Category — youth

Media outlets in Wilmington, NC reported that a 54 year old Church of God in Christ “superintendent” has confessed to multiple sexual crimes against a 14 year old boy. The crimes occurred in 1998 while the boy stayed in the pastor’s home.

According to several news outlets [see here, here and here] Superintendent Thomas A. Wiggins,Jr., pastor of the Faith Temple COGIC and Bolton COGIC was arrested and charged November 29th with five counts of first-degree sexual offense and five counts of indecent liberties with a minor.

The crimes are of a serious nature. North Carolina law defines the charges thusly:

§ 14‑27.7A. Statutory rape or sexual offense of person who is 13, 14, or 15 years old.

(a) A defendant is guilty of a Class B1 felony if the defendant engages in vaginal intercourse or a sexual act with another person who is 13, 14, or 15 years old and the defendant is at least six years older than the person, except when the defendant is lawfully married to the person.

§ 14‑202.1. Taking indecent liberties with children.

(a) A person is guilty of taking indecent liberties with children if, being 16 years of age or more and at least five years older than the child in question, he either:

(1) Willfully takes or attempts to take any immoral, improper, or indecent liberties with any child of either sex under the age of 16 years for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire; or

(2) Willfully commits or attempts to commit any lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body or any part or member of the body of any child of either sex under the age of 16 years.

(b) Taking indecent liberties with children is punishable as a Class F felony.

The unmarried Wiggins is an “adminstrative assistant” to Bishop CE Anderson in the denomination’s North Carolina 2nd Jurisdiction [source].

Despite numerous high profile sex crimes and cases of sexual immorality among members of its clergy, denominational leaders continue to deny that clergy sexual abuse is a significant problem. In November 2009, the denomination’s chief lawyer Enoch Perry told a church gathering

“Media coverage of any sexual oriented event and the church will have a negative slant. The pessimistic coverage will have a direct impact on the overall public perception of the church involved, its corporate body and its membership. Additionally, this negativity will directly affect new membership and outside donations.”

Report COGIC Abuse has been documenting the shocking examples of disregard for biblical admonitions and the church’s own seemingly selective application of its own constitution.

Despite a letterallegedy leaked by the church’s COO detailing legal failures and ethical violations by Perry, he was promoted to bishop in the 2011 convention in St Louis.

The case with Thomas raises the number of cases in 2011 to four and 47 total documented cases.
Cross posted at COGIC Abuse Watch blog

Gay christian bishop Vickie Gene Robinson speaking the lies of his father and sowing death into the lives of young people confused about their sexuality. The false “it gets better” campaign has done nothing but foment a spirit of death in America. Leave it up to false, self identified religious talking heads like Robinson to do his part in keeping young people in the darkness of sin.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. Eph 5:6-7 KJV

Homosexual activists Dan Savage and Lady Gaga should be brought up on charges of murder for issuing wholesale false promises and lies to young people confused about their sexuality.

“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” John 8:44 ESV

Just this past week, Savage’s so-called “it gets better campaign” proved just how ineffective it is when a fourteen year old boy in Buffalo, New York committed suicide after embracing its dead message. ABC News reported that Buffalo police are considering charges.

It was clear Jamey Rodemeyer was walking on unstable ground when he posted a video as part of Savage’s massive internet based deception movement. Watch his video where he attempts in vain to prop up his life on Savage’s dead promise. This is the portrait of a child with an empty heart. He doesn’t believe the IGB promise even while he tries to convince others with the same empty words he is holding onto.

If homosexual activists are looking for a culprit and someone to lay the blame on, they need look no further than what a dollar store mirror will show them. Plying confused children with false hope is just like giving a drunk kid car keys and telling him to drive home safely.

And where was false gay bishop Jim Swilley and other MIA gay christian talking heads who claim “gay teen” suicides drove them out of the closet? Where were they when Jamey Rodemeyer was gasping on the thin air of their false promises?

The tragic irony of the “it gets better” lie is that it ignores the only true hope for those who are personally embattled with sexuality and gender confusion issues. It (whatever “it” is) never defines what “hope” is, thus its nothing but a carrot stick trick to hurting children. Savage conveniently tosses out the bait only to dissappear then re-emerge with “outrage” when another sexually confused teen succumbs to their inner demons. The real outrage is that America has been suckered into accepting a lie that continues to kill its youth. Of course, it gets Savage and his IGB cohorts lots of media face time and awards and such. For them, the exposure certainly does get better.

