Arkansas evangelist being tried on charges of sex crimes against young girls
15 July 2009 by Stardust
Some of you may remember televangelist Tony Alamo. He was responsible for some extremely intense anti-Catholic, anti-Pope hate mail that was circulating in the 1980’s (probably accompanied by some request for donations of some sort.)
Snippet from Wiki:
Alamo’s followers sometimes distribute tracts of his writings publicly. The tracts predict impending doom and Armageddon and invite the reader to accept Jesus as his or her savior while condemning Catholicism, the Pope and the American government as a Satanic conspiracy behind events such as 9/11, the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the John F. Kennedy assassination. Tracts currently being distributed include a picture of Alamo circa 1986. In a tract distributed shortly before the siege of the Branch Davidian establishment in Waco, Texas, Alamo protested the media’s use of the word “compound” to describe the campus of his seminary and the word “cult” to describe his ministry.
Recently, as reported in the news, Alamo is being accused of taking underage girls across state lines for sex. Investigators say that one of the girls was only 9 years-old.
Ark. evangelist’s accusers expected in court
Here is a message from the Tony Alamo Ministries cult website boo-hooing that Alamo is being persecuted:
Pastor Alamo has been criticizing the government for forty-five years with the truth and they’ve been slinging false accusations for forty-five years. You have to decide who you’re going to believe–this government which has already been proven to be socialistic and communistic, or Pastor Alamo who is teaching you the truth. Either you believe Pastor Alamo or the homosexual Pope.
Ironic that Alamo is accusing the Pope of being homosexual when Alamo himself is being investigated for polygamy, child abuse, child pornography, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and is formally charged with taking children across state lines to have sex with them after his alleged victims came forward to testify against him.
Alamo’s attorneys state “the girls traveled across the country to further his ministry’s outreach.”
Alamo’s sheeple write:
The judges, the backsliders, prosecuting attorneys, and government agencies are all in a conspiracy to destroy Pastor Alamo, but God is on the throne and He will destroy.
H/T once again to ChuckA
15 July 2009, on 10:11 am
“You have to decide who you’re going to believe–this government which has already been proven to be socialistic and communistic, or Pastor Alamo who is teaching you the truth. Either you believe Pastor Alamo or the homosexual Pope.”
I can barely make sense of this. Who is on who’s side here? This church likes false dichotomies and straw men. That said, I think I do trust a communist, a socialist, and a homosexual more than I trust Alamo. There isn’t even any question.
15 July 2009, on 10:52 am
^^ Piuvodku…nope, no question. This guy is an evil lunatic.
15 July 2009, on 11:11 am
It’s hard for me to believe that it’s all one big conspiracy. It looks like Alamo is following in the footsteps of his heavenly father by getting himself off on abusing the innocent.
15 July 2009, on 11:15 am
Not ironic at all; and in fact, not even surprising. In evangelical circles, fucking and otherwise abusing children nothing more than a spiritual misdemeanor, whereas catching a touch of “teh gay” falls somewhere between a felony and a capital crime.
Now from my perspective, I think that having a gay pope would be far preferable to having one who’s asexual by force/repression. But that just reflects my own view of what’s healthy and what isn’t.
15 July 2009, on 2:15 pm
^^^ (echoing Piuvodky and Stardust)…nope, no question. This guy is an evil lunatic. And anyone who followed this asshole through the years…and swallowed his bullshit…had to be a complete religiously brainwashed “retard”!
When I received one of his tracts, back in the later 1980s…or possibly early ’90s…I was just realizing that I was definitely an atheist. I thought I might still have it in a box somewhere; but on second thought, it probably got tossed in the garbage. At the time, of course, I had absolutely no knowledge of just HOW fucked up Alamo was; just that, in spite of my own longtime Ex-Catholic resentment for the Pope & Church, Alamo’s intense, even noticeably insane, vitriol was rather startling. I remember thinking: “How did he get MY address? (WTF?…Holy Shit!!!)
[Reminds me of Max Bialystock in “The Producers”:
“They all come here…how do they find me?”
