007 and 2008.

Bradshaw has been charged with rape, rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault, statutory sexual assault, indecent assault, indecent exposure, corruption of minors, sexual assault and unlawful contact with a minor.

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The woman is believed to be the girl's mother but wasn't being identified to protect the identity of the victim. She is being charged with sexual exploitation of children, unlawful contact with a minor, endangering the welfare of children, criminal solicitation to commit perjury and corruption of minors.

Pastor Steven Anderson Is A Great American

Pastor Steven Anderson, who prayed for the death of President Obama and said

“If you’re a homosexual, I hope you get brain cancer like Ted Kennedy”,

explains why he would never vote for a woman.



This is the same great American that was beaten and tazed after refusing to exit his car and show identification to border patrol agents.

Woman Sentenced To Death For Blasphemy

Pakistan: Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routine harassment and discrimination.

The court heard she had been working as a farmhand in fields with other women, when she was asked to fetch drinking water. Some of the other women – all Muslims – refused to drink the water as it had been brought by a Christian and was therefore "unclean". The incident was forgotten until a few days later when Mrs Bibi said she was set upon by a mob. The police were called and took her to a police station for her own safety.

Shahzad Kamran, of the Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan, said: "The police were under pressure from this Muslim mob, including clerics, asking for Asia to be killed because she had spoken ill of the Prophet Mohammed.
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After the police saved her life they then registered a blasphemy case against her. She had been held in isolation for more than a year before being sentenced to death on Monday.

John Shimkus On Climate Change

From the March 25, 2009 hearing of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. Rep John Shimkus, a climate change skeptic, spouts bible verses as evidence that climate change is false.

 "The earth will end only when God declares its time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth."

Mr Shimkus, who has served in Congress since 1997, is seeking the leadership of the Energy and Commerce committee, which has a wide-ranging portfolio covering energy policy, environmental initiatives and public health.



In May 2007, he compared the Iraq war to a baseball game between his "beloved" St Louis Cardinals and the "much despised" Chicago Cubs.

In 2009 he walked out as President Barack Obama delivered a speech to a joint session of the House and the Senate.