Blog on the Lillypad
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
 | A busy week for IFB scandal
I got up thirty minutes early today to re-check the FFF and track where the two current IFB scandals are. Nothing new on the "Outed" series regarding Jim Vineyard and his alleged erotic and pornographic words to a young lady (under the guide of "counseling"). On the Longview Baptist Temple story where Russell Hirner had been on staff previously as school principal, at least one poster on the Texas Baptist College forum insists that bus children (children---usually poor children----bussed in to church services on Sunday) had made complaints about Hirner in the past but were ignored. The leadership of Longview Baptist Temple has been commended by the police for cooperating fully in the investigation of Hirner for child molestation, yet the church leadership refuses to comment on why Hirner had been discharged (or quit) a year ago. |
According to posts on the LBT forum, Bob Gray (the pastor) has addressed the issue in a fiery sermon in which he blamed everybody else for Hirner's moral collapse but the church leadership.
 If you wonder what kind of church/college/Christian school the Grays are running (for it's Bob Sr. and Bob Jr, another "dynasty style" church), you can check the series of posts called "Tales from the Temple" by James Spurgeon, aka Coyote. I have links to several of my favorites from his pen: |
