A Madison, Wisconsin priest has been arrested after arranging to meet a 14-year-old girl in Clintonville for sex. He had told her he wanted to take the devil out of her body.
Police say 37-year-old Andrew J. Showers of Madison was taken into custody on Sunday August 24. Officers say he had traveled to Clintonville to meet the teen.
Showers was booked into the Waupaca County jail on charges of child enticement, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, and attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child. Whether he intended to play "showers" with the young lady remains to be investigated.
Access by priests and reverends and other religious charlatans to pornography on the Internet has elevated the chances of their acting on their impulses. We've been taught that the line between sin and grace is a very thin one, and Catholic priests by far remain the most numerous cohort of religious child sex abusers because they vowed to never have sex. Tough wager to win. The decent ones at least masturbate, which is also forbidden by the Church which doesn't seem to want to deal with that issue. Masturbation remains the best known secret in the Catholic Church.
On the other hand, Protestant "reverends" (all of them bunch of Evangelicals, Methodists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, Lutherans, Calvinists, Baptists, Pentecostals, as well as the freewheeling scams of independent and non-denominational churches) can marry. Yet, the numbers of reverends caught with their pants down with married women, prostitutes, children... has skyrocketed in recent years.
Not only will the Catholic Church have to deal with the marriage of priests and the priesthood of women, it and the Protestants might have to consider polygamy and polyandry as options to stem the flow of sex abuse. Just as legitimizing the use of Marijuana will stem the illegal trade of the substance, legitimizing all variations on sexual associations will put a stop to the abuses by repressed religious men and women against others. I can see for example a Mother Superior with four male priests at her disposal, or vice versa, an abbot with four nuns at his disposal. In this respect the Mormons and the Muslims have been visionary and in the vanguard of change.
Authorities remind the public that Father Showers is presumed innocent until proven guilty in court. If it can be shown that penetrating a 14-year old girl will indeed chase demons out of her, then the priest will be exonerated. So, please do not rush to judging a man of God.
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