GAFFNEY, NC.- A 22-year-old church youth minister has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for molesting a teen-ager in 1998.

A jury found Chad Severance, of Bessemer City, guilty of fondling one teen-age boy. Severance is expected to be tried in two similar cases later.

All three boys were members of the New Harvest Church of God, which hired Severance as minister of music in May 1998. The boys said Severance would make excuses to spend the night with them either at their homes or at his.

Each described waking during the night to find Severance fondling them.

Severance, who serves as a minister of music at a North Carolina church, denied the charges. During testimony, he said he never slept with any of the boys when they visited his home. He said he was invited to stay at the home of one of the boys by the teen’s mother

No, the picture was not taken prior to arrest, conviction and imprisonment. The portly bearded slug standing in the center of the photograph is Chad Severance disgraced minister, homosexual pedophile, convicted felon or what they call in Charlotte “Man of the Year”

Severance has championed the open use of public rest rooms, that is removing sex specific restrictions.  The Mayor has supported the move.  The local newspaper has been accused of covering up and misinforming the public about Severance’s history in their effort to support the ordinance.  The City Council defeated the ordinance.

In the early 70’s there were efforts made to legitimize Manson and the “Family”, but mass communications just wasn’t up to the task.  Had Manson committed his outrage in 2001, who knows what the result might have been? After all the New York skyline has been altered forever. Despite evidence to the contrary, we are told the Muslim religion is a religion of peace.

The origin of the quote is lost, in a song Gil Scot-Heron said it best,”If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”