But let’s be clear here. The solution to such turmoil in youth isn’t the usual humanistic “just believe in yourself”, “just love yourself”, “you were born this way” screeds. At best, such is fatalistic window dressing. Telling someone that they cannot change what they hate about themselves is no promise, its a death sentence. Imagine if Christ came and told us that we could not be free from sin? That we would just have to accept it and learn to live under its crushing damnation? That’s the damning message homosexual activists (religious and political) are pushing upon confused, vulnerable children. You are “gay” and you must put on a brave face and accept it because it cannot be changed. The effects of that lie are seen everyday and everywhere as young people are subjected to cruelty caused by a damning lie. Its even more tragic to then promise them “it will get better”.

Dr. Michael Brown the Charlotte based director of Coalition of Conscience, echoed the dangerous set up homosexual activists are staging for emotionally and socially bruised kids like Rodemeyer:

After all, it is gay activists who constantly remind us that LGBT kids are bullied and even beaten up at school. They tell us how dangerous the school environment is for kids who identify as LGBT, and yet at the same time, they praise kids like Larry for coming out at 10. They even want more Gay Straight Alliances in our middle schools, where pre-teens can declare their gay identity to their peers and faculty advisors without their parents’ knowledge. Why? So they can become targets of hatred and potential violence? If our schools really are so “homophobic” and dangerous, why not encourage these kids to keep their sexual orientation to themselves until they’re in a safer environment?

Savage, Gaga, Swilley, Obama and all the rest that have promised “it gets better” have no power to change anything because they are finite humans with the same limitations and frailties as the kids who believe their false promises.

Contrast the false —and powerless— promises of Savage, Gaga (who’s now whining to SOTUS about the issue) to the promises of new life given to all men who are in covenant with Jesus Christ.

Joshua 23:14 – God says not one of his promises will ever fail you
Jeremiah 29:11 – God says his plan for us is filled with hope
Titus 1:2 – You can rest in his promises, because he cannot lie
Numbers 23:19 – God is not a man that he should lie. If he said it, he will perform it.

Nothing will get better when the only hope for change is rejected. The only hope for this world is Jesus Christ. Not a church, not a program, not a campaign, not the lies of gay activists. Jesus Christ.

Using the mold cast by homosexual rights activists,  of a  group of psychiatrists and other mental health “professionals”, are paving the way for pedophiles — that’s adults who think having sex with children is normal—   say it’s time to change the way society views individuals who have physical attractions to children.

The story via FOX News:

The organization, which calls itself B4U-Act, is lobbying for changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, the guideline of standards on mental health that’s put together by the American Psychiatric Association.

The group says its mission is to help pedophiles before they create a crisis, and to do so by offering a less critical view of the disorder.

“Stigmatizing and stereotyping minor-attracted people inflames the fears of minor-attracted people, mental health professionals and the public, without contributing to an understanding of minor-attracted people or the issue of child sexual abuse,” reads the organization’s website.

B4U-Act said that 38 individuals attended a symposium in Baltimore last week, including researchers from Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and the universities of Illinois and Louisville. According to the group, which said to not endorse every point of view expressed, the speakers in attendance concluded that “minor-attracted” individuals are largely misunderstood and should not be criminalized even as their actions should be discouraged.

Speakers also argued that people who are sexually attracted to children should have input into the decision about how pedophilia is defined in the DSM, which they said is supposed to be a guide to promote “mental health vs. social control.”

Critics of the conference say it was a thinly veiled attempt to make children of any age sexually accessible to adults.

“Absolutely,” Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting professor of law at Liberty School of Law said. “Oh, they’re very clear about that. Their goal is to take all shame out of the lust for children.”

The American Psychiatric Association did not participate in the conference, and evidently does not condone the group’s message.

“An adult who engages in sexual activity with a child is performing a criminal and immoral act and this is never considered normal or socially acceptable behavior,” the APA wrote in a 2003 position statement.

Ironically, that was the same position the APA held about homosexuality, prior to caving in to internal political pressure by homosexual activist and removing it as a mental illness in 1973. And things have never been the same since.

Now, those mental health “professionals” are using the exact same tactics the gays used to gain legitimacy and ultimately “rights”. If the trajectory continues, within 10 years or less, adult-child sex will be decriminalized and adult-child marriage will become legal. The homosexual model of inclusion, rights and acceptance is the road that will make it reality.

And one thing you won’t hear is the two peas in a pod gay christian movement speaking out against it. Sin loves company.

WILMINGTON, NC – Perhaps the liberal religious left is abandoning their cult status belief in “separation of church and state”. Or maybe the so-called “separation of church and state” has only been something they used when it was of advantage to their causes. This seems to be the case at a government run school in North Carolina who has taken upon itself to recommend gay affirming churches to its student body.

