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SeekingReason's avatar

Another deeply disturbed, christian pervert who tries to justify his atrocious behavior by saying he offered transparent tape as an option! He needs at least 10 years to think this over. It sounds like something from the 1800s. The fierce teacher or principal enforcing obedient behavior (obedience to them). Spare the rod, spoil the child, a child should be seen not heard…These religious nuts need a big dose of reality.

Tinker's avatar

Another proof they want to get back to when "America was great again" not in the 1950's but the 1850's.

Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Some want to go back to the 1650's.

Amy Slack's avatar

Remember when SCOTUS member Alito quoted from a writer and preacher from the 1600's, I believe his last name was Hale, who advocated for burning women at the stake as witches.

Marilyn Lemons's avatar

I don't disagree, but these 'correcting child behavior' methods were around in the 1940's and 50's.

Lefty Throckmorton's avatar

Going back to the '50's (or even earlier back to the '40's and '30's) is what they want to have happen; all three of those decades had children treated like Raymond treated these children at the school he was employed at.

For me, this kind of love for the past was apparent and shown in two separate postings I came across on the internet (one an article/blog post and one a long BBS entry) that show a longing for said 'simpler times' with regards to old and new TV shows:

Well I Heard Mister Young Sing About Her (https://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/well-i-heard-mister-young-sing-about-her/ )

Is the b&w era of TV on DVD slowly coming to an end? (https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/is-the-b-w-era-of-tv-on-dvd-slowly-coming-to-an-end.311401/page-23 )

Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time"(https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/rolling-stones-100-greatest-tv-shows-of-all-time.349546/)

XJC's avatar

Yeah. Today there are much more politically neutral tape options, like 3M Blue Tape. It's great for painting and all purpose child punishment. Safe, easy to remove, and leaves no residue...er, evidence.

Bonnie Boyce's avatar

Now THERE’S a good marketing idea!

ericc's avatar

I am skeptical that holding someone else's 4-year-old upside down and shaking them into near-unconsciousness was *ever* acceptable, in any era. The difference between now and the 1800s is that today we hand the case over to the courts, whereas in the 1800s he probably would've just got shot or had the everliving crap beat out of him by a parent.

Bob Riggins's avatar

But, but... that's a vital method for exorcism!

cdbunch's avatar

An exorcism is not going to get rid of a child's demons. It has a high probability of giving zir a few, though.

Marilyn Lemons's avatar

Some of this is Southern ways of child care. I know, my father came from North Carolina.

Crowscage's avatar

I'm more inclined to give them a gasoline bath and offer them a cigarette.

Straw's avatar

And matches thrown to them from a safe distance?

Old Man Shadow's avatar

The GOP remains a welcome home for psychopaths and narcissists.

Troublesh00ter's avatar

The usual question is: Who does this to kids? Sadly, the inevitable answer is: Christians who are convinced of their own rectitude. Taping their mouths over? WRAPPING said tape around their heads? I have to wonder if Raymond has kids of his own and whether he would treat them in the same fashion, or worse: is he an aficionado of the Pearls and To Train Up a Child.

Thankfully, the law has not been inattentive ... and I hope they throw the book at him.

Straw's avatar

The people doing things like that to kids have usually been in the recieving end of cruelity when they were young.

oraxx's avatar

Sickening, and what makes it worse is the fact things like this are so common we've become largely desensitized to it. Guys like this always see themselves as the good guys, and the victims of persecution should anyone attempt to hold them accountable. I don't have much respect for the parents who would send their children to a school operated by this man. They are the ones who facilitate the abusers.

Troublesh00ter's avatar

SOME people may have become desensitized to it. I don't think any of us have, or we wouldn't be here.

oraxx's avatar

Definitely not in this community, you're right. Things like this just make me hate organized religion all the more.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Ditto, hurting helpless children is the worst.

Amy Slack's avatar

One of his excuses was that the parents didn't mind. As if that is the arbiter of what is acceptable in the eyes of the law!

oraxx's avatar

At some point children have rights too, and no parent has the right to give another person permission to abuse their child. I have a feeling there are some seriously messed up kids coming out of that school.

Whitney's avatar

Except the parents clearly did mind in some cases, since they've gone after him legally. Not that Raymond being a liar as well comes as any kind of surprise, really.

Mommadillo's avatar

I'm WAY less concerned with protecting children from the trans agenda than protecting them from abusive assholes like him.

Whitney's avatar

That's because you have the good sense to know the difference between made-up dangers and actual ones.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Yes. It's always projection with these assholes.

Joe King's avatar

𝐻𝑒’𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 “𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛.”

Because what is more anti-Christian than prison time for an unrepentant child abuser. Cruelty to juveniles? Call it what it is. 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲. Just because he did it in the name of his god doesn't mean that that is not what it is. I predict he will have a bad time in prison, child abusers are not treated well.

XJC's avatar

He will proselytize them, and will probably be the prison snitch.

Marilyn Lemons's avatar

That would be very unhealthly.

Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Do inmates have the right to own tape ?

Kay-El's avatar

Was thinking similar. He’ll probably receive a similar treatment from his fellow inmates. That’s the only thing that will possibly change his attitude.

