Church Stages "Mock Kidnapping" of Youth Group

to show them how bad missionaries and x-tians have it overseas.

This is just unbelievable, if it was one of my kids I'd be hard pressed not to beat the living shit out of the good ol' pastor, then again my kids wouldn't be caught dead with this crowd.

In my opinion there was nothing Mock about this kidnapping. They took these people without their permission or the permission of their parents. There should be some jail time coming but these wacked out fundies usually manage to squirm their way out of any responsibility.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46855299/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.T3CSTMWPXTp

"A southeastern Pennsylvania church subjected members of a youth group to a mock kidnapping and interrogations without telling them it was staged, and the outraged mother of one 14-year-old girl has filed a complaint with police.
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The pastor of the Glad Tidings Assembly of God in Middletown said the church is "so saddened" that the girl was traumatized at the Wednesday evening youth meeting.

But the pastor, John Lanza, said Friday there have been emails of support from other students at the church, about 10 miles southeast of Harrisburg, because the intent was to prepare them for what they might encounter as missionaries. He didn't disclose the names of those involved but said the mock kidnappers included an off-duty police officer and a retired Army captain.

"It was a youth event, to illustrate what others have encountered on a regular basis," he said, adding that the focus of the lesson was "the persecuted church" in other countries."