Patrick Kelly, one of six people charged in the case, will go on trial Monday.
MINEOLA, Texas (AP) — In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as “silly pills” and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults.
This has to be one of the sickest things I have read involving children and sex. This happened in the small town of Mineola, Tx with a population of 5,100. According to the article, the sex shows which were held on a regular basis involved more then the children and the six adults charged but was reported to be attended by a audience of 50 to 100.
Key parts of the article…
The one-story building where prosecutors say four children — the three siblings, now ages 12, 10 and 7, and their 10-year-old aunt — were trained to perform in front of an audience of 50 to 100 once a week has been vacant since the landlord ousted the alleged organizers in 2004.
Down a slight hill is a retirement home, and even closer is the office of the local newspaper. Doris Newman, editor of The Mineola Monitor, said rumors of swinger parties spread around town but that no one mentioned children being involved.
Newman, who can see the building from her office window, said she remembers the parking lot filling up with more than a dozen cars at night.
In August 2004, an editorial under the headline “Sex In the City” opined that if the swingers left quietly, “we’ll try and forget they’ve infiltrated our town with their set of moral standards.”
“It’s not that we’re trying to look the other way,” Newman said. “But there’s a lot more to Mineola than that.”
My question is how did the town itself not know what really was going on in that house? There was up to 100 people attending the sex shows and I doubt they were all from out of town. It seems like there must have been some in the town that who were not participates but knew what really was going on there. Why did someone not espouse this sooner? The residents callings them “swingers” seemed to be a way for them to hide from the real truth. I think their was another crime that was committed and it did not happen in that house.
The Rev. Tim Letsch is opening a church in the yellow-plastered building where the children were abused. He acknowledges that building a congregation might be difficult because of the stigma attached to the property.
“You got to decide whether you’re willing to forgive those kind of things,” Letsch said. “It’s a hard deal. Especially for a spiritual person to walk in and say, ‘This happened here.”‘
Why in the world would a small town that already has 30 churches need another one? The house should be bulldozed and not left standing! Really, why would anyone want to live in or use that house? The people of this town need more to do then go to church and pray apparently.
I admit did not research this behind the story on CNN. If anyone who is local to the area that knows more infomation or can link to local news sources that adds to the story it would be welcome.
A man who was part of a anti-gay marriage protest interferes with same-sex couples trying to get marriage certificates in Yolo County of California. This loser at one point tries to say that his religion is being prosecuted because of the allowing of gay marriages. What?! The funnest part is the protester looks a little gay himself to me and maybe in the closet?
I just don’t understand why some people have nothing better to do then try to deny the same rights they have to someone else.
I had wrote a post a while back on one possible solution to the whole same-sex marriage issue is to just get government out of the marriage business! Basically, I suggested we just pass a federal law to only recognize civil unions which would have the same rights as a married couple now. If a couple wanted to be “married” they would go to their church. This way a same-sex couple to get “married” only need to belong to a church that allows it. I think this would make it harder for the religious nuts to be opposed to same-sex marriages since we still do have freedom of religion in this country.
Getting back to the title of this post… Maybe pro-gay marriage advocates in one of the two states that allows same-sex marriages should crash a heterosexual marriage to protest the union. I doubt that would happen since those type of people tend to have more class then the Jesus freaks.
I must be in a mood because feel like being offensive today. I seen this image on the Human Rights of America blog the other day and feel like sharing…
On the blog a image with the words “Keep Your Religion Out Of My Bedroom” was just above it but I am speaking about this in broader terms here.
Now first off I am not really saying Jesus is a Nazi but that the radical Christian Conservative movement in this country very much is “fascist like” when they try to inject their religious beliefs into our political system. What ever happened to the concept of separation of church and state? I get real worried when I read comments on other blogs were someone states we should make laws based on or follow “a Bible value system”. I guess we would have to pick and choose what values since many in the Bible are part of nobodies value system. I also always found it odd that Jesus lived in a time and place where slavery was a part of life but he never specify condemned it. OK, enough of the Bible nonsense…
Last year I read the excellent book “Kingdom Coming” by Buffalo native Michelle Goldberg which really opened my eyes on the Christian Nationalism movement. She actually traveled across the country meeting the people of this movement and going to their churches. I highly recommend her book. Sure people have the right to believe what they wish but a real concern is when they indoctrinate their children with this garbage. Watch the documentary Jesus Camp and it will make you sick. When your church starts using the words “we are fighting a war” and you are “a army of soldiers” be afraid.
Of course religion has infected the current Presidential race. John McCain, in breaking news finally has rejected the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee (video of this wacko on a previous post of mine) and also now his “spiritual adviser” Pastor Rod Parsley who recently called Islam a “conspiracy of spiritual evil”. The media is acting like these kind of comments from Mr. Parsley are something new. Sigh…
Earlier in the campaign a comment from Mitt Romney really disturbed me in which he said -”Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom…”. While religion does require freedom the opposite certainly is not true. I am no less free because I bow to no man made religion but thanks.
What I am really trying to say here is can religious people keep their faith in their bedroom, please?
I hope the author of the Human Rights of America blog comments here and lets me know where he found the above image or if he designed it himself.
While I encourage discussion from all sides, any Christians who decide they want to comment with less then “Christian words” on this post keep in mind this blog is not a free for all. Please refer to my About page and read the rules of conduct for this blog.
Many of you know that the Shadow Democracy blog (link still works but not for much longer) which I was involved in as the webmaster and as a infrequent contributor come to an end a couple of months ago. This happened because my good friend Matthew Podoba, the blog owner needed to take a break because of family issues. The good news is Matt will be starting a new blog and there will be announcement in regards to this very soon!
I decided to import my key posts from Shadow Democracy into this blog to archive and for your reading and comment pleasure…
It seems “Big media” , Hillary supports, and the right wingers will not let the Reverend Wright controversy (no not “scandal”) die even after Barack Obama’s speech in which he denounced some of Wright’s inflammatory comments (again) and addressed race relations in our country.
I think the main problem besides the inherent racism that is fueling the controversy, most people have not heard the whole sermons of Rev. Wright but only the short clips which are out of context that has been provided by the media
Here is a couple of good videos on illseed found in this post that allows you to hear the whole sermon and puts the Reverend’s comments in perspective…
