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The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church’s culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the U.S. and Canada, ensnaring parents, children and grandchildren in the same cycle of abuse.

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In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations

The church's culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the country.

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Must be a lot of drag queens at that church. Oh, what's that you say? None? Really. Hmm.

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“We’re always told that what the preachers tell us, that’s coming from God,” explained one woman, who said she, too, was told not to speak of her abuse. “Who’s going to argue with that?”
... anyone with a brain and an ounce of morality?

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