Pious Jerks - Number 2,876,344

I have said it over and over again - too often the religious (and the conservative) hide their criminal behavior behind their statements of piousness. They push some preconceived notions of morality on everyone else while they practice the most perverse sorts of behavior out of the eyes of their constituency. Sometimes I think that guys like this one should get DOUBLE the jail sentence because of the hypocrisy.

THE FLESH WAS WEAK: Yet again, a man has been arrested for soliciting sex with an underage girl, only to find that the object of his lust was an undercover police officer. In this case, police say, Joe Barron, 52, drove his wife's car from Plano, Texas, to Bryan with a box of condoms to meet the "13- year-old" girl after "weeks" of "sexually explicit" chats online and via cell phone. Officers arrested Barron, who immediately broke into tears and "said he was feeling guilt and shame and grief," a Bryan police spokesman said. Barron now faces up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, and has been asked to resign from his job -- as a minister at the Prestonwood Baptist Church, a "megachurch" in Plano that's so large, its 140-acre campus is known to more profane locals as "Six Flags Over Jesus". After his release on bail, police searched Barron's computer and found he was courting other teens, and arrested him again on six more charges. (Dallas Morning News) ...Pastoral tip No. 641: When trying to "save wayward girls," don't try to save them all for yourself.

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