Posted on 04/09/2016 12:13:21 AM PDT by kevcol
The former president of Charlotte's LGBT Chamber of Commerce has resigned after he came under fire from a conservative group, which noted that he is on a sex offender list and questioned his role in supporting the city's expanded nondiscrimination ordinance.
Chad Sevearance-Turner had been the president of the chamber, which supported the newly expanded ordinance that gives legal protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.
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Sevearance-Turner was arrested in 1998, when he was 20, and charged in Cherokee County, S.C., with a "lewd act, committing or attempting a lewd act upon a child under 16."
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Fitzgerald said Thursday that Sevearance-Turner's role in supporting the ordinance is troubling.
"No one who is a convicted sex offender should be leading a campaign to allow men to be in women's bathrooms and showers," she said. "It's just common sense."
(Excerpt) Read more at journalnow.com ...
Maybe he can get a job with Paypal?
A gay activist who is a pedophile? That’s unexpected.
Like that needed saying?!
Regards,
I’m still trying to wrap my head around “LBGT” Chamber of Commerce?!
Huh... Not only a fag but a pedophile fag to boot.
Democrats always keep it classy.
He should just start a pedophile chamber of commerce.
Wonder if the incident occurred in a bathroom?
Wonder who he’s going to blame for this? It won’t be the fact that he’s a homo pedophile, it will be everyone else because they are bigots.
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20000720/NEWS/7200320
Music minister fondled us, claim youths in Gaffney church
JULIE WOODCOCK
Published: Thursday, July 20, 2000 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, July 20, 2000 at 12:00 a.m.
A judge heard pretrial testimony Wednesday in the case of a music minister accused of fondling three male teen-age parishioners in their sleep.
Chad Sevearance, 22, of Bessemer City, N.C., is charged with three counts of lewd act on a minor, but will go to trial on only one of the cases today. The other two cases will be tried separately. The names of all three victims are being withheld because of the nature of the charges. Assistant solicitor Tommy Wall called one of the boys to the stand to testify. The boy, now 16, was 14 when he said Sevearance fondled him in July 1998. He and the other alleged victims are members of New Harvest Church of God in Gaffney, where Sevearance was the music minister. The 16-year-old said Sevearance invited him to his Bessemer City home to spend the night, and he agreed. He testified that during the visit, Sevearance asked him how he’d feel about a man performing oral sex on him. “I thought he was joking,” the youth said. He said Sevearance frequently asked him about sexual acts between men and women, which upset him because of the man’s position in the church. He said following a revival meeting, he and Sevearance stayed overnight at the home of one of the other alleged victims. The three slept in the same bed, and during the night the boy said he woke up to find Sevearance fondling him. But he didn’t immediately report it, he said. “I was ashamed,” the boy said. “I thought there was something bad about me. “ The second boy, now 17, said he was 15 when Sevearance invited him to his home, where he showed him a pornographic video of a man and a woman having sex. He said later that night, after he and Sevearance went to sleep in the same bed, he woke up to find the man fondling him. “He told me if I ever told the pastor, he’d make me look like a fool and a liar,” the youth said. Defense attorney Thomas Shealy questioned why, if the boys were all fondled in July 1998, no one found out about the incidents until September. He asked whether Sevearance had done something to make the second boy mad. The boy said he got angry after the pastor announced Sevearance was getting a raise and praised him during a church service. “He gave a speech talking about how good a person Chad was, and Chad wasn’t a good person at all,” he said. The third alleged victim, also 17, said Sevearance had made the same advances to him over a three-week period he stayed in the boy’s home. The boy said Sevearance fondled him several times. Shealy argued
Sorry about the wall of text. There were no paragraphs. It’s easier to read at the source though.
I’m having a technical problem, and can’t finish copying the rest of the article. Basically: Shealy argued the boys didn’t report the sexual assaults until one of them got angry with Sevearance. He accuses them of collusion. The trial is scheduled to start the day of the article.
Who pays the salary of the Charlotte Pedophile Chamber? I’ll bet if a criminal background check was done of every “activist” we’d find a lot more of this.
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20000722/NEWS/7220309
Music minister convicted of fondling boy
TOM LANGHORNE
Published: Saturday, July 22, 2000 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, July 22, 2000 at 12:00 a.m.
Music minister convicted of fondling boy
TOM LANGHORNE
Published: Saturday, July 22, 2000 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, July 22, 2000 at 12:00 a.m.
A Cherokee County jury took less than two hours Friday to find former youth minister Chad Severance guilty of fondling a teen-age church member as the boy slept.
Circuit Judge John Few sentenced Severance, 22, of Bessemer City, N.C., to 10 years in prison on a single felony count of committing a lewd act on a minor. He faces two other counts of the same charge, each involving a different teen-age male church member. All three boys were members of the New Harvest Church of God at 120 Boiling Springs Highway. Severance was hired as the church’s minister of music in May 1998. Few could have sentenced Severance, who had testified that he is innocent, to 15 years in prison. During sentencing, an emotional Severance again said he is not guilty. During this week’s trial, all three of the boys described waking during the night to find Severance fondling them, either at their homes or at his home. They said that in July 1998 he started making excuses to spend the night under the same roof with them. Defense attorney Thomas Shealy argued that the victim in the case for which Severance was being tried — the boy who is now 16 — was lying. Shealy suggested the boy fabricated his accusation about Severance to discredit the youth minister, who had potentially embarrassing information about him and had threatened to tell his father. The boy denied that charge. Assistant Solicitor Tommy Wall, who prosecuted Severance, said after the verdict that the victim and the other two boys who testified deserve credit for bringing Severance to justice. “This has been very embarrassing and trying for them,” Wall said. “I’m glad that their courage in standing up and coming to court was rewarded.” Severance now serves as the minister of music at a Lincolnton, N.C., church.
Tom Langhorne can be reached at tom.langhorne@shj.com, or 582-4511, Ext. 7221.
Again, sorry about the wall of text. They seem to have a rule against paragraphs.
He should just start a pedophile chamber of commerce.
He has the sodomite, I mean Democrat, party as his best supporters.
President of his local NAMBLA chapter?
He probably gets compliments on the hyphen too...
Did they give him a severance package?
A queer is discovered to have no sexual self restraint or moral center. What a surprise.
The words “severance” and “package” in the same sentence makes me cringe.
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