Julie Roys Criticizes Her Former Church for Allowing Chaperoned Pedophiles to Attend
Rules for ‘thee’ but not for ‘me’.
Faux-conservative discernment blogger, Julie Roys, is known for her criticism of complementarian pastors. Roys is obsessed with criticizing John MacArthur, reporting on everything from her awful appreciation of MacArthur’s home value to unproven accusations of COVID outbreaks in MacArthur’s church. While Roys loves to criticize complementarians and conservatives, she also loves to take to task anyone who doesn’t share her views on how the church should treat sex abusers.
Roys recently took to Twitter to criticize her former church, Church of the Resurrection, an Anglican congregation in Wheaton Illinois, for its ministry to a pedophile. The pedophile’s attendance was exposed by ACNAtoo, who criticized the church for allowing the man to come to church.
Roys went on to claim that churches should not allow pedophiles into the church because even chaperoned pedophiles would commit sexual sin with children in their minds during the service.
The church responded to the doxxing of the pedophile and public criticism by issuing a statement that outlined several vital steps that the church had followed in the process of ministering to the pedophile, including a chaperone requirement, attendance boundaries, and disclosure of the man’s crimes to all staff and volunteers.
Looks great to us. While victims of sex abuse or parents of children would understandably be concerned about the safety of a congregation that ministers to sex offenders, one must ask how the scriptures govern the attendance of sex offenders. Such men are certainly not beyond the grace of God. Those offenders who repent and believe the Gospel are also not beyond the scriptural requirement to attend actual church services or function within the body. Contrary to Roys’ COVID-minded unscriptural beliefs that the gathering of the church can mean just about anything that anyone desires, repentant sex offenders are called to gather with the rest of the church body.
Of course, certain safeguards like those put in place by the Church of the Resurrection must be exactly and inexhaustibly followed to ensure the safety of the congregation.
Unfortunately, by opposing church programs that strictly and anonymously chaperone sex offender attendance, Julie not only betrays a lack of understanding of the importance of grace and a proper ecclesiology, but those at ACNAtoo increase the likelihood that repentant sex offenders who choose to attend church will instead find a church where they can slip in under the radar and attend without a chaperone or supervision. Unmonitored sex offenders are a much greater risk to a church than those who have a strict no-exceptions chaperone policy.
There are currently 767,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, meaning that 1 in every 429 people are sex offenders. In reality, there are hundreds, if not thousands of churches, that have ministry programs for pedophiles like the one implemented by Church of the Resurrection. These programs go largely unnoticed because no pastor in his right mind is going to list the program in his ministry directory or plaster it on the church sign for fear of the backlash from activists like Roys, who has demonstrated a fundamental inability to discern between faithful and unfaithful churches.
Julie believes that abusers should never be allowed back into the church, but Roys’ own standard does not apply to spiritual abusers. In 2022, She was forced to pull out of her own “Restore 2022” conference after being accused of committing gross and creepy spiritual abuse against a young teen, which Roy then deflected and had to issue multiple apologies, and for which she is still being criticized by survivor bloggers over.
Apparently, unlike sexual abuse, spiritual abuse has a one-year shelf-life, as Roys has already announced she will be part of the conference’s 2023 speaker lineup.
Rules for ‘thee’ but not for ‘me’.