The predator “kissed his wife” and hugged his family members …

These are your xtian values … yay … I love my predator pedophile pastors

Do they think the embarrassment is enough punishment?
Oh, wait, wait, wait. I didn't take into consideration the Caucasian factor. That explains it. I'm surprised the children haven't been charged with enticing a man of the cloth. I guess there's still time.

After she had endured 4.5 years of abuse, so she acted like the child was doing that very thing.

This is the only thing oklahoma has done right in decades.

What is the only thing OK has done right?

If he violates the law while on parole he will then spend some of those ten years in a prison.

Yes, then jail that f*cker, period. Ooo, let's give him another chance to hurt another child, then he'll really get what's coming to him. Such bullsh*t.

Rationally, I understand, you're just trying to provide a reason as to how this is the result.
But we aren't talking about some 19 year old dating a 16 year old and I don't need the facts in front of me to try to justify a grown man sexually abusing a child to rationalize the favored treatment this pedophile received. He did it, he should've lost the privilege to be free in our society for a number of years and the prosecutor and judge should be right there with him, serving time.

Is this what their "god" wants them to do?

Not a drag queen, not a transgendered person.

The nasty comment to females to cross their legs needs a counter comment for males to keep it zipped up

"Keep it in your pants!" is another.

'Stop letting the little head do the thinking!" (My fave.)

And, of course, when one is considering making some kind of move on someone that they find appealing, but have no idea how old they are: "If you don't know, you don't go!", meaning that if you don't know how old that person is, you don't go over there in the first place.

"Can you try to keep yourself from fucking everything that moves?" is one that I have used before.

he returns to the church, and it will all just go away.

When the likelihood is that, if he did it once, and it was 40 years ago, he's been doing it ever since and there are dozens more victims.

Clergy, cops and conservatives.

Unless his fellow inmates can think of any.

The shit you can get away with in Texas if you're a megachurch pastor...

"I have sinned." Look for his crocodile tears and victim blaming. But these predatory "preachers" still keep their tax free assets and are able to keep their con game going no matter how evil and hypocritical they are. Morris must have bribed some powerful people to accept such a bad plea deal. Stories like this remind me of John Lennon's Imagine "...and no religion too."