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| Paul J. Scaer, LCMS Pastor |
Paul J. Scaer, an openly gay librarian, educator and musician, died on June 16 after a battle with cancer. He was 63, and lived in the East Falls section of Philadelphia.
Scaer grew up in Van Wert, Ohio, and earned a bachelor’s degree from Valparaiso University in Indiana. After graduating from Concordia Lutheran Seminary in St. Louis, he served as pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., and later at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Philadelphia.
In 1986, he earned a master’s degree in library science from Drexel University.
From September 1987 to October 1988, Scaer worked as a children’s librarian at the Falls of Schuylkill branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
“Paul was a respected and valued member of our staff,” said Donald C. Root, a spokesperson for the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Scaer also served as a librarian at Chestnut Hill Academy.
For 17 years, Scaer was a librarian at Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School, a public school in the city’s Spring Garden section.
In 2006, Scaer went to work as a librarian at the new Science Leadership Academy. There he also taught a music-theory class and created a music program.
He had been on medical leave from the school since February 2008 due to his cancer diagnosis, said Christopher D. Lehmann, principal of the academy.
“Paul was a truly good human being,” Lehmann said. “He was a kind, thoughtful person with a unique perspective whom I enjoyed talking to every day.”
Lehmann said Scaer was instrumental in forming the school’s gay-straight alliance in 2006. He also said the school’s library has been named the Scaer Library, in his honor.
A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. July 18 at University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, 3637 Chestnut St. Memorial donations may be sent to University Lutheran Feast Incarnate, a church ministry that provides meals for the homeless and people living with HIV/AIDS, at 3637 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104.
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Services will be held 12 p.m., Friday, June 19, 2009, at Pleasant View Lutheran Church [ELCA], 801 W. 73rdSt., Indianapolis, IN 46260, with visitation two hours prior to the service. Interment will be at Woodland Cemetery, Van Wert, OH at a later date.
Memorials may be made to the Pleasant View Lutheran Church Food Pantry. Arrangements entrusted to Flanner and Buchanan Funeral Center-Broad Ripple.
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GJ - The public knows, or should know, that the Roman Catholic Church has had a policy of destroying all evidence in child abuse cases. The evidence in America was shipped to the Vatican, which is a sovereign state. The worst of all the leaders, Cardinal Law in Boston, was given a promotion and shipped to Rome, lest he face prosecution.
WELS - we know that Joel Hochmuth was discovered swapping homosexual child porn by his wife. They went to counseling. But nothing was done to alert the authorities. He continued these heinous crimes as the Director of Communications for WELS. SP Schroeder was quick to absolve Hochmuth publicly, although he leaves faithful members to be abused by nasty bully pastors like Glende, Ski, and Patterson.
I received a packet of information about an ongoing lawsuit where the LCMS is accused of having the same policies as the Roman Catholic Church - to have all evidence of child abuse destroyed, lest the lawsuits cost them money.
Michigan District WELS policy was to savage anyone who objected to clergy adultery and to defend the adultery. In fact, adultery with a church member was a resume enhancer, bound to get the man a promotion to a cushy job. It works in Arizona, too.
When this was discussed with various DPs, they said to me, "How did you find out?" When a reporter asked WELS SP Gurgle about it, he phoned around and said, "Do you tell the reporter?" One of them phoned me and said, "Did you tell the reporter?" But the promotion was not nixed. And no, I did not tell.
In the shrinking ELS, the seminary professors told future pastors they could get away with adultery the first time, but they would be sacked the second time. How Biblical!
Is incest a crime? Ask the Church of the Lutheran Confession (sic). The answer may surprise you.
DP Mueller (Michigan, WELS) said more than once that he lied and covered up for clergy adultery, not telling a congregation (for example) that they were calling a man known for adultery. He concealed the truth because, "they won't call him if they know." He said that as if it were a legitimate excuse to deceive and bamboozle a congregation. After all, Mueller and Paul Kuske defrauded Columbus the same way, five congregations at the same time.
All the "conservative" Lutheran officials are just like Rome's leaders - they get even with the people who tell the truth about abuse while protecting the felons.
Quite a few people have told me about homosexuals in the WELS clergy, those who claimed they were in school and went on to marriage and ordination. Two were caught in the mattress room at Mequon, ordained and married. One WELS pastor is known for being an active homosexual, and the officials do nothing about it. Talk to A - nothing. Talk to B - nothing.
In the Synodical Conference (tm), right is wrong and wrong is right. Members should expect to pay the price in many ways in the coming decades. The corrupt and amoral clergy leaders always find a way to protect themselves while making the members fund their crimes.
ELCA did that and had a $40 million lawsuit settled against them. They ordained a known pedophile.
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Dr. Greg,
as long as the big tent is Rome
You are very insightful. This is so so true. I have heard this when I was an RC. Mother Church said, you do not have to leave us, we are big enough to give you your fancy. If you want Jazz bands on Sunday Mass, we got that too, want some mini gods? We got the saints for that. Want to sing gospel songs and choruses, we will allow you to do that. Just don't leave your Papa, we are big enough to have all you want.
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