Joe Barron, the Baptist minister taken into custody on Thursday in a sex sting operation has resigned from his position at the Prestonwood Baptist Church following the scandal, Rev. Jack Graham officially unveiled on Saturday, one day after Barron was released from the Brazos County Jail on bail. The Baptist minister, age 52, who is now charged with online solicitation of a minor and faces long years in prison, is member of one of the largest churches in the country, with 26,000 members and 40 ministers. His work focused on married adults. According to his neighbors, Barron and his wife looked like the average normal couple, never displaying out of the ordinary behavior, which is why the entire community is still shocked and upset with the news. Police has been tracking Barron’s actions for some time, and on May 6, when the minister proposed what he thought to be a 13-year-old girl to skip school and meet him for sex, they followed him and arrested him. Barron didn’t suspect for one moment that the ‘girl’ he was supposed to meet was actually an undercover police officer. Following his arrest, police officers found condoms and a web […]
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Baptist Minister Resigns Amid Sex Scandal
Author: DEE CHISAMERA
Source: efluxmedia
Publication Date: 08:08, May 18th 2008
Link: Baptist Minister Resigns Amid Sex Scandal
Source: efluxmedia
Publication Date: 08:08, May 18th 2008
Link: Baptist Minister Resigns Amid Sex Scandal
Stephan: I wonder if we will ever get to a point where, as a culture, we realize that something is off-kilter in many religious groups when it comes to human sexuality. If as many college coaches were involved in such scandals as are to be found in both the Catholic and Protestant clerical establishments we would be having Congressional hearings. It is an unspoken trend, reported only as a matter of individual failure.