Megachurch Punishes Woman for Seeking Divorce from Child-Porn-Watching husband

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Karen Hinkley belonged to The Village Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch in Dallas. This is one of those churches that makes you sign a contract for the privilege of being associated with them. Among other things, the contract stipulates that you must be abstinent until marriage, your marriage must be “heterosexual and monogamous,” and that you can’t watch porn.

Then there’s this:

I will seek to preserve the gift of marriage and agree to walk through the steps of marriage reconciliation at The Village Church before pursuing divorce from my spouse.
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Hinkley thought that was harmless enough — she was already married to Jordan Root at this time — so the couple had no problem signing the contract.

She later discovered Root was watching porn. While most of us wouldn’t consider that a real problem, Hinkley later found out it was a genuinely serious problem:

“That night [my husband] admitted to almost ten years of child pornography use,” she says, “[a habit] that began while he was in college and continued throughout his seminary studies and into our dating and engagement.”

But that was just the beginning. According to Karen, “[Jordan] confessed that he preferred prepubescent girls beginning at age four but that he had viewed child pornography involving [kids that were] infants and teenagers as well.”
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You can understand, then, why Hinkley soon filed for annulment.
That’s when her problems with the church began. It seemed that they were more upset over Hinkley’s request for an annulment without first going through the church than they were with anything Root had done.

… the pastor writes, “we have been perplexed by your decision to file for an annulment of your marriage without first abiding by your covenant obligations to submit to the care and direction of your elders… this decision violates your covenant with us — and places you under discipline.”
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Another pastor later reached out to her:

“He wanted to tell me that the elders were instructing me not to separate our finances,” she says, “[that according to him] it ‘felt too much like a step toward divorce’ and they were ‘not ready to approve any steps that would bring further separation to our marriage.’”
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At that point, Hinkley just resigned from the church… but it wasn’t that simple:

This prompted another email exchange with Pastor [Matt] Younger, who denied Karen’s resignation, citing the church’s bylaws which prohibited members who were under church discipline from resigning their membership.
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Creepy and cult-like.
 
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Child-Porn-Enabling-Christians! :angrymob: (conservative logic)


CPEC :shocked:
 
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Horrible. The woman needs to stay as far away from her perverted creep of a husband as possible as well as anyone who justifies his behavior.
 
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If she had gone to the church I wonder how they would have handled his issue [for lack of a better word]. Of course, they may not have ignored it as this implies they did, but maybe they did. If so then they do not appear to be in the right at all as one reads this. And most certainly they are not with their reaction to her resignation.
 
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As usual, the evolutionist doesn't care about the crime; his only concern is how much he can bad-mouth Christians.
 
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The fact that the church offered an apology only after their despicable behavior was exposed just shows how skewed their priorities really are.
 
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You can understand, then, why Hinkley soon filed for annulment.
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Yes, their marriage contract was based on fraud. She is saying that she wouldn't have married, and doesn't want to be married to, someone who sexually desires prepubescent children.
 
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And there's the charming Duggar clan to consider as well: Another case of high-level evangelical pedophilia that was brought to the public's attention after an attempted cover up by virtually everyone involved who was in a position to actually do something.

Funny, by why in both cases was the priority first to make sure a lid was kept on things?:think:
 
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Granite said:
And there's the charming Duggar clan to consider as well: Another case of high-level evangelical pedophilia that was brought to the public's attention after an attempted cover up by virtually everyone involved who was in a position to actually do something.

Funny, by why in both cases was the priority first to make sure a lid was kept on things?:think:
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Which is why the Duggars took their boy to the police.

Stupid, stupid Granite. Too wrapped up in his hatred to consider any of the facts.
 
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Stripe said:
Which is why the Duggars took their boy to the police.

Stupid, stupid Granite. Too wrapped up in his hatred to consider any of the facts.
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Hypocrite: you obviously didn't consider these facts:

The "police" was a family friend who happened to be a cop and gave Josh a "stern talking", the cop which himself was later convicted of child porn.
 
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elohiym said:
And it wasn't a pedophilia accusation or admission.
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Where are you getting this from? The facts are that he molested 4 of his sisters (ranging in ages from 5-12 years old) and a neighbor girl. These are just who we know about, there could be more victims. A serial sexual abuser.
 
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