Wednesday, April 18, 2012


PHILADELPHIA: Bishop Bennison lashes out at "Tabloid Journalism". Defends Rector

PHILADELPHIA: Bishop Bennison lashes out at "Tabloid Journalism". Defends St. Clement's Rector
New evidence substantiates VOL's story

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
April 17, 2012

Following VOL's exposé of Fr. Gordon Reid's sexual past when he was in Scotland before coming to St. Clement's in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bishop Charles E. Bennison has come out in defense of Reid saying that no such improprieties were ever reported to him, calling the unsolicited articles in the Scottish tabloid "sensational" and "a transgression of God's commandment against bearing false witness."

An investigative report in the Sunday People, a British newspaper dated November 8, 1987, details the activities of the Rev. Gordon Reid, when he was Provost of Inverness Cathedral in 1984. It is a shocking account of what Reid said in a tape-recorded interview to a reporter posing as a young man who wanted counseling. The young man was subjected to the sexual advances of Reid. In the tape-recorded conversation, Reid admitted to engaging in sexual activity with hundreds of partners, in group sex orgies, extreme sadomasochistic sex acts and prostitution.http://tinyurl.com/7afmrmj

These newspaper reports were sent to VOL and published here:http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=15854#.T420ZdlRC8A

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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