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Registered sex offender to be ordained by Louisville church, many concerned

06:22 PM EDT on Friday, September 4, 2009

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(WHAS11) – There is controversy involving a Louisville church ordaining a registered sex offender as a minister.  Why?

Mark Hourigan  He said he loved him.

The church in question serves a predominantly gay and transgendered congregation but one former member says he’s concerned that the new minister could be a threat to the congregation’s children. That seems like an unfair judgment to make about a pedophile, jeez.

The pastor of City of Refuge Worship Center admits it’s the first time he’s heard of a church in the United States ordaining someone who is registered for life as a sex offender but he says the man in question has changed and deserves forgiveness.  Hey, I’m all for forgiveness.  I’ve forgiven the RCC, haven’t I?  It’s clear he’s changed.  He’s hasn’t buggered any 11 year olds, we think, since 1998.  What happens in prison stays in prison. 

But not everyone thinks the church should take that chance. Really?

City of Refuge church proclaims that everyone is welcome and that’s probably what attracted Mark Hourigan. That, the Sunday School and playground.

Hourigan was charged back in 1998 with sodomizing, sexually abusing and intimidating an 11-year-old boy. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, served time in prison and agreed not to serve as a leader in any church where he would have contact with children. But Hourigan’s probation is over, even if his sex offender registration never ends.  That seems harsh.  Shouldn’t buggering an 11 year boy old be kicked down to a misdemeanor or a ticket or something?

 Pastor Randy Meadows says the lord has touched Hourigan’s heart. Bet he left his asshole alone though.

Hourigan now leads praise and worship at the church and will become an ordained minister next Sunday.  Now, color me kooky, but this seems like a violation of his overtly harsh terms of his “lesser charges”.

Former church Deacon Kevin Pickerrell says Hourigan was never straight-forward about his past until he was confronted. Pickerrell left the church after he disagreed with other church leaders over Hourigan’s ordination.  This guy Pickerrell sounds like a real judgmental dickhead.

He fears Hourigan will be tempted by the children who gather at the church for weekly Sunday school and will reoffend. “Maybe he’s gonna fall in that category of the low percentage that doesn’t, but I don’t want to take that chance,” says Pickerrell.  See.

Pastor Meadows says Hourigan will sign an agreement not to minister to children. Oh, OK. And he feels the whole controversy can become a lesson for everyone. I agree, unless of course I’m one of the 8 out of 10 victims of repeat sex offenders.

“God is a loving and forgiving God and I’m doing what he’s telling me to do. Did the 11 year old get a say in the “forgiveness process”? And if that’s not popular, Jesus wasn’t either,” says Pastor Meadows. As far as we know, Jesus  wasn’t running around doggin styling 11 year olds, in which case he probably wouldn’t have been so popular, in fact they probably would have executed him.  Hey, wait, never mind, I wasn’t there so I’m not suggesting anything, forget I said anything.  The pastor says Hourigan will never be left alone with any child.  That’s what the bishops said. That doesn’t comfort the former member who says part of a pastor’s job is to minister to all people and those restrictions won’t allow Hourigan to do that.

OK, sorry I strayed but I couldn’t help add my commentary.  So, here’s the bet:

I say this is a story (if it wasn’t already), maybe one of the bigger ones, though nothing can knock off the racist, socialist trojan horse muslim illegal death squad immagrant Obama, but Fox will go crazy over this story.

Why?

1)      The church accepts everyone (what church does that!), including gays! 

2)      It is not a Roman Catholic Church so they’ll “crucify” the church, the pedophile, the janitor, everyone but god.

3)      Who will be the front runners on the story?

4)      I say it will be a tie, Hannity and O’Reilly.

When does the responsibility for the cover up and thousands  of pedophiles never brought to justice finally make it’s way to to the top?