S.C. preacher charged with kidnapping & raping 3 women, 2 of them in a trailer BEHIND THE CHURCH.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

South Carolina Preacher Charged With Kidnapping, Rape

Published August 21, 2011



Aug. 18: Pastor Dale Richardson awaits a bond hearing in Summerville, S.C. Richardson is charged with sexually assaulting three women. A magistrate denied bond Thursday for Richardson.

LADSON, S.C. – Dale Richardson was saved at a tent revival 32 years ago, was called to preach the Lord's word in 2006 and, for the past year, had served as pastor at Freedom Free Will Baptist Church, a modest red brick structure on a South Carolina side road running along a railroad track.

Now he's in jail, charged with kidnapping and raping three women at gunpoint -- two of them in a trailer behind the church -- and kidnapping a fourth who was not sexually assaulted.

According to an incident report, about noon on a Saturday last month, Richardson picked up a woman and gave her a ride. When the 20-year-old tried to get out of the car, Richardson allegedly pulled a gun, bound her hands, covered her head and took her to the gray-blue trailer home behind the church.

The report said he later dropped the woman in a wooded area, threatening to shoot her if she turned around. Police said the woman was able to identify Richardson from his picture on the church website, which also displays a short biography detailing how he became a Christian and then a pastor.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/21/south-carolina-preacher-charged-with-kidnapping-rape/?test=latestnews

[xfundy]

1. Oh, but he's not a REAL Christian!

Puh-leeze.

Actually, he does fit the model of the modern "christian." Has anyone else noticed that anyone saying "I am a Christian" is usually followed by a stream of HATE?

A bit too late to speak up now, all you "real" Christers.

[Kurmudgeon]

4. When you say someone fits a model, aren't you really just profiling?

It's never too late to speak up, I already did in this forum. If it's too late for you, then that's your problem.
Just because a criminal decides to act, you don't paint everyone else like him with the same brush.
Unless you're just prejudiced at heart.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Ah, but the 'faith community' regularly rises as one to tell GLBT

people about the superior nature of heterosexual relationships, that God creates each and every 'Union' of 'one man, and one woman'. They claim this is Sacred, a Sacrament, and the faith community as a body says that marriage is under attack, and all the straights have to 'defend the Sacrament' against teh gay. The 'faith community' is made of prejudice and it worships discrimination. There are many, many active haters in that community, and precious few who stand up to them and stand with their victims. Phelps shows up, the 'good ones' do not counter his protest, nope, they leave Phelps to 'speak for God' and his victims to fend for themselves. For years and years on end.
Teachings from the Bible say that the fruit it bears defines the tree. We are not expected to keep eating bad fruit because the owner of the tree says it is good fruit. Sorry.
Also, Mr Jesus told his followers that if they feel persecuted or mocked for their faith, they must rejoice, he never gave permission for his followers to come to others and start talking about the hearts of others, Mr Jesus said shut up about the speck in your brother's eye, deal with the plank in your own.
Show me where Mr Jesus endorsed a line like 'then that's your problem'. No, really. Show me. Where does he give his followers permission to speak at all of 'problems' they see in others? I say he forbade it. Show me otherwise.

[Kurmudgeon]

7. I said nothing about the GLBT community. Meanwhile, Richardson has lot his preaching credentials.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20095381-504083.html
"The South Carolina Free Will Baptist State Association has suspended Richardson's preaching credentials pending the outcome of the investigations because "the misconduct alleged against him is forbidden by God.""

Nice try by you to change the subject, I'll give you that....
I've never had a harsh word for any person of the GLBT community since I grew up and realized that people are all different and have known and worked with and lived with GLBT folks with no problem.
I'll mention again that Christ said, "Judge not lest ye be judged.", so I won't pre-hate anyone to fulfill your preconceived notions.
I have freedom of speech as a US citizen, too bad for you if I decide to use it.
I wasn't talking about a speck, I was talking about being compared to a rapist.

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. "prejudiced at heart." YUP YUP n/t

[boppers]

2. God works in mysterious ways?

God wants more pastors in prison!

Thus, more crime?

[struggle4progress]

3. Innocent until proven guilty. I probably don't much like his theological views, but

probably quite a few South Carolinians share his theology -- and that didn't immunize him against arrest on these charges in a very conservative state (despite the ancient quip that South Carolina is "too small to be a republic and too large to be a lunatic asylum") so perhaps his professed religious views have little to do with the matter

Within living memory, some of our Southern states, South Carolina included, sometimes had a reputation for rushing to judgment in various cases, without much attention to legal niceties. Perhaps no one today expects an extra-judicial murder of Richardson, but such events were common, not all that long ago, and social climates can flip back and forth more than once in a few short generations, so I think I'll just say once again -- innocent until proven guilty