This week in holy crimes

[WillParkinson]

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/08/this-week-in-holy-crimes.html

This Week's Winner
Texas: Pastor Randy Scott has been arrested for meeting young men online and forcing them into sex. Posing as a young man, Scott would exchange emails with his victims, then appear at their homes pretending to be the step-father of the person they thought they'd been corresponding with. Scott would then threaten to call the police unless the young men gave him oral sex. At least one of the victims is underage. Scott, who is married with children, has resigned from his church.

[laconicsax]

1. Dare:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=214

[laconicsax]

2. No doubt his celestial sockpuppet told him to do it. n/t

[iris27]

3. Wait, what?

"Scott would then threaten to call the police unless the young men gave him oral sex. At least one of the victims is underage."

Call the police and tell them what, exactly? I guess it's not really relevant, because it worked as a threat, but that just made my brain hurt.

[realisticphish]

4. Sounds like the Piranha Brothers sketch from Monty Python...

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/piranha.htm

Presenter: At the age of fifteen Doug and Dinsdale started attending the Ernest Pythagoras Primary School in Clerkenwell. When the Piranhas left school they were called up but were found by an Army Board to be too unstable even for National Service. Denied the opportunity to use their talents in the service of their country, they began to operate what they called 'The Operation'... They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which the called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later they hit upon 'The Other Other Operation'. In this the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This for the Piranha brothers was the turning point.

[WillParkinson]

5. He probably elicited some kind of secrets from them...

Or, perhaps, sexual e-mails and threatened to identify them to the police as targeting his 'underage' son.