Dozens of boys say they were abused in a Christian scouting program that vowed to raise godly men

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/royal-rangers-scouting-program-sex-abuse-christian-rcna247409




Boys in the Assemblies of God join the Royal Rangers for Bible study and backpacking. But the ministry has also drawn sexual predators, an NBC News investigation found.


The boys had been taught to obey their elders, and how to pitch tents and build campfires along the creek-lined woods of western Oregon. They could dutifully recite the motto for the Royal Rangers, a Pentecostal version of the Boy Scouts. “Ready for anything,” they chanted in unison.

But no one had prepared them for this: Adults sometimes do bad things to children. And when people in power find out, they don’t always act.

Travis Reger learned that hard lesson around 1984, at age 10. That’s when, he says, a Royal Rangers commander from his Assemblies of God church in Albany, Oregon, fondled him and another boy at a sleepover.

What haunts Reger most is what he says happened after his father confronted the pastor: practically nothing. By the time the Royal Rangers leader was convicted in 1988 of abusing two other children, at least 18 boys said they had been molested by him and a fellow troop leader, according to lawsuits and police records.

“That’s what gets me choked up every time,” Reger said. “The church never did anything.”

[Coldwater]

1. Speaking of the Church never did anything

[Woodycall]

2. Well, of course they were.

And they will continue to be abused. The mountains of evidence over the past 50 years (or so) indicate that it's practically inevitable because these types of organizations are literal "magnets" for sexual deviates, But it won't stop because of ignorant, feeble-minded people and their overwhelming fear of burning in Hell, I suppose...

[Skittles]

3. religion is the ultimate child grooming

yup