WTF is wrong with these people? Love Demonstrated Ministries?

[Hepburn]

Pastor accused of dragging girl behind his van

A trainer also faces charges in incident at boot camp

A San Antonio pastor and an employee of his Christian boot camp were arrested Friday on aggravated assault charges, accused of dragging a girl behind a van after she failed to keep up during a running exercise.

Investigators with the Nueces County Sheriff's Office arrested Charles E. Flowers, 46, shortly before noon at the Faith Outreach Center in northwest San Antonio, said Brad E. Bailey, a spokesman for the Schertz Police Department.

Bailey said boot camp trainer Stephanie Bassitt, 20, was later arrested without incident at her home in Kirby.

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Authorities said both Flowers and Bassitt restrained the girl June 12, tying her to the back of a van with a piece of rope before dragging her on her stomach at the Love Demonstrated Ministries' boot camp in Banquete, about 10 miles west of Corpus Christi.

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chron.com%2Fdisp%2Fstory.mpl%2Fmetropolitan%2F5045830.html

LOVE DEMONSTRATED MINISTRIES??? Ummmm....WHO would Jesus drag behind a van to show Christian love?

GMAFB!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. harsh love, eh?

like the protestant preachers who beat the kids, raped the boys and girls; like the catholic priests who sexually abused tens of thousands since 1960 in the US alone; like the ph hell, the list is endless. or seems like it.

[zanne]

2. Gimme that ole' time religion.....nt

[Ilsa]

3. There are days when I wish we could return the punishment to them...

drag them behind vans, starve them, beat them, etc. They seem to take pride in being assholes.

This is in the same county as the former Home for boys and girls.

[RC]

12. Naa, just bury'em up to their waist and

Stone'em. The Bible aproves, don'tchaknow?

[Richard Steele]

4. It's the worst assholes who try to pose as the most decent and pure among us. nm

[loves_dulcinea]

5. in my experience,

there are a great many people like that in texas, which would explain why i left.

[Th1onein]

10. HEY!

I've said it many times before: When it comes to Texas, you can't judge everyone by what SOME idiots here do. Texas has historically been a DEMOCRATIC state. My family comes from Galveston County, which is even now, mostly DEMOCRATIC. Most people in Texas are good-hearted people, honest, hard-working people, who are really liberal at heart. They've been bamboozled, just like a lot of other people, during the Republican Revolution. These people, who dragged this person behind their van, in some version of "tough love" are Fundie idiots, and I bet every state has at least a few; they're not indigenous just to Texas.

[undeterred]

6. What the hell is wrong with Texas?

I've never been there, and I'd be afraid to drive through a tiny piece of it.

[Hepburn]

7. I am just amazed everytime I read about someone beating the hell...

...out ot a kid to teach them to not be violent, to be loving and to comply with rules.

Unbelievable how totally stupid some of the fundies truly are!

[NMMNG]

8. If that's their version of love I'd be terrified to see their version of hate

:scared:

[Hepburn]

9. Bingo! n/t

[NMMNG]

13. The power of Christ compels you!

:spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank:

[BlooInBloo]

11. It's what christians do.