Oh those Baptist

[clambake]

Minister Caught in Sex Sting
AP
Posted: 2008-05-17 09:37:54
Filed Under: Nation News, Crime News
BRYAN, Texas (May 17) - A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday.

Brazos County Judical Records / AP
Joe Barron is the minister for married adults at Prestonwood Baptist Church.


Undercover officers posing as a 13-year-old girl communicated with Joe Barron, 52, of Plano for about two weeks. The online conversations were sexual in nature, police said.

On May 6, Barron suggested meeting the girl in person. He eventually made the nearly 200-mile drive to Bryan on Thursday, when he was arrested. Police said they found a web-cam and condoms in his car.

Barron was released Friday night from the Brazos County Jail on bond. Police were unsure whether he had an attorney.

Barron is one of 40 ministers at Prestonwood Baptist Church, one of the largest churches in the country with 26,000 members. He ministers to married adults.

Mike Buster, executive pastor, said in a statement that the church had no record or knowledge of previous improprieties or saw any inappropriate behavior in the 18 months Barron was on the church staff.

Buster said church officials are fully cooperating with police.

"We are disturbed and saddened by the reports we have heard and we are praying for the Barron family," he said.


Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.


i think this is the conservative movement that clinging mars is refering to.:lmao

[ClingingMars]

not really, considering this is a church, not a political candidate.

but please continue to stereotype baptists and conservatives.

- Mars

[xrayzebra]

Clam is one happy camper this morning. Someone else got caught
do the sex thing and it wasn't a dimm-o-crap or was he?

[clambake]

yeah, because religion in texas always separates itself from politics. just ask don quixote, our resident baptist minister.

[ClingingMars]

yeah, because religion in texas always separates itself from politics. just ask don quixote, our resident baptist minister.

our resident minister is Reverend Midge, bitch. :lol

- Mars

[Don Quixote]

I had a feeling Fried Clams was going to say something rude. I wasn't even in this thread!

So how should I respond? That I disapprove of whatever some Baptist did? (Not sure on the details -- I block trolls). Okay, fine, I disapprove. Are we to believe that non-religious people, and evangelical atheists, never do anything wrong?

Lastly, when I say that Baptists have traditionally understood there to be a distinction between church and state, I do not mean that they abstain from political involvement. Of course, I imagine some here would like to see just that.

[ChumpDumper]

You could have stopped at "pedophillia is bad."

[clambake]

You could have stopped at "pedophillia is bad."

from a minister is beyond bad.

[clambake]

So how should I respond? That I disapprove of whatever some Baptist did? (Not sure on the details -- I block trolls).

you need to have your ignore button inspected.

but while i have you here, i'm not at all surprised to see you attempt to connect a non-religious person or athiest to the actions of a MINISTER. :lol

[ClingingMars]

from a minister is beyond bad.

so ministers are godlike people?

if so, then there's no way Jeremiah Wright should be considered a minister.

- Mars

[clambake]

conservatives are the ones focused on wright. he's much worse than a rapist.

[ClingingMars]

conservatives are the ones focused on wright.

because Obama is the Messiah and the drive-bys wouldn't bring it up.

- Mars

[Clandestino]

With primetime running "how to catch a predator" 24 hrs a day it is amazing that fools still do this shit.

[clambake]

because Obama is the Messiah and the drive-bys wouldn't bring it up.

- Mars

so everyone in this guys baptist congregation is a child rapist because he's their mentor. i get it.

[j-6]

The guy that founded Prestonwood got run out of town back in the late 80's for banging a deacon's wife. Everyone will forget about this in a week, anyway.

[ClingingMars]

so everyone in this guys baptist congregation is a child rapist because he's their mentor. i get it.

LOL nice try, but Wright preached his shit, this pastor did his stuff in secret.

- Mars

[smeagol]

Minister Caught in Sex Sting
AP
Posted: 2008-05-17 09:37:54
Filed Under: Nation News, Crime News
BRYAN, Texas (May 17) - A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday.

Brazos County Judical Records / AP
Joe Barron is the minister for married adults at Prestonwood Baptist Church.


Undercover officers posing as a 13-year-old girl communicated with Joe Barron, 52, of Plano for about two weeks. The online conversations were sexual in nature, police said.

On May 6, Barron suggested meeting the girl in person. He eventually made the nearly 200-mile drive to Bryan on Thursday, when he was arrested. Police said they found a web-cam and condoms in his car.

Barron was released Friday night from the Brazos County Jail on bond. Police were unsure whether he had an attorney.

Barron is one of 40 ministers at Prestonwood Baptist Church, one of the largest churches in the country with 26,000 members. He ministers to married adults.

Mike Buster, executive pastor, said in a statement that the church had no record or knowledge of previous improprieties or saw any inappropriate behavior in the 18 months Barron was on the church staff.

Buster said church officials are fully cooperating with police.

"We are disturbed and saddened by the reports we have heard and we are praying for the Barron family," he said.


Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.


i think this is the conservative movement that clinging mars is refering to.:lmao


:tu

You have proven that God does not exist . . .

[possessed]

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6954/1188994406433346a87dgi3.jpg

[clambake]

LOL nice try, but Wright preached his shit, this pastor did his stuff in secret.

- Mars
i guess you don't know secret from public. try reading the article.
mentors always fly under the gaydar......opppps...radar.

[ClingingMars]

i guess you don't know secret from public. try reading the article.
mentors always fly under the gaydar......opppps...radar.

uhhhh...the pastor did his stuff in secret, thats why it took an impostor to catch him. are you serious? you're just spewing bullshit now.

- Mars

[clambake]

too bad the ones he raped before weren't imposters.

if you sat through one of his sermons, expect to be arrested.

[SAGambler]

With primetime running "how to catch a predator" 24 hrs a day it is amazing that fools still do this shit.

I agree with the premise. It's just that there is always someone who thinks they can "beat the system".

Usually turns out, they would have been better off to just "beat the meat".

[ClingingMars]

too bad the ones he raped before weren't imposters.

i don't see ANY mention of rape in that article. am I just not looking hard enough or are you making up shit?

- Mars

[clambake]

i don't see ANY mention of rape in that article. am I just not looking hard enough or are you making up shit?

- Mars

i'm just making up shit. but i'm guessing he's done this without capture.

[ChumpDumper]

It's a fair bet this wasn't his first time doing something like this.

[clambake]

It's a fair bet this wasn't his first time doing something like this.

thats the problem with these mentors. it's important!

[xrayzebra]

thats the problem with these mentors. it's important!


Kinda like the virgins for the blowing yourself up. I know
you admire them.

[clambake]

Kinda like the virgins for the blowing yourself up. I know
you admire them.

jesus ray, you're really starting to drift.

[ClingingMars]

i'm just making up shit. but i'm guessing he's done this without capture.

an assumption is the mother of a mistake.

- Mars

[clambake]

an assumption is the mother of a mistake.

- Mars

i like that. can we wait to see how ray interprets this?