Another one bites the Dust! I suppose the Sodomite was not happy packing fudge with Adult Homos, so he turned to Children!
Bay Area Reporter
– A gay San Francisco pastor, who has historically fought for gay rights in the Lutheran Church, was arrested on charges of possession of child pornography, according to the San Francisco Police Department.
The Reverend Steven Sabin, pastor at Christ Church Lutheran at Quintara Street and 20th Avenue, was arrested November 15 on three felony charges.
Sabin, 59, was arraigned November 21 and pleaded not guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography and two counts of possession or control of child pornography, according to a spokesman for the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. Private defense attorney Art Lipton is representing Sabin. Lipton did not respond to a request for comment from the Bay Area Reporter.
According to an SFPD news release, the department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit began investigating Sabin in the fall after he was found to have been distributing child pornography through an online social media application. On November 15, the police searched Sabin’s home on the 1300 block of Market Street.
“Investigators located a cellphone belonging to Sabin, which contained hundreds of child pornography videos and images depicting juvenile minors being sexually abused. During a subsequent search, investigators found that Sabin was storing child pornography on a cloud storage application,” read the news release.
The pastor was released on his own recognizance November 16, according to court documents. “There is not sufficient probable cause to detain the defendant,” court records stated.
A pre-trial date is set for December 19.
The day after Sabin was arrested, Christ Church Lutheran posted a comment on its website. “We have learned of the arrest of Steve Sabin, who will no longer serve as pastor of Christ Church Lutheran,” the statement read. “We are concerned for, and ask for, prayers for all affected, including all victims of sexual misconduct and for the people of the congregation of Christ Church. We will cooperate fully with law enforcement. We have zero tolerance for clergy sexual misconduct and are committed to providing safe spaces for all children and youth in our church.”
Church representatives could not be reached for comment.
Sabin is known in the LGBT community for making headlines in 1998 after being kicked out of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for being gay. He later became pastor of the Sunset district church in 2001.
As previously reported by the B.A.R. in a 2005 article that reported on the continuation of anti-gay policies in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Sabin was said to have “received a condemnation, trial, defrocking, and deletion from the official roster that gives pastors a pension fund and assembly vote.”
After being booted, in the article, Sabin expressed his disappointment in the results of a four-year task force report that maintained the church’s policy against same-sex blessing ceremonies and non-celibate LGBT pastors, along with other LGBT Lutheran pastors. The church released ambiguous guidance policies referring how to discipline LGBT clergy in relationships and their congregation, which urged bishops to use “pastoral discretion” over such matters, he said.
Sabin was also featured in documentarian Pam Walton’s film that told the story of three religious leaders who experienced rejection after announcing their sexual orientation to the church. The 1999 article in the B.A.R. said Sabin had been, “outed by his bishop, supported by his congregation, and ‘tried’ by the national church ELCA (the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) because he refused to resign.” Source
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