When a department chair at the University of North Carolina Wilmington suggested that the school’s staff could send a list of “gay-friendly” churches to the school’s students, she ignited a heated debate on the separation of church and state.

“I was really ticked,” said criminology professor and TownHall.com columnist Dr. Mike Adams during an interview with The Christian Post on Tuesday.

Adams openly criticized the school’s LGBTQIA Resource Office, a diversity office that supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and intersex students, in his Aug. 15 column for spending government time and money on locating and endorsing certain churches over others based on their view of homosexuality.

The list of five churches is part of a bigger resource guide which was initially circulated last month to the school’s staff by Amy Schlag (pictured, left), the LGBTQIA Office Program Adviser. But when Dr. Kimberly Cook, chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at UNCW, got a hold of it, she said it could be passed on to students as well.

“It might be useful for you and your students,” she wrote in the email to other staff members. “Use as you deem appropriate.”

Adams, who is an atheist-turned-Christian, recalled that in 2009 he sent an email to students that mentioned that they were “endowed with a purpose by their Creator,” which Cook then sent to the school’s dean in protest.

Now she’s allowed a list recommending churches to students to be passed out, and that outrages Adams.

He says that there are, undoubtedly, people on campus at UNCW that agree that the school should not endorse specific churches. But, he says, “no one will speak up at all because it’s the gay movement, and everyone is terrified of speaking up against the gay movement.”

Adams says that he is currently in the middle of a court battle with UNCW over a promotion that the school denied him five years ago due, in part, to his controversial column and his criticisms of diversity. In April, he won a unanimous decision for his first amendment rights in front of a circuit court of appeals.

He originally wrote his latest piece, he says, because he saw the list of churches as an opportunity to “expose the hypocrisy of how the separation of church and state ‘card’ is sort of played by the academic left.”

If the separation of church and state is indeed a legitimate barrier to the government endorsing religious beliefs over another, then the University of North Carolina at Wilmington is in grave violation. Dr. Kimberly Clark and Amy Schlaga should be terminated immediately. They didn’t just send a little smiley note to inquiring homosexual students, they sent the list out to the entire student body. It reeks of the liberal political groupthink syndrome so prevalent in today’s institutions of higher learning.  Aren’t college students mature enough to select their on their own a place to practice their religious beliefs without the official prodding of a paid government representative?

As Dr. Adams pointed out in the story, when any religion they deem in opposition to their “enlightened” view of the world wants to be recognized, its a cardinal sin and a egregious crime. But when its the religion du jour aka homosexual churches, well put out the sweet tea and pancakes. All is well.

Contact UNCW and register your complaint:

Chancellor Gary Miller [email] [910.962.3030]

Amy Schlaga schlaga@uncw.edu [910-962-2114]

Dr. Jose Hernandez Associate Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion [910-962-2947]  hernandezj@uncw.edu

The conclusion of our exclusive and extensive interview with Pastor Joe Schimmel of Blessed Hope Chapel in Simi Valley, CA exposing the roots of the homosexual agenda and its fellowship with leaders of the satanic religion. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Shofarsound: Tell me how the homosexual agenda fits into end time prophecy.

Pastor Joe: Jesus warned us that in the last days, just prior to his return, that the world would become just as vile as it was in the days of Lot, who was persecuted by homosexuals of Sodom (Luke 17:26-30).  That homosexuality is one of the sins in view in Sodom is made clear in Jude 1:6-8.

We are also warned in the book of Revelation, that the world will become so wicked, that even the holy city of Jerusalem will become like Sodom and Egypt in the last days (Rev. 11:8).

Add to these passages the fact that the apostle Paul, in 2 Timothy 3:1-7 stated that the last days perilous times would come, and that many people would be “without natural affection.” The Greek word that Paul uses is Astorgos, which literally means “without family love” or “without natural love.”  The only other place that Astorgos is used in the New Testament is in Romans 1:31, just after Paul condemns homosexual behavior and other sinful activity.  Paul’s warning in Romans chapter one, that men abandoned their natural relationship with women for that which was against nature, is certainly “unnatural affection” and against God’s plan for what He created to be a truly loving family.  This brings us back to Crowley’s satanic quest to usher in the age of Antichrist, and destroy the family, which he called “public enemy number one.”

Moreover, in the book of Revelation, which deals with the end of the age, Jesus, not only prophesies about a return to Sodomy, but warns that the final judgment will be for many sins including “abominations,” which we discussed earlier, includes homosexuality (Revelation 21:8, 27).

