Evangelist Alamo Found Guilty Of Kid-Sex Crimes [Why No Death By Firing Squad?]

AP Report ^ | July 24th 2009

[Steelfish]

Evangelist Alamo found guilty of kid-sex crimes

He calls himself 'prophet that went to jail for the Gospel'

Evangelist Tony Alamo, left, is escorted from federal court in Texarkana, Ark., on Thursday. A jury convicted him Friday of taking five girls across state lines for sex.

TEXARKANA, Ark. - Tony Alamo, a one-time street preacher who became an outfitter of the stars and fought the federal government over claims he underpaid followers for church work, was convicted Friday of taking five girls across state lines for sex.

Alamo stood silently as the verdict was read, a contrast to his occasional mutterings during testimony. His five victims sat looking forward in the gallery. One, a woman he "married" at age 8, wiped away a tear.

"I'm just another one of the prophets that went to jail for the Gospel," Alamo called to reporters afterward as he was escorted to a waiting U.S. marshal's vehicle.

Shouts of "Bye, bye, Bernie" — Alamo was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman — came from a crowd gathered on the Arkansas side of the courthouse, which straddles the Texas-Arkansas border.

Jurors were convinced Alamo had had sex with the girls when they were underage, but deliberated for more than a day to ensure that they considered everything, jury foreman Frank Oller of Texarkana said.

"That was the evidence. That was proven," Oller said. "We came up with a full decision that we are quite satisfied with."

[dmz]

My post should have been addressed to dmz
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but wasn’t and neither was this one. That’s OK, I sure you were just too busy calculating which type of child molester is more whacked to remember to ping me.

Seriously, though, my apologies if I was overly harsh in my comments. Your words struck me immediately as just being wrong. But you are entirely correct, you don’t have to justify your opinions to anyone.

For my own money, though, I don’t have 2 buckets for child molesters, one bucket for the hetero variety and another for the homosexual variety. They are equally despicable from where I sit.

Can you really imagine God looking at 2 child molesters and thinking that he would go easier on the one who at least had the decency to rape a child of the opposite sex? I can’t.

As for your preference about your own kids ... that’s on you. Too weird to comment on.

[the invisib1e hand]

Pity. I stopped paying attention after I said my piece.

Whomever suggested that a screwing underage girls is somehow a "better" sin that screwing underage boys dwells in another world.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"As for your preference about your own kids ... that’s on you. Too weird to comment on."

I believe the rape of a child would be traumatic and confusing on many levels, and having it be by someone of the same sex would just add one more area of confusion.

I've known homosexuals who blamed their sexual orientation, (and "blamed" is the right word), on having been raped by an uncle or other adult when they were little boys.

But then, I'm sure this is way over your head, so let's just drop it.

[dmz]

But then, I’m sure this is way over your head, so let’s just drop it.
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sad that legitimate disagreements need to end with questions of intelligence