Robert Morris Resigned He was the senior pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, when a “young woman” he employed Previously hospitalized The man she allegedly had an “inappropriate relationship” with when she was in her early 20s was actually 12 years old.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Trump once described Morris as a “spiritual advisor.” We don’t know what advice Morris gave Trump, but since he and Morris both confessed or attested to being accomplices to rape, they would have had plenty to talk about.
Morris acknowledged having had an inappropriate relationship with an adolescent girl but said it was no big deal: he dismissed it as a “moral failing.” Christian Post Last week he said (readers should substitute “criminal” for “inappropriate”):
“When I was in my early 20s, I engaged in inappropriate sexual activity with a young woman in a house where I was staying. It was kissing and caressing – not sexual intercourse – but it was wrong. This behavior occurred several times over the next few years.”
In March 1987, the situation Exposed, Confessed, and Repented ofI surrendered myself to the elders of Shady Grove Church and the father of the young woman. They told me, Get out I participated in ministry and received counseling and freedom ministry. At that timeI have walked in this field with purity and responsibility.”
That’s not what the so-called “young woman” remembers. Cindy Cremischer called Morris’s actions an unwanted assault. She He told Wartburg Watch the 20-year-old, The married father entered her bedroom on Christmas night and groped her breasts and genitals while she lay in bed.
In her words:
“I was 12 years old. I was a little girl. A very pure girl. and He was brought He and his wife, Debbie, and their son, Josh, came to our house. and Trusted and preached Church My dad helped me start this and then started teaching all of us to do this, but it took me decades as an adult to figure it out.
“This went on for years. He says they never had sex. he Touched and penetrated every part of my body his “I now understand that putting his fingers inside me was a form of instrumental rape. I was an innocent 12-year-old girl who knew nothing about sex.”
The assaults continued for more than four years, and after Cindy turned 16, Morris allegedly attempted to have sex with her.
When Klemscher’s father found out, he threatened to call the sheriff if the senior pastor at Shady Grove Church (aptly named “Shady”) didn’t kick Morris out. The pastor agreed to suspend Morris for two years. Once his suspension was over, the church’s management welcomed him back. Shady Grove eventually became Gateway Church, and Morris built his career there.
What on earth happened to these people? Church How can anyone call the police on a child who has been committing crimes against children for over four years? So why are we putting a child abusing sex offender back in a position of trust and authority?
Robert’s wife, Debbie Morris, called Cindy, the victim of her husband’s crimes, and said she “forgave her,” compounding Cindy’s shame and punishment. This shifting of responsibility is absurd.
Gateway Church Elders Announced With the kind of shameful, sycophantic honesty that a group of religious figures who harbored criminals could muster, they claimed they had not fired Morris because they did not know “all the facts.”
That statement is complete and utter nonsense, and the church administration has known about it for 37 years, ever since Klemscher’s father told them in 1987.
That’s not all: Cindy hired a lawyer in 2005 and sued Morris for $50,000 in damages. He countered with $25,000, accusing her of “cheating” and blaming her for it. Statutory rape laws, by definition, put all the responsibility on the adult. She was 12, not even a looming teen.
Fundamentalist Christians want an American-style theocracy, and if that comes to pass, no girl will be safe from sexual exploitation.
If he was an atheist he would have been thrown in jail straight away.
