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McEntee: Garn's hot tub interlude much more than a 'mistake'
Salt Lake Tribune ^
| March 13, 2010
| Peg McEntee
Posted on 03/14/2010 9:13:38 AM PDT by Colofornian
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But under the circumstances, what Garn did amounts to exploitation of an underage girl...Garn can say he expects public humiliation, but can't allow a "foolish mistake to continue to shadow my life." Well, let's get it straight. Getting naked in a hot tub with a 15-year-old goes far beyond a "mistake."
A crime may have been committed here. And this goes beyond a couple of "creepy" mistakes. (The victim says she was in a hot tub with Garn on two occasions, the first shortly after she just turned 15...just six years after he taught her Lds Sunday School when she was a fourth grader...he was also her employer...which meant he abused the trust and authority he had and had built up).
To: Colofornian
Not sayin’ it was right, but coincidence does not prove causation. Unless “we” are trained mental health experts with access to the files, it’s probably time to let this go. Garn may be a creep but he resigned. If there is evidence of crime, let the Utah authorities go after him tooth and nail.
If not, can we drop it now?
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posted on
03/14/2010 9:19:13 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: bigbob
If we were to gather up all the manure in this case we would have enough fertilizer for the entire state of Utah for the next ten years...
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posted on
03/14/2010 9:23:30 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: Colofornian
Well, let's get it straight. Getting naked in a hot tub with a 15-year-old goes far beyond a "mistake."
Unless you're a Hollywood director. Then you can forcibly sodomize said 15-year-old girl and be considered a "genius".
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posted on
03/14/2010 9:25:43 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Colofornian; Pebcak
What has gone wrong in our society that creeps like this think they have the right to do things like this, and without repercussions?
Bear in mind, though, that if he had been fLDS, it would have been “acceptable” and people on many blogs (and even here) would be saying that preventing him from molesting a child was interfering with his first amendment religious rights.
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posted on
03/14/2010 9:29:14 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm? John Page, 1744-1808)
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posted on
03/14/2010 9:30:13 AM PDT
by
narses
("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
To: bigbob
Seems to me like there’s evidence of a crime (his confession, her admission). The girl was barely 15. He was her Sunday school teacher and boss. Anywhere but Utah (and Hollywood), that would be a crime. Resignation is not enough. Jail the jerk.
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posted on
03/14/2010 9:31:16 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm? John Page, 1744-1808)
To: reaganaut; Elsie; Tennessee Nana; Dr. Eckleburg; Alex Murphy; HarleyD; P-Marlowe; Quix
Mormon Hot Tub Party Ping!
Sometimes it make me break out in a cold sweat! One two three four!
Hot tub! Ha! Da!
Ah-full of water!
I say hot tub! Ha!
Day! Ba! Very, very hot... Very hot! Da!
Hot tub! Gonna get ya hot-a!
Gonna make ya sweat! Hey! Say!
Hot tub! Rub a dub in the hot tub!
Rub a dub with me!
Should I get in the hot tub?
(Yeah!)
Will it make me sweat?
(Yeah!)
Should I get in the hot tub?
(Yeah!)
Will it make me wet?
(Yeah!)
Well, well, well...
Hot tub! Ah!
Get in!
Gonna get in the water!
Gonna make me sweat! Ah!
Here I go in the hot tub!
HHHHIIIGGGHH!!
Too hot in the hot tub! Ma!
Burn myself!
Make it cooler!
Good G,d!
Gonna make me...
I'm gonna get in the hot tub..
I'm gonna get in the hot tub..
I'm gonna get in the hot tub..
Ha! Lilin! Lidilin! Eh!
A gonna make me sweat-ah!
Dah! Gonna make me sweat!
Gonna make me sweat-ah!
Dah! Gonna get me in the hot tub!
I can't stand it!
Here I go! I can't stand it!
Here I go in the hot tub!
Gonna get in the hot tub!
Gonna get it wet-ah!
Good G.d!
HHHIIIIGGHHH!! Ha!
Good G.d!
Rub a dub!
In the hot tub!
Rub a dub with me!
Good G,d!
Rub a dub in the hot tub!
Gonna set me free!
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posted on
03/14/2010 9:42:20 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(We aren't sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners. (R.C. Sproul))
To: MizSterious; Colofornian; Utah Binger; bigbob; darkwing104
Seems to me like theres evidence of a crime (his confession, her admission). The girl was barely 15. He was her Sunday school teacher and boss. Anywhere but Utah (and Hollywood), that would be a crime. Resignation is not enough. Jail the jerk. It appears to me that Garn paid $150,000 to avoid being listed on the registered sex offender list for life!
In retrospect, that must have seemed like quite a bargain.
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posted on
03/14/2010 9:44:25 AM PDT
by
greyfoxx39
("The Economy Is So Bad, Even 'Rosy Scenario' Lost Her Job"-Jim Geraghty)
To: Colofornian
He is a pathetic loser and she is no better.
Blaming her pill abuse and that on getting into a hottub? PLEASE! Its not like she was forced into that hottub.
She wants money and attention.
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posted on
03/14/2010 9:53:57 AM PDT
by
JRochelle
(My predictions on 2/3/2010: It will be Thune/Rubio in '12.)
To: Bratch
Well, let’s get it straight. Getting naked in a hot tub with a 15-year-old goes far beyond a “mistake.”
Unless you’re a Hollywood director. Then you can forcibly sodomize said 15-year-old girl and be considered a “genius”.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I almost sprayed coffee on my monitor! Funny (but sad) observation!
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:00:11 AM PDT
by
Artcore
To: Colofornian
Wasnt this the guy the Utah legislation all applauded when this came out ???
Dont any of them have a sense of dencency and shame ???
To: greyfoxx39
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:21:43 AM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Mount Carmel Utah, Twelve Miles East of Zion National Park)
To: Bratch
Unless you're a Hollywood director. Then you can forcibly sodomize said 15-year-old girl and be considered a "genius". To be fair, Polanski's interlude was with a 13 y/o. That's different, whether because she's two years younger, because he drugged her first, because he's been convicted of the rape, or because he's a liberal. In any case, we're as shocked at the conservative LDS pervert's actions as we are at the harassment that Polanski is receiving from conservatives with no compassion.
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:26:04 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: Gamecock
Mormon Hot Tub Party Ping
- - — - - - -
ROFL.
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:31:14 AM PDT
by
reaganaut
(Don't mind me, I did a little to much LDS in the 80's)
To: Colofornian
Garn says he considered it extortion, but arranged for her to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
- - - - - —
If it was extortion, then he should have gone to the police not paid her and make her sign a “nondisclosure agreement”.
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:33:17 AM PDT
by
reaganaut
(Don't mind me, I did a little to much LDS in the 80's)
To: Colofornian
, she’s going through a divorce and a custody battle and went public for her own peace of mind.
- - - - - - - - -
More likely she went public to avoid it being used against her in the divorce and custody fight.
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:35:10 AM PDT
by
reaganaut
(Don't mind me, I did a little to much LDS in the 80's)
To: bigbob
Peg McEntee
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:38:43 AM PDT
by
kcvl
To: kcvl
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:50:35 AM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Mount Carmel Utah, Twelve Miles East of Zion National Park)
To: greyfoxx39
Did she get the money or did her parents? Was there a lawyer who drew up the confidentiality agreement?
And if her parents knew why didn’t they contact they authorities right after it happened?
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posted on
03/14/2010 11:02:37 AM PDT
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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