Evangelical pastor who condemned “wicked” & “evil” queers arrested in sex sting operation

The preacher said the U.S. is turning into "Sodom and Gomorrah" before he was charged with a sex-related felon.

By Greg Owen Monday, August 5, 2024

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A pastor in Texas who preached that America is a new “Sodom and Gomorrah” was arrested and charged with felony sexual solicitation connected to a human sex trafficking investigation, according to KDFW.

Plano police arrested Terrence “Terren” Dames, 51, the senior pastor at North Dallas Community Bible Fellowship, as part of its ongoing trafficking investigation. An arrest warrant affidavit indicated that Dames thought he was soliciting a sex worker, though he told police that he had planned to meet “a friend” at a local motel.

He then pretended to eat his own vomit in front of his congregation to show how serious he was.

He hasn’t been otherwise implicated in the trafficking operation, but the church said he was removed from his position in May because of “moral failure.”

According to the affidavit, an undercover Plano officer posed as a sex worker and placed an ad on a website commonly used by individuals to solicit sex for money. On May 2, Dames called the number in the ad and offered to pay $150 for the “full service,” which the affidavit explained is slang for intercourse.

Less than 30 minutes later, Dames arrived at the motel room where the rendezvous was supposed to take place. He left after no one answered the door, but he was later arrested during a traffic stop. Police said Danes claimed he was meeting a friend at the motel. While in custody, authorities said the pastor experienced an unspecified medical episode but refused medical care.

Danes was indicted in June and charged with felony solicitation.

The pastor was swept up in an ongoing crackdown on trafficking and sex work by Plano police. The department says it has arrested 90 people for solicitation so far this year, on top of 153 people in 2023.

Bianca Davis, CEO of New Friends New Life, a non-profit that helps victims of sex trafficking and exploitation, says sex work is rarely a victimless crime.

“In the vast majority of cases, there is a trafficker or a pimp who is behind the scenes who she must then turn over that money to, which is a part of the definition,” Davis said. “It’s an important way to get the message out, hopefully to others, that there are consequences” to solicitation, “and by the way, this is criminal behavior.”

As pastor at the evangelical North Dallas church, Dames has railed against moral decay in American society and among religious organizations.

“We’re living in a place that’s bringing down the same thing that happened in Sodom and Gomorrah! We have legalized it! The wrath of God is going to come down and judge with wickedness of man!” Dames said in a recent sermon still posted to Facebook.

In the biblical story, Sodom and Gomorrah are two towns that God destroyed for being inhospitable to his angelic messengers. Anti-LGBTQ+ Christians often claim that God destroyed the towns over their citizens’ homosexuality.

In the aforementioned sermon, the preacher displayed his obsession with homosexuality and trans people in particular.

“Pastors and preachers right now are ordaining homosexuals! And we wonder where the men are. They’re being told they’re women!” he said. “When a man thinks that he can go to a doctor and have him manipulate his flesh–and so can a woman too–if we who call ourselves Christians don’t stand up and condone this evil and immorality, we are cursing God to his face and saying, ‘Your image is disgusting and I will twist it to how I want it to be.’”

“Why do we accept this perversion?” Dames asked.

John Bellamy Comments:

Here we go again. Another hypocritical homophobic, sex phobic liar - claiming to be all righteous and holy and all the time he is just the same as all the rest of us - a sexual human being and not a Saint or Prophet or anything else, just a normal human being who wants sex, - expect this asshole stands at the pulpit telling how some of us are going to hell for wanting sex while he is just as needy as everyone else.

Double standards are at work here and all these ' do gooders ' always seem to fall from grace at some time and always seem to fall from grace over sex. Shame that sex is seen as such a NO NO when it is something we all have enjoyed at one time or another and damning anyone for wanting sex - be it gay or straight - is so very wrong and against God and against the natural order of things, and to those who say gay sex is not natural, of course it is - don't talk daft - sex is NOT all about making babies at all - absolutely not at all and regardless of how you misinterpret various ancient Biblical / Koran / Talmud writings, NOWHERE does is damn sex and especially gay sex, except when it is abusive.

PERIOD.

Oh you can try and quote Biblical scriptures at me - and I will just laugh, as YOU KNOW it is massively misinterpreted, badly altered from Latin and Hebrew into English and then MASSIVELY re edited into over 50 different versions of the English Bible and all with slightly different translations - and ALL are wrong.

Like it or lump it, the Bible IS NOT WORTH SERIOUS CONSIDERATION AS TRUTH WHEN IT HAS BEEN SO MESSED ABOUT WITH AND IS NOT THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD AT ALL - BUT SOME BIGOTED MONKS OVER THE CENTRIES.

PERIOD.

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