Anti-gay activist confesses to molesting children for 25 years

[JRLeft]

Caleb Hesse, 52, is a well known anti-gay activist and former elementary school teacher. He has been charged with four lewd acts on a child. The investigation is in its early stages and incidents of abuse going back to 1987 have been reported, but that is by no means a cut off point for Hesse's abusive history and authorities are encouraging anyone with knowledge of past abuses to please contact them. Some of Hesse's victims may now be 40+ years old.

The former youth group volunteer confessed to police that he had "inappropriate" contact with children over the last three decades, with the most recent sexual abuse happening in the last week. Many of the abuses took place at summer camps hosted by the Evangelical Free Church of Yucca Valley where Hesse was an active participant and supervisor since the early 1980s.

It has been locally reported by KESQ.com that Hesse is currently being held on $2.5 million bail at Morongo Basin Jail.

Hesse's church, the Evangelical Free Church of Yucca Valley, is incredibly homophobic and requires members to actively disavow the homosexual lifestyle if they wish to remain members. Homosexual activity is taboo and the bylines of the church say that they recognize people do have homosexual feelings -- but members are expected to not acknowledge or act on them. The church lays out specific guidelines, including that if one is a known homosexual they must prove they have lived a godly life for a minimum of 5 years. How this criteria is determined or verified has not been detailed.

http://www.examiner.com/article/anti-gay-activist-confesses-to-molesting-children-for-25-years

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Oh wait, the gay hater guy was doing

what they accuse LGBT people of doing? Get me my irony meter.

[Panasonic]

2. You'll have to spring for a new one..

It's bound to get even more ridiculous....

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. We have been getting a few of those

but that talking point now has a few holes.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Former elementary school teacher?

I'm going to be ill.

[Initech]

5. I hear Jerry Sandusky is looking for a roommate in prison...

[sakabatou]

6. Bleagh

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. "the homosexual lifestyle"

More crappy journalism.

[LiberalAndProud]

8. I disagree.

I don't think it's crappy journalism. That is what the congregation believes; that homosexual feelings aren't bad if you don't act on them (i.e. live the "lifestyle&quot . This is why the gay politician who acts on his feelings clandestinely is not to be condemned as a hypocrite in these circles He disavows the "lifestyle' and is therefore in sync with the antigay sentiment. All is well in their world.

[Ohio Joe]

9. I think we should listen to the political right-wing and start profiling... Child molesters

White, religious fundamentalists that have jobs around kids.

We should probably pass a law that keeps them away from children... For the children's sake.