Child Sexual Abuse: Can We Ignore It?

Some may feel that sex abuse and the 'new' sexuality do not fall within the parameters of exposing spiritual deception, but we believe it does. Why are we doing this? It's quite simple, really. What is sown today will bear fruit tomorrow. In other words, what we do for or against the younger generation (children, teens, and young adults) today will be evident in how they function as Christians tomorrow. If we give them sexual abuse, deceit, sensuality, mysticism, pride, arrogance, carnality, lust, surely we must realize what this will reap in the future. ...

The "new" sexuality that has been brought into the church through emerging contemplative advocates has paved the way for even more abuse to take place because of the carnal, sensual nature of the "new" sexuality and the "new" spirituality. One of the things that is very troubling about that is while the emerging church movement says they are wanting to reach out to the young people of this culture (blaming fundamentalist Christians for not doing that satisfactorily), many of these young people have been sexually abused as children, then they come into an emerging church where homosexuality is becoming more widely embraced, and they come into a contemplative church where things like tantric sex are being subtly introduced. And they come into a carnal church that abuses children and then covers it up.

While the "new" evangelicals boast that they are helping young people far more than the previous generation did, with their updated methods and ideas, the opposite is true. What young people need today is the Word of God AND a pure church.

Now we know that the church can only be pure as it submits itself to Jesus Christ and allows His purity and His life to dwell within us as believers in Christ. We cannot have this purity apart from Him.

By turning to false "gods," so to speak - contemplative mysticism, spiritual disciplines, new sexuality, social justice, purpose-driven, etc. - the church is doing more harm than good to these wounded young people.

God cannot and will not use a church that is arrogant, prideful, lustful, and deceptive. We call upon Christian pastors and leaders who have allowed these vices into their own lives and into their churches to repent, allow God to cleanse, and be truly used of God to help young people.

In the past several days, since our story about Calvary Chapel was released, we have heard from many people, a number who have shared their own or their children's personal accounts of abuse and cover up (not all are within Calvary Chapel). Why weren't these stories reported to authorities, some may ask. Anyone who knows anything about child molestation knows that the victim often feels too ashamed to tell about his or her abuse. And in the case where abuse takes place in a church, there is often coercion to "deal" with the matter privately within the confines of the local church.

But sadly, often the abuse is NOT dealt with and the molester is moved to a new location. We saw this tragedy happen in the Catholic church. But it is happening in the Christian church as well. We know there are many churches who do protect their children - for this you are commended. But there are too many that don't.

The majority of people who contacted us after our article last week were extremely supportive of this story coming out. But a few were angry and upset. Some of those felt that the story should not have been released as this is a "private" matter for the church, not for the world to see. New believers will stumble, they say, by this coming out. This is nothing but gossip and so on. Basically, what they are saying is that this shouldn't be talked about publically. But that poses a problem because it isn't being dealt with within the church. Children are being abused, and adult leaders are covering it up.

Today, a lot of Christian figures talk about "revival" and a "new" reformation taking place. However, we should note that whenever true revival has taken place in the past, it was a revival of repentance. People would be humbly confessing their sins. This is a sharp contrast to today's "revival" mentality where sins are pushed under the rug, never dealt with - or worse yet, they are no longer called sin. A "new" reformation or revival that is fleshly, devilish, and sensual is not a reformation from God at all.

Note of Apology: We apologize that some of the material you read in this week's newsletter will be difficult to read and view and perhaps feel offensive. But these things need to be brought out of the secret corners, and in so doing perhaps some children will be saved from abuse. With statistics showing that a very high percentage of boys and girls are molested by the time they are 18, we cannot ignore what is happening in the church, as painful as it may be to all of us.

Obama Administration Declares Children as ‘Sexual Beings’ By Richard Swier, Red County News

Indiana University Zoologist Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey shocked the nation in 1948 with the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.

Since the publication of these two reports Dr. Kinsey and his research have been scientifically debunked.

However, he lives on in the hearts and minds of the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender movement as a sage. Gays, when confronted with their behaviors, always say the person confronting them is gay also. This has most recently been used against Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry who has been called gay.

According to Robert H. Knight, “[T]his comes from Kinsey stating that 95 percent of men committed sexual crimes such as rape, sodomy, incest, homosexuality, adultery, public exposure, fornication or other offenses. If most men were sexual criminals of one sort or another, Kinsey reasoned, then society should redefine what is ‘normal’ and reduce penalties for sex offenses.”

It appears that the Obama administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human services agree with Dr. Kinsey. Time to redefine “normal”, especially in children. Click here to continue reading.

Regarding our article from 8/25/11, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa named in Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuit, Lighthouse Trails received many responses. We have decided to post some of them as we think it is important for our readers to see what is being said by others. We have included the negative comments we received also.

Mental Health Group Looks to Remove Stigma From Pedophilia – American Psychological Association’s Role in These Efforts

Pedophiles are, under the best of circumstances, extremely difficult to convict. Often members of revered professions in the community, accused pedophiles appear in court in three-piece suits, as well dressed and well spoken as the judges themselves, who can’t bring themselves to believe that such upstanding citizens could be guilty of such heinous crimes. The terrified, violated children are no match for them....

