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Initech

(100,090 posts)
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 01:58 PM Feb 2018

Kevin Swanson Blames Larry Nassar's Victims For Enticing Him Through Gymnastics

On his radio program today, extremist anti-LGBTQ pastor Kevin Swanson attributed USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of more than 150 women and girls he treated, in part, to the fact that gymnastics encourages “a fair amount of immodesty.”

Citing a variety of supposed dangers, such as the use of open showers, Swanson warned Christian parents against allowing their children to participate in sports because “sports tend to focus on the body.”

“There is an infatuation with the body,” he said, “and, of course, the sexual aspects of the body as well. Some sports encourage immodesty, revealing large portions of the body and this happens in some sports. These are the risky sports. Here they are, what are the risky sports? Gymnastics. Gymnastics and swimming. These are the sports in which there is an added risk.”

“Why are all of the gymnasts [at] more of a risk than other sports?” Swanson asked. “Do you really want your daughters involved in a sport that involves a fair amount of immodesty in which red-blooded American male coaches are interacting with these girls? Or, worse yet, where the infatuation of the body eventually effects the lesbian coaches?”

Swanson credited the “providence of God” for bringing to light the revelations about Nassar because “God is not going to put up with 20 years of this.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kevin-swanson-blames-larry-nassar-sexual-assault-scandal-on-the-fact-that-gymnastics-involves-a-fair-amount-of-immodesty/




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Kevin Swanson Blames Larry Nassar's Victims For Enticing Him Through Gymnastics (Original Post) Initech Feb 2018 OP
How much you wanna bet that spooky3 Feb 2018 #1
I really wonder what that guy keeps locked up in his basement. Initech Feb 2018 #7
Fuck this guy. 47of74 Feb 2018 #2
Which tells us what he thinks when he sees a little girl's legs. appleannie1943 Feb 2018 #3
another fake christian Angry Dragon Feb 2018 #4
No question, this "pastor" will have a Larry Craig moment soon BoneyardDem Feb 2018 #5
I'm surprised he hasn't already! Initech Feb 2018 #8
A Pedophile pastor ? How very unusual these days................... lunasun Feb 2018 #6
God was OK with 19 Years, but 20??? No Way! maxrandb Feb 2018 #9
Go fuck yourself and the Bible you rode in on! Glamrock Feb 2018 #10

spooky3

(34,462 posts)
1. How much you wanna bet that
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 02:04 PM
Feb 2018

Kevin spends wayyyyyy too much time “gathering evidence” about bodies?

appleannie1943

(1,303 posts)
3. Which tells us what he thinks when he sees a little girl's legs.
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 02:06 PM
Feb 2018

And of course, it is the little girl's fault if he thinks unclean thoughts. Pervert.

 

BoneyardDem

(1,202 posts)
5. No question, this "pastor" will have a Larry Craig moment soon
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 02:11 PM
Feb 2018

those who defend the indefensible the loudest............................

maxrandb

(15,344 posts)
9. God was OK with 19 Years, but 20??? No Way!
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 02:20 PM
Feb 2018

It's tragic that cretins like Kevin Swanson share the same earth as the rest of us.

"And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin.
Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less.
Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three.
Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.
Five is right out!

Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."

Glamrock

(11,802 posts)
10. Go fuck yourself and the Bible you rode in on!
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 03:31 PM
Feb 2018

Asshole!

See, there's this thing called self control. And there's this other thing called respect for other people. And guess what else? That respect even lends itself to the opposite gender! Hard to believe, I know. Oh fuck it, there's no reaching these people.

To quote a great man, "please proceed." The more these evangelical hypocrites defend pedophiles, the more people will see them as the hypocrites they are.

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