Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Gay The Gay Away
This is a novel treatment method. A former youth pastor in Council Bluffs, Iowa, says he had sex with teenage boys because it was his pastoral duty “to help (the teen) with homosexual urges by praying while he had sexual contact with him.”... Court documents indicated Girouex told investigators the most sexual contact he had was with one teen over a four-year period, starting when the boy was 14 years old. Calling the contact “mutual,” he said it had occurred between “25 and 50 times” during that period. When investigators spoke to the teen, who’s now an adult, he told them the number was between 50 and 100. Three other young men who were teenagers when the incidents occurred told investigators the sex occurred at Girouex’s home. All said they went to be helped with “sexual purity.” This story is less about the fact that the accused is a pastor, and more about him being in a position of authority taking advantage of people coming to him for help. Of course, if most religions didn't have hangups about sex in the first place, would these teens even have "sexual purity" issues that required counseling?
