BREAKING NEWS! BOMB THREAT AT GATEWAY CHURCH WHERE PREDATOR PASTOR ROBERT MORRIS WORKED FOR 35 YEARS — CONFUSION ABOUNDS AT GATEWAY CHURCH — EVANGELICALISM THE OTHER WHORE “IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN…”
The Southlake campus of Gateway Church—the embattled Texas megachurch whose pastor, Robert Morris, resigned this week amid child sex abuse allegations—was evacuated by police Monday due to a bomb threat, Southlake Police said.
“Gateway Church received a general bomb threat that was reported to us, though it didn’t specify the Southlake location,” Southlake Public Information Officer Brad Uptmore told The Roys Report (TRR). “As a precaution, an evacuation was conducted and officers and firefighters cleared the building with nothing located.”
According to a police report obtained by TRR, the threat was called in around 6:30 p.m. on Monday. The report notes that responders included a battalion, engine, and medic from the Southlake Fire Department, as well as several members of the Southlake Police Department.
The threat comes after longtime Gateway Pastor Robert Morris was accused last Friday of sexually molesting a 12-year-old girl about 40 years ago. This prompted an admission by Morris of “moral failure” years ago with a “young lady.”
Following public outcry, Morris resigned from Gateway on Tuesday. The Gateway elders said in a statement that they didn’t know the age of the person with whom Morris had a moral failing.
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However, the victim, Cindy Clemishire, said in a statement to TRR that both Morris and at least one Gateway elder knew the details of her abuse in 2005.
According to the Southlake Police Report, officers on Monday were able to clear the Gateway campus building by 8:30 p.m. Monday and determine that the bomb threat call had come from a phone in the 817 area code. This area code covers the western part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
The IT department at Gateway told police that the number is “a receiving Zoom number only and cannot make outgoing calls,” the report said.
Police discovered the number is associated with a woman at a phone number in Wichita Falls, Texas, the report stated. Police called the woman, who reportedly suffers from dementia, and spoke with both her and her grandson. Both claimed the number is “very old” and hasn’t been used by the woman “in over 20 years.”
Parents of students at conference not told of threat
Today, about 3,000-4,000 high school students are gathered at the Southlake campus for Gateway’s annual Student Conference, which began last night and ends Friday evening.
Keatin Black, who’s 14-year-old daughter is attending the conference, told TRR that Gateway didn’t notify parents about the bomb threat.
“I think that’s something parents have a right know,” Black said. “Then, we can make an informed decision about whether we want to send our kids or not.”
Black also told TRR that the conference ended an hour early last night—at 9 p.m. instead of 10 p.m.—without notifying parents. Black noted that if an event at school ends early, the school always sends an automated email to parents or calls them.
Black said she already had “pause” about whether to send her daughter to the conference, given the scandal involving Pastor Morris. Black said she expected an email from Gateway, informing parents about what had happened and assuring them that their children’s safety is a top priority and that all the staff and volunteers at the conference had been fully vetted.
“But they didn’t address that with the parents. There was nothing,” Black said.
source: https://julieroys.com/embattled-gateway-church-evacuated-this-week-after-bomb-threat/