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What Wouldn't Jesus Do?: Jason Bourque And Daniel McAllister Charged With Burning One Church, Suspected Of Nine More.
Tuesday, Mar. 2 2010 @ 11:03AM
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Before we get to two young men who took their hatred of Christianity a bit too far, let's start off with Martin Ssempa, a preacher who took his hatred for gays a bit too far, too.
Martin Ssempa is a preacher in Uganda, a country that has not only made homosexuality illegal, but which is now considering legislation that would make being gay punishable by death. That same legislation, if passed, would also require jail time for anyone who is friends with a gay person and fails to turn that person in. In short, Uganda hates gay people. And, apparently, so does Ssempa.
Ssempa is a preacher at a Ugandan church, and like many religious leaders in that country, is a big proponent of the new legislation. In an effort to gain support amongst his congregants, Ssempa has also engaged in methods just as unorthodox as his insanely intolerant political beliefs.
Just last week, Ssempa showed gay porn during a Wednesday service. There were at least 300 people in attendance, including small children. We're assuming it was one of the weirdest, most awkward church services ever.
Ssempa argued that he was simply trying to educate his congregation as to what gay people do that is so horrific. Apparently, the old scare tactics -- like threats of eternal damnation -- just weren't cutting it anymore.
Still, we're not exactly sure how gay porn would do the trick, unless the men on screen spontaneously burst into flames while giving each other hand jobs.
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4. Robert MacGregor Fuller
Moving along from gay porn, we bring you to the tale of Catholic priest Robert MacGregor Fuller, who gave the gayest excuse ever for his own personal adventures in pornography.
In August, Fuller was arrested after he tried to meet up for sex with someone whom he thought to be a 13-year-old girl.
For three weeks, Fuller had been going online to chat with "Katie." Sometimes, he even used a webcam to broadcast himself masturbating. They had at least 13 conversations.
But it turns out that "Katie" wasn't the prepubescent girl of Fuller's dreams. She was actually an undercover cop.
This is what Fuller discovered on August 13, when he went to a park in Sydney, Australia, where he served at the All Saints Church for the past six years. Instead of getting laid, the 54-year-old was arrested and slapped with charges for "grooming and procuring a child under the age of 16."
On February 24, Fuller appeared in court and stated that there really wasn't anything wrong with what he did, since he understood that his online relationship with "Katie" was really just a fantasy, regardless of the fact that 1. Fantasizing about having sex with underage girls is still creepy and 2. He actually made an attempt to meet the girl in person, unless, of course, he knew that he'd be arrested, which we highly doubt.
As if his "fantasy" reasoning wasn't pathetic enough, Fuller then went on to blame his vow of chastity for his behavior, claiming he needed some sort of sexual release. Even the judge agreed, stating that the vow of chastity was "cruel" and "agonizing." Still, we're pretty sure no one forced Fuller to become a priest. And, even then, there are more prudent ways of finding a "release" -- like with an adult.
Luckily, claiming to be a priest does not get one off for charges of pedophilia. Not even in Australia. Fuller was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
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3. Donald Armstrong
Not to be out done by crappy clergymen overseas, the next four men have committed their great acts of moral turpitude right here in America, where, at least on this list, we really are Number One!
First, we bring you the case of Donald Armstrong, who receives the honor of being the first Episcopalian priest to ever make it onto What Would Jesus Do? just as we were starting to think that the Anglican Church had something that other denominations didn't: morals. But apparently, even WASPs are prone to criminal behavior. Who knew?
Last April, Armstrong was indicted on 20 counts of felony theft after an 11-month investigation showed that he'd stolen $392,000 from his church's funds in order to pay off his children's college education.
While we understand the cost of higher education is a crime in and of itself, most Americans, religious or not, probably wouldn't steal from their church coffers to make their monthly loan payments.
Still, Armstrong did just that, and now the 60-year-old is facing up to 240 years in prison, since each count carries a possible sentence of four to twelve years.
Armstrong's trial was set to begin on February 20, but his lawyer asked it to be rescheduled for October.
Armstrong is no stranger to long, protracted legal battles. In 2007, Armstrong led his church, Grace and St. Stephens in Colorado Springs, in separating from the Episcopal Church because of its liberal interpretations of the Bible. He joined ranks with the conservative Convocation of Anglicans in North America, which, based on Armstrong's actions, appears to condone pilfering church coffers, while denouncing homosexuality.
