OREGON
KATU
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By Thom Jensen KATU News and KATU.com Staff
HILLSBORO, Ore. – A local pastor stuck up for the sex offenders and ex-convicts Tuesday who attend a special service at his church next to an elementary school.
But James Gleason, lead pastor at Sonrise Church, said he’d consider moving the service after parents of children at the school complained and KATU aired a story about the controversy last week.
Every Sunday evening 120 people, mostly ex-cons, meet at the church, which is right next to Quatama Elementary School. Some of the felons are sex offenders. But Gleason said he won’t tell neighbors exactly who these people are and what crimes they committed.
“I would never put a picture of John Smith up and say here’s his sexual crime, and he attends this Light My Way service,” he said.
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