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Canon fired
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Canon fired
November 19, 2012 at 1:46 pm
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Canon fired
November 19, 2012 at 1:48 pm (This post was last modified: November 19, 2012 at 1:50 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Nikon triumphs.

Sorry, photographer joke. I'll exist stage left now. Big Grin
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RE: Canon fired
November 19, 2012 at 2:07 pm (This post was last modified: November 19, 2012 at 2:08 pm by JohnDG.)
14 to 17 year old boys.. Child abuse, but still closeted homosexual teens. I don't know about you guys but I doubt any boy at that age doesn't know if he is gay or straight and being poked is not something that just happens.. You can blame religion, but at those ages you know what sex is and if you are gay or not.
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RE: Canon fired
November 19, 2012 at 2:12 pm
I don't blame religion for this stuff, I blame a cloistered heirarchical organisation known for closing ranks, keeping silent and quietly shuffling offenders to other parishes and fresh victims.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Canon fired
November 19, 2012 at 2:14 pm (This post was last modified: November 19, 2012 at 2:14 pm by Tiberius.)
Has anyone mentioned the sentence yet? If not, I will:

4 years?!? Are you fucking kidding me?
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RE: Canon fired
November 19, 2012 at 2:15 pm (This post was last modified: November 19, 2012 at 2:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You're right John, it's not the fault of religion, it's the fault of the dumbass who sticks his dick in an unlawful place. His religion only becomes complicit in his crime when they shuffle him...which they did - and which appears to be a standard operating procedure for said religion.
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RE: Canon fired
November 19, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Archdeacon of West Cumberland Richard Pratt:
"The Church has failed and let people down."

Well, isn't that the biggest understatement of the millennia?
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RE: Canon fired
November 19, 2012 at 4:25 pm
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RE: Canon fired
November 19, 2012 at 4:32 pm
(November 19, 2012 at 3:56 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: Archdeacon of West Cumberland Richard Pratt:
"The Church has failed and let people down."

Well, isn't that the biggest understatement of the millennia?

I'd expect nothing less from a Dick Pratt.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Canon fired
November 19, 2012 at 4:37 pm
(November 19, 2012 at 1:46 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
Quote:The court was told Johns was demoted by his bishop instead of police being informed of the allegations made by his first victim.

The victim had made an official complaint to the church in 1993. By that time Johns was a canon at Carlisle Cathedral.

Johns made admissions to the then bishop, the late Right Rev Ian Harland, who felt the appropriate sanction was to move him to a church in Caldbeck.

The matter only came to the attention of police this year when another victim complained he had been abused by Johns.
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