Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, which attracts an estimated 100,000 worshipers weekly, has confessed to “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” more than 35 years ago while he was a young pastor after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her over multiple years beginning when she was 12.
His lawyer blames the 12 year old because she was flirtatious. A 12 year old.
I mean, sure, I’ve known a lot of flirtat… You know what, actually no, I haven’t. Fucking creep.
I’m sure there are flirtatious 12 year olds, actually. You know what an adult should never do in response to a 12 year old’s flirting? What this guy did or anything at all.
Of course, I don’t believe for a second that she flirted with him. It’s classic victim blaming and any jury hearing it should assume he’s guilty.
This is actually a very big point of the novel Lolita.
People who think it’s a pro-pedophilia work are telling on themselves. The novel explores the mindset of a predator more than anything else, a child being childish is “flirting” to them, not just a kid doing innocent things they, at best, don’t understand. They say these abhorrent things because they, in fact, believe it themselves, must believe it themselves.
Over/Under on the defense trying to make her bring her panties in to show the jury?