Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, which attracts an estimated 100,000 worshipers weekly, has confessed to “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” more than 35 years ago while he was a young pastor after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her over multiple years beginning when she was 12.

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 days ago

      The title itself is trying to minimize it so hard. It isn’t a moral failure, it’s a pedophile.

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        15 days ago

        To me it seems like the point of the title is how insane it is and how guilty it makes him look that this was his response

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          13 days ago

          That’s fair enough. I’m just so jaded by most media that intentionally do this sort of stuff that it’s hard to see it otherwise.

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      15 days ago

      The woman herself speaks against this and against everything he said. The majority of the article is her story and I encourage others to read past the PR paragraphs at the start!