Bonnie Boyce's avatar

Yes, he could be shouting the Christian equivalent of “Allahu Akhbar!” As he righteously slits the throats of giggling children.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Sadly that is an urban myth. An online friend who worked in prisons said, they fare no worse than anyone else. He never could figure out how that rumor got started.

MaryClare StFrancis's avatar

I fucking hate Slidell, I had the misfortune to live in that hell hole but thankfully not for long. When I first heard this story I said "I bet this dude is from Slidell." Lo and behold, I was right.

I had an even bigger misfortune of living in the even bigger hell hole of Picayune MS, just over the state line, for many years, with Slidell still being the hub for me.

XJC's avatar

Remember Bob Slidell? From Office Space?

RegularJoe's avatar

An hour, eh? That's pretty darned quick. Good.

Troublesh00ter's avatar

The time the jury deliberated in Raymond's case. Says something about the evidence against him, I would say. Says something about HIM, too.

ericc's avatar

My albeit limited experience in juries leads me to believe that they probably reached a provisional unanimous vote in under 5 minutes. Then decided that for due diligence purposes, they should review all the evidence and arguments in case they missed something, before making it official.

Bonnie Boyce's avatar

Or if they delayed the verdict a bit longer, the county would provide lunch? I’m going with that!

Troublesh00ter's avatar

Maybe sometimes there IS such a thing as a free lunch! 😁

NOGODZ20's avatar

Maybe I missed something, but having read the article, I fail to see where gay people (whom Raymond loathes) were involved in his abuse of kids.

As always, it's the guys with God on their lips and hate in their hearts that are the danger to children.

Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Only the dirty pervs in the LGBTQ community would take issue with his disciplinary actions. Those woke give mind people are sparing the rod and therefore the kids are turning gay transgender furries looking for litter boxes. If he gets to do what’s necessary those kids’ll never go wrong, just like him.

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Bagen Onuts's avatar

When the police have unlimited power, the police will NEVER make mistakes.

ericc's avatar

They are slightly different things. Discriminating against LGBT+ folks is what he wants to do if elected to office. Beating kids is what he does do in his teaching position.

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Bagen Onuts's avatar

Cu jeezyboy HATES compassion and equality. The biggest bigot in the universe

Leah Tahiry's avatar

Another GOP Perv bites the dust.

Tinker's avatar

This guy thinks it's the 'woke' agenda that is against him abusing someone else's kids? What happened to parental rights? I thought that was a Republican thing?

Oh right, those parents are part of the 'woke' agenda too and we probably need to take action against them. /s

Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Parental rights to keep silent if you disagree with him.

Spooky Smith's avatar

Whenever a headline starts “Christian pastor” I assume it involves child abuse and I am almost never wrong, the exceptions being when they are doing bigotry and hatred.

Joe King's avatar

Sometimes it involves child abuse, bigotry, AND hatred.

Spooky Smith's avatar

They are multidimensional that way.

Joe King's avatar

And yet so one dimensional in every other way.

NOGODZ20's avatar

"They were never in any physical pain. Their breathing was never impaired."

Sounds like IT'S NOT TORTURE!!! I'd like to see him subjected to the same treatment he visited on children. Wonder if he'd still view it as painless and not being smothered. Need I really ask?

Donrox's avatar

I have had allergies and nasal congestion all my life. If someone put tape over my mouth, I would probably have a panic attack. Please, FA folks, do not look down on me for being a partial mouth breather!

Alverant's avatar

Didn't the victims say that taking off the tape was painful?

NOGODZ20's avatar

Yup. Raymond is lying through his teeth, just like his orange-tinted hero.

ericc's avatar

But, but...where's the evil drag queen in this story?

I gotta say I'm somewhat surprised with the conservatives around him because 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙. The GOP picking him over another conservative with no police record. His lawyer trying an essentially useless defense. Sheesh, what's the world coming to when the local GOP doesn't even evil well.

"This town needs a better class of crim...conservative."

Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

He saved us all from the Drag Queens those kids would have become had they not been properly disciplined now.

NOGODZ20's avatar

May Raymond never be allowed around kids again after his sentence has been served. Authorities need to keep tabs on him then.

Matri's avatar

Also: “There is overwhelming proof but I won’t provide any and force you to waste your time searching for it instead.”

NOGODZ20's avatar

I tell them: "It's your claim. Burden of proof is on you, not me. Have fun finding the evidence to back up your personal assertion. Be sure to let me know when you do. THEN we'll talk."

Matri's avatar

Doesn’t work. The whistling sound your words make when they go in one ear and out the other should clue you in.

NOGODZ20's avatar

The eyes glazing over is usually a giveaway.

Matri's avatar

Someone used that “find it yourself” tactic not too long ago to defend all those Jan 6 “tourists”. I even called him out on it, and he just reverted to “No, YOU!”

cdbunch's avatar

Tourists don't smear shit on the walls. At least if they're more than 2 years old.

NOGODZ20's avatar

They get loud and nasty, I just shake my head and walk away.

Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Yeah, they say something like just look around you – how can you not believe?

Daniel Rotter's avatar

Heck, even the supposed "truths" about God (like him getting a young girl pregnant, destroying two entire cities for the actions of a few people in them, etc.) don't exactly make the G-man come off too well.