Armstrong continued to hold services on the Grace property, owned by the Episcopal Church, and refused to leave, causing one of the longest church property trials in the history of Colorado. A judge eventually sided with the Episcopal Church and threw Armstrong out.
We're thinking his luck won't be much better this go around, either.
2. Marion Barnes
Marion Barnes must have seemed like a trustworthy man. As senior pastor of the Glad Tidings Christian Center in Brandenburg, Kentucky, Barnes was the first person one family thought of when they could no longer care for their young daughter.
Barnes got custody of the girl and raised her as his own. But just a few days after the girl turned 18, she went to police and revealed that Barnes's style of child-rearing was anything but nurturing.
Earlier this month, the girl told the police that from the time she moved in with Barnes three years ago, he'd been sexually abusing her at least twice a week. Anytime she wanted to go the movies or asked Barnes for a favor, she was forced to watch the 57-year-old masturbate while he touched her breasts, among other lewd acts.
The girl's real father said he had no idea what was going on until his daughter went to police.
On February 17, Barnes was charged with several counts of sexual abuse of minor. Shortly after his arrest, his wife posted his $10,000 bail and he was released. He has since been suspended from his church and is ordered to stay away from the victim as well as all other children under the age of 18.
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1. Jason Bourque and Daniel McAllister
We understand that a lot of kids hate going to church. We just never realized that any of them hated it enough to burn one down.
So goes the story of Jason Bourque and Daniel McAllister. Ironically enough, it was at the First Baptist Church in Ben Wheeler, Texas where the boys first met. Their former pastor described 19-year-old Bourque as an outgoing and intelligent young man who asked good questions and could recite scripture from memory. The pastor also remembers 21-year-old McAllister as a shy boy, whose mother worked in the church nursery.
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But it had been a while since he'd seen either of them. Five years ago, Bourque's family moved away and McAllister seldom attended services after his mother died.
Still, Bourque and McAllister stayed in touch. Meanwhile, things went downhill for both of them. While McAllister became distraught after his mother's death, Bourque started showing signs of severe depression after he was kicked out of the University of Texas. Still, no one anticipated the sort of thing they did next.
On December 8, Fletcher Emanuel Church Alive in Lumberton, Texas caught fire. It was the first of 10 churches to go up in flames in East Texas. Over the next two months, at least nine more would suffer the same fate.
As police investigated, they found DNA evidence at one of the scenes linked to Bourque. On February 11, they contacted Bourque at his grandparents and then kept him under tight surveillance until he was arrested 10 days later at his girlfriend's house.
Shortly thereafter, McAllister was arrested, too. Both were charged with arson for the February 8 burning of the Dover Baptist Church in Tyler, Texas.
Upon Bourque's arrest, police also found weapons and books detailing his thoughts on atheism and devil-worshipping. It was a shock to those who knew him, to say the least. Even on the day Bourque was arrested, he had attended church services.
Police are still trying to link the other nine arsons to the men. Until then, both are being held in custody in lieu of $1 million bonds.
See last Tuesday's What Wouldn't Jesus Do?: Pastor Russel Schaller Charged With Molesting Underage Boy.
oh boy...and the hits keep coming
Posted 03/02/2010 at 06:35:18 PMWhat is not mentioned here is that police found three Bibles in Bourque's home.
Posted 03/15/2010 at 03:13:43 PMWell what was he using three bibles for Trudy? Obviously not guidance.
Posted 03/15/2010 at 03:52:20 PMWhy am I sure that you formed your opinion then just typed in some things you read to support them even though many of your facts are wrong. Jason and Daniel were arrested at the same time but seperate locations. The guns and books were taken later under a seperate search warrant. And those are just the facts that are public that you got wrong (any book anyone reads does not and is not a fact of their thoughts). We don't know why Jason and Daniel did what it seems they did, and a gag order by the judge is keeping anymore facts on the overall case of all fires from being released. I know both boys and more about them than you do but I will not judge the condition of their hearts. If they are guilty they should and will be punished by the legal system of our country. Peter denied Christ and he was used to found the first church, Judas betrayed Christ and then committed suicide, and Saul who was persacuting believers became the evangilist all other evangilst want to be. If God dealt with their hearts and their sins as you judge them where would Peter and Paul have been under you judgement.
Posted 03/19/2010 at 05:55:34 PM