Shofarsound: The recent passage of California’s gay indoctrination law reveals a tell-tale moment about the goals of homosexual activists. What do you think is the ultimate goal of the homosexual agenda?

Pastor Joe: The most hideous aspect of the goals of the homosexual movement is that many homosexuals want legal access to our children.  While this is obviously not true of all homosexuals, we can see that many of the leaders of the modern day gay movement, going back to Crowley, Harry Hay, Alfred Kinsey and Kenneth Anger, they were after the very young.  Whether it was Crowley’s sexually perverted orgies with young boys; Harry Hay’s marching with NAMBLA; Kenneth Anger’s relationships with young men like Bobby Beausoleil or Kinsey commissioning the molestation of children in an effort to prove that children are sexual creatures.  We document in “The Kinsey Syndrome” that Kinsey favored incest and that he, and many of his associates, have led the way in lowering or eradicating the age of consent laws.

Shofarsound: How is the homosexual agenda influencing the gay christian movement’s theology?

Pastor Joe: The homosexual agenda influences Gay theology by continuing to place the worship of the creature above the worship of the creator.  When this takes place, the whole created order is inverted.  Tragically, those who embrace gay theology hold the words of their leaders in higher esteem than those of the Lord Jesus Christ, the apostles and the prophets.  When you erode the authority of scripture and begin with Satan’s premise in Genesis chapter three, asking “Hath God said?” about things He has already made clear, you fall into the trap of replacing God’s truth with Satan’s lies.  Homosexuals, who claim to hold to the authority of scripture as the word of God, typically seek to explain away the many texts that condemn homosexual activity.  They ignore the fact that the entire church for 2,000 years, beginning with the early church father’s, uniformly understood God to have made Himself abundantly clear throughout holy scripture, to be against all sexually immoral behavior, including homosexuality.

In 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12, we read that the world will refuse to love the truth and be given over to the lie. The apostle Paul reveals to us that this will result in the worship of the Antichrist as God (2 Thes. 2:1-4). Paul makes a similar point in Romans chapter 1:18-32, when he states that those who worship creation instead of God, believe a lie.  Discerning Christians should see where this lie is going and hold fast to God’s Word without wavering.

Shofarsound: We dont see a lot of evidence of the church responding, but in light of what you have revealed, how should the Church respond to the homosexual agenda?

Pastor Joe: I believe that we need to respond to the homosexual agenda with Christ’s great commission. We need to speak the truth in love, and share with homosexuals, the same way we share with those who are caught up in other sins.  We need to approach those who have been deceived by the leaders of the homosexual agenda, in a spirit of humility, remembering that we too were enslaved to one vice or another, whether it was homosexuality or a myriad of other sins.  We need to remember that we are saved by God’s great grace and that God impartially extends this grace to all of humanity (Titus 2:11-13). We need to remember Paul’s Holy Spirit inspired words when he instructed us to:

“…. always to be gentle toward everyone. At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:2b-5).

We need, as the Lord instructed us through the apostle Peter, to always be ready to give an answer for the hope that is within us, with gentleness and respect (1 Peter 3:15).

We need to share the gospel and remember that it is the power of God to salvation, to everyone who believes (Romans 1:16). We need to share with those caught up in homosexual activity, that the power of the gospel to save, refers not only to the power to deliver us from the penalty of sin, but the power of sin. Many who are caught up in homosexuality have experienced the power of the evil one and cannot comprehend the fact that they can be set free.  We need to share with them the power of God’s Word (Heb. 4:12); the power of the gospel (Romans 1:16) and the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8).  We need to let them know that the same power that rose Jesus from the dead, is available to them in person of Jesus Christ, if they are only willing to sincerely repent of their sins and embrace Him through faith as the Lord and Savior (Romans 8:11).  He has promised victory to whoever will come to Him (John 6:37).

I would strongly counsel that we fast and pray for our friends and loved ones, and all who are bound by the spirit of homosexuality.  I truly believe we will see greater and greater victory in the lives of those we are witnessing to, when we first break up the fallow ground with prayer and fasting:

“Is this not the fast which I choose, to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?” (Isaiah 58:6).

We need to sincerely love and pray for those who have been given misinformation and taught that homosexuality is not a sin, or that it is genetic, or that it is impossible to be set free.

Lastly, I would encourage that those who are in need of help or guidance, to contact ministries like your own, that specialize in biblically based ministry to those caught up in homosexuality.  We need to pray for ministries that are on the front line of this battle, so that God will graciously hold them up, and use them mightily to save those who are bound by the stronghold of homosexuality.