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Pastor Who Blessed 'Threesome' Offers To Resign
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Posted on 06/17/2002 5:09:21 AM PDT by chance33_98
Pastor Who Blessed 'Threesome' Offers To Resign
Reverend Admits He 'Screwed Up'
Posted: 12:47 p.m. EDT June 15, 2002
Updated: 12:53 p.m. EDT June 15, 2002
PORTLAND, Ore. -- An Oregon pastor who blessed the relationship of a threesome says he's a "sucker" who only wants "to help people."
Now, the threesome is in jail, charged with abusing two teenage girls, and the pastor is offering his resignation.
The Rev. Elwin Schwab admits he "screwed up" by using the word "blessing," a term associated with the sacrament of marriage. Schwab held a ceremony 18 months ago for a married couple and a single woman where they exchanged rings and then told others that they were married.
Schwab says he told them before the ceremony that "they were nuts," but they were persistent and he finally agreed to their request. He says he had no idea they may have been involved in playing sex games with underaged girls.
The three allegedly set up games with the girls in which they would take turns having sex with them by drawing lots.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Oregon
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Give it time, should be a normal church practice in a few years. Gay marriage, multiple spouses, eventually marrying your kids. This guy was just ahead of his time :)
To: chance33_98
You forgot about animals too.
To: chance33_98
Correction " He Screwed up " should be changed th "HE's Screwed UP"
A great example of what one Stupid misguided Idiot in clerical garb can do to the Church.
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posted on
06/17/2002 5:22:55 AM PDT
by
chatham
To: chance33_98
I wonder if "the couple" were of opposite genders?
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posted on
06/17/2002 5:29:22 AM PDT
by
ez2muz
To: Types_with_Fist; chance33_98
And corpses....
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posted on
06/17/2002 5:33:12 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
To: chance33_98
There is something fishy in this story. I'll bet the minister was not so naive, but he's pleading ignorance to get out of being proscecuted.
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posted on
06/17/2002 5:36:00 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
To: chance33_98
This clown is almost certainly a Protestant, I wonder which flavor. He ought to be defrocked and held civilly liable for this nonsense.
To: chance33_98
On another thread, an author offers the premise that Christianity is dying. Reading this, I wonder if that author might be correct.
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posted on
06/17/2002 5:39:58 AM PDT
by
neutrino
To: CatoRenasci
This clown is almost certainly a Protestant My money says he's a Methodist.
To: chance33_98
If two men can marry, why not?
To: chance33_98
Hey, at least the guy tendered his resignation. In our day and age, all you have to do is say "perhaps in retrospect that was unwise," and if anything you might even get a salary increase.
The Legacy of Bill Clinton marches on.
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posted on
06/17/2002 6:01:24 AM PDT
by
Illbay
To: chance33_98
he told them before the ceremony that "they were nuts," but they were persistent and he finally agreed to their request. He blesses a sin because the sinners were persistent? This guy is nuts!
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posted on
06/17/2002 6:09:36 AM PDT
by
dpa5923
To: CatoRenasci; Rum Tum Tugger
Sorry, but it looks like
Elwin is one of ours. I don't think there are too many Rev. Elwin Schwabs in Oregon. I would have thought that the AP would have played up the Catholic angle.
To: CatoRenasci
This clown is almost certainly a Protestant, I wonder which flavor. People who live in glass houses...
To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
Someone should speak with his bishop straightaway. Good thing I didn't make any bets on this one, I was almost sure he was one of the real liberal protestants, like unitarians or something.
To: Rum Tum Tugger
My first thought was Presbyterian Church US. Maybe we could start a pool and see who wins? :)
To: chance33_98
"Schwab says he told them before the ceremony that "they were nuts," Yup! And he is a sane human being and righteous Pastor. Some days you just don't want to go out.
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posted on
06/17/2002 6:31:21 AM PDT
by
Movemout
To: Pining_4_TX
Saint Anthony's Catholic Church
Forest Grove, Oregon
Pastor Elwin Schwab
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posted on
06/17/2002 6:31:31 AM PDT
by
shezza
To: shezza
Wow, the Roman Catholic church really is on the bullet train to hell, isn't it?
To: CatoRenasci
real liberal protestants, like unitarians or something.
Um, Unitarians are not Christians, therefore cannot be Protestants, liberal or otherwise.
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posted on
06/17/2002 6:38:10 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
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