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Church Hires Convicted Sex Offender, No Kids Allowed At Sermons
You just can't make this stuff up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/darrell-gilyard-can-preach-at-church-children-barred-from-sermons_n_1291639.html
A convicted sex offender can keep on preaching, but children are barred from attending his sermons....
“He was down on the ground, and the church was down on the ground, and we both needed to get up,” Deacon Paul S. Newman Sr. told the paper.
Gilyard pleaded guilty in 2009 to molesting a teenage girl from his former Jacksonville church and sending lewd messages to another, according to a previous Times Union article....
"A minister who has done such evil should not be restored to the pulpit until his repentance is as notorious as his sin," George Harvey, pastor at Mt. Charity Baptist Church told News 4 JAX.
“He was down on the ground, and the church was down on the ground, and we both needed to get up,” Deacon Paul S. Newman Sr. told the paper.
Gilyard pleaded guilty in 2009 to molesting a teenage girl from his former Jacksonville church and sending lewd messages to another, according to a previous Times Union article....
"A minister who has done such evil should not be restored to the pulpit until his repentance is as notorious as his sin," George Harvey, pastor at Mt. Charity Baptist Church told News 4 JAX.
Because Florida. 
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Sex offenders need to be known-
