In the United States today, any person, male or female, can easily obtain a ministerial license by sending off a hundred dollars in the mail to one, of many, license dispensing organizations. After getting a license, an aspiring organizer can advertise their own brand of religion in a large city newspaper, such as the “New York Times” and, within a week, have at least ten receptive believers in his, or her, congregation. I’m sure Jim Jones and the Peoples’ Temple conjure up horrible visions of murder, suicide, mayhem, and the vicious betrayal of public trust in the minds of the relatives of those unfortunate victims of the Jonestown massacre. Nonetheless, few objectively religious Americans presently realize how easy it is for sexually aberrant leaders within certain religious sects to gain the total confidence of their supplicant families, in order to, over time, ravenously satisfy their sexual appetites with the innocence of young trusting children.
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Religious Sects, Lay Male Clergies, And Sex Offenders
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