{"id":4188,"date":"2018-08-20T01:06:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2018-08-20T01:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:06:06","slug":"more-church-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/more-church-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"More Church Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you hear about the latest church sex scandal?&nbsp; For several years, the Pennsylvania Attorney General has been investigating six Catholic Church dioceses in the state.&nbsp; According to the 900-page court document, over 300 priests have been accused of sexually assaulting and grooming children in their parishes.&nbsp; The ringleaders are alleged to have been a \u201cgang of four priests\u201d who worked together.&nbsp; The report claims that when a priest found a boy he felt was, um, \u201ccompliant\u201d, he would give him a gold cross to wear around his neck.&nbsp; \u201cThe crosses were markings of which boys had been groomed for abuse,\u201d says Attorney General&nbsp;<strong>Josh Shapiro<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cOne boy was forced to stand on a bed in a rectory, strip naked, and pose as&nbsp;<strong>Christ&nbsp;<\/strong>on the cross for the priests.\u201d&nbsp; If I\u2019ve said it once, I\u2019ve said it a million times \u2013 nothing good happens in the rectory.<\/p>\n<p>As you probably know, churches are non-profit organizations and are typically granted tax-exempt status from the&nbsp;<em>Internal Revenue Service<\/em>.&nbsp; Last week, the IRS granted such an exemption to a new church called the&nbsp;<strong><em>Pussy Church of Modern Witchcraft<\/em><\/strong>!&nbsp; The group claims that they \u201ccome together to form a congregation of adherents to our female born, lesbian-feminist-based religion beliefs and traditions\u201d.&nbsp; That all sounds fine and dandy, but the group that formed this \u201cchurch\u201d is the&nbsp;<em>Transgender Exclusionary Radical Feminists<\/em>!&nbsp; And it\u2019s exactly what you think it is \u2013 and kudos to them for not trying to hide their bigotry.&nbsp; \u201cMales are not permitted to participate, regardless of how they identify.\u201d&nbsp; This sounds like it could be a plot point on the new&nbsp;<strong><em>Charmed<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;series \u2013 coming soon to&nbsp;<em>The CW<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you hear about the latest church sex scandal?&nbsp; For several years, the Pennsylvania Attorney General has been investigating six Catholic Church dioceses in the state.&nbsp; According to the 900-page court document, over 300 priests have been accused of sexually assaulting and grooming children in their parishes.&nbsp; The ringleaders are alleged to have been a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}