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Youth Pastor Watch

Dan Savage
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inappropriate.
maybe mr connecticut kissed the girl.
in the bathroom.
on October 5, 2009 at 10:01 AM Report this
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I almost feel like the best way to get laid in this country is to be a youth pastor.
Urgutha Forka on October 5, 2009 at 10:05 AM Report this
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That last one seems irrelevant.
on October 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM Report this
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What did the last guy do? Is he just a youth pastor? Shouldn't we wait until he actually does something inappropriate first before putting him on the list?
on October 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM Report this
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Regarding the California youth pastor, is this a followup to a previous story on this guy? Or is engagement while being a youth pastor considered that bad?
mackro on October 5, 2009 at 10:21 AM Report this
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@2 It definitely has to be the easiest route for pedophiles to satisfy their impulses. It seems like in the majority of these stories, the YP's are able to get away with it for years and years before getting caught, or even being accused.
Hernandez on October 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM Report this
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2: That should be, "the best way to get laid on this continent...". The third story is from Ontario, not North Carolina!

Overly Sensitive Canadian
rhymeswithlibrarian on October 5, 2009 at 10:31 AM Report this
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Dan, help us out...what is the deal with the third guy?
Purocuyu on October 5, 2009 at 10:37 AM Report this
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8 Dan thinks he's kind'a cute
on October 5, 2009 at 10:41 AM Report this
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The third guy? He's been accused of coercing a teenage girl—a parishioner—into having sex with him when he was her youth pastor and then having sex with her on a daily basis for two years.
Dan Savage on October 5, 2009 at 10:42 AM Stranger Staff
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@3 @4 @5

If you haven't noticed by now: Dan likes people talking about him, arguing about him, thinking about him. You asking "Why did Dan add that last one?" feeds his ego, provides him his raison de'tre. Other than that, and perhaps Dan's claim of clairvoyance, there was no reason to include the last one.
on October 5, 2009 at 10:47 AM Report this
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@everybody

You guys have short memories. Due to allegations of bias and people whining that Dan doesn't show the good youth pastors also (fair and balanced, amirite?), he's been including a decent person with all the scum.
Critical on October 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM Report this
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God, I didn't read Slog for like six months, then I come back and people are STILL asking "what's the deal with the last guy?"
Phiadria on October 5, 2009 at 10:54 AM Report this
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you know he meant the fourth guy.
god, no wonder nobody likes you, asshole
on October 5, 2009 at 10:56 AM Report this
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Dan, I just saw this article from near my howntown. The very religious Lancaster. This guy the article states worked with youth in his church.

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/loca…
on October 5, 2009 at 11:32 AM Report this
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@10 sorry Dan, I meant the fourth guy. on my screen I lost the first one during the scroll.
Why the California Pastor? Is there some back story that we are missing?
Purocuyu on October 5, 2009 at 11:32 AM Report this
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Dan, I just saw this from my hometown of lancaster pa

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/loca…
on October 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM Report this
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Regarding Mr. Robertson from California. It's called Youth Pastor WATCH, because youth pastors should be closely watched, rather than unconditionally trusted due to their self-professed "love of their lord"...as should all people with unsupervised access to your children. They all look like "good Christians" on the surface. That's why their abuse is so effective. Religious people need to open their eyes. Estimates indicate that more than 4% of Catholic Priests in the US are pedophiles. How do you Catholics know which are the "good ones?"
jeff in pdx on October 5, 2009 at 12:59 PM Report this
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better link

http://home.conservativebabylon.com/2009…
on October 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM Report this
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Dan has claimed (and even been confronted by included pastors) that he is including information about youth pastors who are doing good, or simply in the news for unrelated reasons, as a way of showing he isn't biased against youth pastors.

This is a transparant bigotry. Dan is, like all of us, a flawed and biased person. His biases are against Christians, fat people, and conservative or closeted Homosexuals.

If you're reading this, you have your own, as do I. I'm wary of young Arab men, out and out frightened of poorly dressed blacks in low riding vehicles, and dismissive of Ivy League cunts.
on October 5, 2009 at 1:13 PM Report this
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You bolded a link to a Facebook page that is actually MySpace. I nitpick, sorry.
on October 6, 2009 at 6:11 AM Report this
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There's no way that people who are supposed to be our guide to what is Holy should be doing things as truly unholy as manipulating people into sex before they're ready. At the very least, those are the people who are REQUIRED to either say "only with marriage" or flee the scene rather than break their responsibility to be very godly at all times. Sadly, there are laws that can be broken but not punished for breaking. As long as we have protections in place to care for the victims afterwards, we can look forward to a stronger resistance to the slew of corrupt authority figures (even young ones) that seem to be appearing constantly in the media lately.
late_take on October 12, 2009 at 1:20 PM Report this
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the story of the oshawa pastor is incorrect on here as well as when it was published in the paper. brian klein was not the youth pastor, never was a pastor. he was an administrator. people place pastors on a pedestal and love to watch when something goes wrong.
tracy34 on October 17, 2009 at 4:00 PM Report this
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Jason Glaza from Connecticut: may of done something he deeply regrets and he is getting help for it, he did not do anything with the girl or any other girl other than his wife.... HE NEEDS TO BE TAKEN DOWN FROM HERE RIGHT NOW!!!! WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE????? GOD WILL DO ALL THE JUDGING HERE SO TAKE HIM DOWN!!!!
I Know The Truth About Jason Glaza on November 6, 2009 at 8:30 AM Report this
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Oh, shut the fuck up. We all know Jason's a perv.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on November 6, 2009 at 8:36 AM Report this
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Like I said above Jason Glaza knows He messed up by sending only a txt message to a 16 year old girl that was wrong but he is getting help for it.... SO TAKE HIM DOWN NOW!!!!
I Know The Truth About Jason Glaza2 on November 6, 2009 at 8:54 AM Report this
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You Know Nothing About Jason Glaza, You never met him, nor seen him So you can just shut your month Jason Is and Always will be a Bigger Man Then you ever will be.... Yes he made a mistake by sending that txt but it don't give you a right to Judge him God will make the last Judgment not you so unless you know what you are talking about don't speak about him!!!!

Have a Nice day!!!!!
I Know The Truth About Jason Glaza2 on November 6, 2009 at 9:07 AM Report this
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@Fifty-Two-Eighty

Don't act like your all-knowing. You sound like a child. "We all" don't know anything, much less you. From the look of your picture, you probably get off to websites like these, so your opinion means nothing at all.

@I know the truth About Jason

Please calm down. Yelling at the ignorant won't get you anywhere.
New Begining on December 4, 2009 at 12:52 PM Report this

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