God’s view of child abuse can be capsulated in the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones” (Luke 17:2).

A group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals say it’s time to change the way society views individuals who have physical attractions to children.

The organization, which calls itself B4U-Act, is lobbying for changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, the guideline of standards on mental health that’s put together by the American Psychiatric Association.

The group says its mission is to help pedophiles before they create a crisis, and to do so by offering a less critical view of the disorder.

“Stigmatizing and stereotyping minor-attracted people inflames the fears of minor-attracted people, mental health professionals and the public, without contributing to an understanding of minor-attracted people or the issue of child sexual abuse,” reads the organization’s website. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/24/mental-health-group-looks-to-remove-stigma-from-pedophilia/#ixzz1WKeE1gqQ

Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa named in Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

Former Child Star Says Pedophilia No. 1 Problem for Children in Hollywood

72 charged in probe of child sexual abuse network

“A Slap in Face to Victims” – Catholic Priest Admits to Abusing Children; Refuses to Give Up Priesthood

Predators looking for [children] and teens to molest want to be in situations of access or trust to the target kids. These are some of the most likely places predators find that access:

Schools as teachers, coaches, librarians, custodians, etc.
Boy Scout groups, Big Brother programs
Churches & youth groups
Libraries, bookstores, adult bookstores
Public parks
Health spas, YMCAs
Motels & hotels
Malls, movie theaters
Picking up hitchhikers
Beaches & lakes
Video arcades, Miniature golf courses
Dungeons & Dragons & Other fantasy related setups
Bowling alleys & skating rinks
Daycare centers
Internet chat rooms, news groups, kids’ websites and forums
(from chapter 4 of The Color of Pain)

Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope, and going public with his story for the first time

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – Terry Kohut has kept a dark secret for nearly 50 years. Now he is breaking his silence, becoming a key figure in the sex-abuse crisis in the Catholic Church and the growing controversy over what Pope Benedict XVI did about it.

When Kohut was barely a teen, and for years afterward, he says, he was sexually molested and assaulted by the headmaster and priest of the school where he lived, St. John’s School for the Deaf, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. What occurred there is one of the most notorious cases of sex abuse in the Catholic Church.

Kohut was not alone. From 1950 to 1974 the headmaster of St. Johns, Father Lawrence C. Murphy, raped and molested as many as 200 deaf boys, according to court and church documents.

Kohut has now filed the first sex-abuse lawsuit against the Vatican actually naming Pope Benedict, previously known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as a defendant.

Ratzinger was once head of the Vatican’s powerful CDF, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, charged in certain circumstances with investigating the sexual abuse of minors by priests. And though church records show the abuse by Father Murphy was brought to the attention of Ratzinger and the CDF years ago, a church trial against the headmaster was stopped and he was allowed to remain a priest.

The Vatican’s “policy of secrecy” in abuse cases, and its “directives to conceal the sexual abuse of children” by priests, the lawsuit says, helped bring about the abuse of Kohut and others by Father Murphy.

Kohut has never before gone public or spoken about what Father Murphy did to him. He has remained anonymous in the suit, listed only as “John Doe 16,” one of dozens of men alleging abuse.

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Kohut, 60, spoke with his hands and through an interpreter, describing how the abuse by Father Murphy started....

What happened to Kohut and the other deaf boys -– and the handling of the Murphy case by Ratzinger’s office – are central issues in a widening examination of the church’s role in covering up sexual abuse by priests. Did that approach reach as high as the man who would become the pope? Click here to continue reading.

We live in a world where multiculturalism, secular humanism, and occultism are rising like a monstrous tsunami in opposition to God’s ways and moral guidelines. Compromise has become the norm, and God’s unchanging Truth is dismissed as an obstacle to solidarity. Rarely has it been more difficult for Christian parents to pass their faith and values on to their children.

Public schools have long been undermining the Biblical faith and morality of Christian children. Through sex education using manipulative techniques such as “values clarification”[1] and facilitated dialogue, they expose children to sexual lifestyles that God’s people were warned never to imagine or experience.

The same mind-changing techniques are used to promote all kinds of spiritual alternatives to Christianity. Classroom projects making Hindu gods, New Age rituals to a mystical Mother Earth, interpretations of Tarot cards, and “worry dolls” that supposedly ward off evil spirits are merely four examples of today’s promotional blitz of popular occultism.[2]

In addition, today’s children live in a world that is filled with movies, music, toys, and video games that promote a worldview that is diametrically opposed to Christianity. Click here to continue

The church’s sexual civil war is going global. Thankfully, there’s good news to report from the Mexican front via the Washington Post as the Presbyterian Church (USA) suffers another loss because of their ungodly support of homosexuality.

Presbyterian leadership in the US (like several other mainline US denominations) have been steadily bleeding memberships after capitulating to homosexual religious activists entrenched in the organizations. Click here to continue reading.

There are millions and millions of children and teens who are exploited by child pornographers. Child pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry. If you don't believe that, just call the Child Exploitation Division of any major city.