{"id":191316,"date":"2009-09-03T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/03\/i-guess-that-they-are-morally-superior\/"},"modified":"2009-09-03T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T00:22:00","slug":"i-guess-that-they-are-morally-superior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/03\/i-guess-that-they-are-morally-superior\/","title":{"rendered":"I Guess That They Are Morally Superior"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 210px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img34.imageshack.us\/img34\/5776\/2461319389750.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img200.imageshack.us\/img200\/4720\/3491819402832.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Stephen is on the left, Melina is on the Right<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The former assistant dean at Pat Robertson&#8217;s Regent University, formerly CBN University, and his wife, Stephen and Melina Mcpherson, <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2009\/09\/former-regent-assistant-dean-wife-guilty-child-sex-abuse\">pled guilty to sexually abusing three teenage sisters at Hope Haven Children&#8217;s Home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Court records show the McPhersons manipulated the teens into submitting to fondling, kissing and other sex acts. They cited Bible verses that they said justified the abuse and, afterward, would pray together for God&#8217;s forgiveness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It gets better, because he has already pled guilty to forcible sodomy and object sexual penetration on two of the girls.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that the members of the religious right <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">are<\/span> just better than the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tartuffe\">Tartuffe<\/a> looks less and less like a comedy every day.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/diary\/12788\/\">Pam&#8217;s House Blend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen is on the left, Melina is on the Right The former assistant dean at Pat Robertson&#8217;s Regent University, formerly CBN University, and his wife, Stephen and Melina Mcpherson, pled guilty to sexually abusing three teenage sisters at Hope Haven Children&#8217;s Home. Court records show the McPhersons manipulated the teens into submitting to fondling, kissing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1021,1019,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-religion","category-schadenfreude","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}