Матея 7:3 А защо гледаш сламката в окото на брата си, пък гредата в своето око не усещаш?
4. Или, как ще кажеш брату си: чакай, да извадя сламката от окото ти; а пък на, в твоето око има греда!
5. Лицемерецо, извади първом гредата от окото си, и тогава ще видиш, как да извадиш сламката от окото на брата си.

Ето надолу примери за "протестантско благочестие". Мога да приведа още стотици. Но за хората, които са гледали репортажи поне от една гей-сватба или от "ръкополагане" на жена - свещеничка или епископеса, това не е нужно.


Court: Woman is accused of stealing $85,000 from Pasadena Presbyterian over 4 1/2 years.


By RICHARD WINTON, Special to The Times


A former church employee pleaded not guilty Tuesday to five felony grand theft charges accusing her of embezzling more than $85,000 from Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
Yvonne Roath, 52, who entered the plea in Pasadena Superior Court, was director of the church's day-care center and treasurer of its women's association, which organizes Bible studies and raises funds for church missions.
"The allegation is she embezzled upward of $85,000 over the course of 4 1/2 years," Deputy Dist. Atty. Robert DeCarteret said.
Police "were able to seize assets in her bank account, some $35,000. But because of the size of the loss, we're seeking jail time," DeCarteret said.
DeCarteret said Roath worked for the church's day-care center in various capacities for 17 years, but the charges concern discrepancies discovered between 1995 and 1999.
"It's pretty sad," said Mark K. Smutny, co-pastor of the church with his wife, Barbara A. Anderson. "Our parishioners were shocked. Most of them knew her. Some entrusted their children to her."
Parishioners at Pasadena's oldest church, which President Clinton has visited, were informed in a letter last fall of the allegations, Smutny said.
"This problem is all too common for churches across the country," he said.
Roath was arrested in October and released on bail.
The charges filed by the district attorney's office initially were dismissed after subpoenas were not served on key bank officials needed for a hearing in May, Smutny said. Prosecutors then refiled the charges.
Roath left the 125-year-old church on East Colorado Boulevard last August to work for the Del Mar public schools near San Diego, officials said.
"She has been a public servant for kids and the elderly. She just got a teacher of the year award in the area where she lives," said Roath's attorney, Robert Hale. "It is a situation that is blown out of proportion."
When Anderson and Smutny took over the church almost 2 1/2 years ago they began questioning the finances of the day-care center, they said. "But it was the women's association checking account that was the final clue," Smutny said


BALTIMORE (AP) -- A pastor has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for smuggling Estonian children into this country on the promise of a Christian education, only to force them to work 15-hour days to support her lavish lifestyle.

"I think these kids were worked to the bone," U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis said Tuesday. "They were cheated."

Joyce Perdue, the 55-year-old pastor at Word of Faith Outreach ministry in Woodbine, was ordered to pay back nearly $65,000 to the children and was fined $25,000.

Associate pastor Robert Hendricks, 37, who handled the business end of the operation, received two years in prison. Administrator Elizabeth Brown, 40, was sentenced to one year in a halfway house.

The three were allowed to remain free pending an appeal.

The defendants pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to smuggle aliens and visa fraud after Garbis forbid them from claiming that church members and children lived and worked together as part of their Christian faith.

The children were told they would attend Calvary Chapel Christian Academy but from 1996 to 1998 they cleaned roach-infested apartments and bookstores and installed office furniture. Prosecutors said the children were threatened with being sent back to Estonia if they refused.

The children, ages 14 to 17, were paid $10 to $50 a week for working in the cleaning service.

Prosecutors said Perdue used the money to buy a $600,000 home, go on a Mexican cruise and purchase $200 bottles of perfume.

"My intent was never to harm these very young people," Perdue said. "I can state before the court, your honor, and the God of the Christian universe, I never remember abusing them. ... I now know it was wrong to allow these children to work."