Creepy Megachurch Pastor Wrote That Jesus ‘Desired’ His Sexual Relationship with a 17-Year-Old Girl
LatestJack Schaap, the inestimably creepy pastor who was fired from his sermonizing gig at the First Baptist Church in Hammond, Indiana last summer after church members discovered he was having a sexual relationship with a then 16-year-old girl, is awaiting sentencing this fine Thursday. If those bare facts aren’t enough outrage fodder for you, however, consider this: Schaap, with a feat of moral elasticity that only true hypocrites are capable of, claimed in one of several letters he wrote to the victim during his crime that their relationship was an essential part of her personal salvation and sanctioned by Jesus himself.
The Post-Tribune reports that federal prosecutors in Schaap’s case included his letters in the government’s sentencing memorandum for Schaap, filed Wednesday evening in the U.S. District Court in Hammond. In the letters, Schaap often pats himself on the back for a job well-done in helping save his underage parishioner from self destruction and place her on the “better path of living – that’s what we call Righteousness.” By using Jesus imagery to manipulate her into having sex with him, for instance. His letters contain scores of tenuous deductions about the positive spiritual effects his orgasms have on the girl’s prospects for salvation: