Church hires convicted child sex offender as pastor, bans children (PICTURED)

Darrell Gilyard, Convicted Child Predator, Pastor
The Black church is certainly in disarray these days, it seems, as there is daily news about a scandal involving a preacher presiding over a Black congregation. Darrel Gilyard is a convicted sex offender that was recently chosen as the Pastor of Christian Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church.

He was once the Pastor of a megachurch in Jacksonville, FL but he was forced to step down after he was convicted of molesting a teen girl and sending inappropriate messages to another in 2009. No more than 2 months after he had been released from prison he had found a new church to spread God’s word in, but with one major stipulation: No minors are allowed to attend church service any longer since Gilyard took over. According to Deacon Paul S. Newman, “He was down on the ground, and the church was down on the ground, and we both needed to get up”.

It’s good to see that they were willing to give him a second chance but it seems quite drastic for the church to ban youth members from attending just for the sake of having Gilyard as Pastor. Not everyone seems to be as comfortable with the situation going on at the church however. He is regularly met by protesters as he arrives at the church on Sundays and other pastors in the area have also expressed their disdain for what is happening. “A minister who has done such evil should not be restored to the pulpit until his repentance is as notorious as his sin”, says George Harvey, pastor of Mt. Charity Baptist Church.

I agree with the side that is against this set up almost wholeheartedly but I also remember a time when every other week Catholic priests were being convicted of molesting young boys and how their parishioners supported them and continued coming to service as well. I would like to believe that the church is the safest place for our children but that just does not seem to be the case any longer.

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