Anyway…
Nice job, by the way, Stardust, on gathering so many details. Again, it’s astounding how insidiously warped so many, lurking in the woods, Fundie types are when it comes to the brainwashing, abuse, and frequent cases of incest and actual child molestation. The traditional, albeit poorly disguised, hatred of all things sexual that is part and parcel in the dogmas…and the practice…of both Christianity and Islam is all too often overlooked. Not surprising, of course, considering the all too common compartmentalization practiced by the common majority of believers. Christopher Hitchens, most notably, often points that out in many of his debates and talks.
Pardon some further blabbing, Stardust…
Somewhat OT, but worth a look(?), here are two glimpses of Hitch’s frequent articulateness(?)…
1st…(Newer?) one I hadn’t seen before:
Christopher Hitchens Interview | Hitchens on religion
“hitch vs. god”
http://media.slangtv.com/_Christopher-Hitchens-Interview-Hitchens-on-religion/VIDEO/459480/72042.html
2nd…and older…
a short excerpt from his debate with Dinesh D’Souza at the 2008 Freedom Fest (on a sexually related topic?)…with a ‘curious’ summation of the frequency of the “Virgin Birth” legend.
“Why The Virgin Birth Is Important For Christians”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5v42jtet5c
Yeah…and then the World ends up with total fucktard Fundies like “Reverend” Alamo!
15 July 2009, on 4:10 pm
Off topic…my aunt just sent me a “Does god exist” poll and she voted yes and wrote that her reason is ” I know because He lives in my heart and my life is impacted because of my faith in His Word, the Holy Scriptures.”
Ok, that’s evidence for me.
15 July 2009, on 8:29 pm
Wow. He’s still alive? Damn. I remember him from his days in SoCal; he was a vile deceitful pervert even then. His followers were always trying to get teenagers to “drop by for fellowship”. Most of us understood that “fellowship” was code for “so the big guy can get his rocks off”. Yuck. May he drop dead sooner rather than later.
15 July 2009, on 8:55 pm
I think everyone here has covered the bases on this one. You’ve left me with nothing more to say except:
I’m not surprised. At all.
By the way, has anyone else been following the story behind the stories of the dalliances of such fine public servants as Sen. Ensign and Gov. Sanford? (whew)
Namely, “The Family”?
16 July 2009, on 12:22 am
“The judges, the backsliders, prosecuting attorneys, and government agencies are all in a conspiracy to destroy Pastor Alamo, but God is on the throne and He will destroy.”
Good Lard; the only thing worse than a fucktard-fundie is a fucktard-fundie conspiracy theorist.
“Ironic that Alamo is accusing the Pope of being homosexual when Alamo himself is being investigated for polygamy, child abuse, child pornography, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and is formally charged with taking children across state lines to have sex with them after his alleged victims came forward to testify against him.”
Even more ironic considering which one of the things in this long list is NOT against the law. And I gotta give them this; the Pope does wear a dress and red Prada slippers…hmmm. Just saying.
16 July 2009, on 12:37 pm
Either you believe Pastor Alamo or the homosexual Pope
What, no third option? I’m playing the false dilemma fallacy card.
Anyone who makes such absurd absolutist claims deserves a flogging.
Would you rather have a gay pope, or a former Hitler Youth pope? Oh wait, we already have the former…
Why do fundies always wind up being the ones who fall to such extreme sexual perversions? Is it due to years of repression?
16 July 2009, on 1:17 pm
^ David J?…
Somehow your line: “Is it due to years of repression?”…plus…the recent notions of the C Street, or “The Family” (ala “communal”), and the whole idea of “Lordly” absolutist claims…
(plus a sudden “Thors’ day” need for comic relief?)…
reminds me of this old grovelling ‘chestnut’ clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76WQzVJ434
16 July 2009, on 10:02 pm
ChuckA, one of my favorite cinematic scenes of all time. I also love “blessed are the cheesemakers… which refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.”
16 July 2009, on 10:07 pm
David, I LOVE that scene! LOLOL! Thanks for making my night with that one!
17 July 2009, on 7:17 pm
DRBastid, there is yet another C-Street-Sinner. A Mississippi GOP-representative, offered Trent Lott’s Senate seat, turned it down because his mistress told him to. The wronged wife names the mistress and several C-Streeters in her divorce brief, calling it “alienation of affections”. Too bad the mistress is just a woman…
Another C Street Vet Falls to an Extramarital Affair