Sex was happening inside a church.
The altar was tarnished by a sexual act involving three individuals.
And now the priest who was involved has been fired, but
we might actually be on his side.
Okay, so let me give you the details of this story.
Took place in Louisiana and it even involved obscenity charges,
which as a Californian blows my mind.
Because in our state,
you will literally come across people fornicating on the streets.
But nonetheless, let me continue.
Travis Clark, 39-year old was arrested in 2020 after a passer by claims,
he saw the light on in a Pearl River church and walked up to witness Clark and
2 women filming themselves having sex on the altar.
Court documents show the police seize sex toys, stage lights and
two recording devices, a tripod mounted camera and a cell phone.
Now the Times-Picayune reports that Clark will serve three years
of supervised probation and pay $1,000 fine.
The felony institutional vandalism charge against him was dropped.
Now, I wanna be clear before I continue with more details into the story.
We're talking about three consenting adults.
Now having sex in the church, I can understand why people would find that
offensive, but offensive is different from criminal and
the fact that he got criminal charges for doing this blows my mind.
Now, this is the fascinating part of the story.
Archbishop Gregory Aymond called Clark's behavior deplorable and said his
desecration of the altar in the church was demonic and I'm infuriated by his actions.
Ayman had the altar removed and set it on fire.
>> That's hilarious.
That's so funny.
He's like, my God, this thing is so dirty.
Burn it, okay?
I'm sure he had a similar reaction though, to other much worse crimes, Ana.
>> Yeah, that same month, another priest in the same
archdiocese was credibly accused of molestation.
And while he was eventually removed from public ministry,
Aymond notably did not call him demonic.
>> Didn't burn anything he touched?
So if you're having consensual sex with two women,
that is demonic and the worst thing in the world.
Burn the whole goddamn place down.
You're molesting little kids.
Well, that's Tuesday in the Catholic church.
So I'm glad they at least moved him out in the old days.
They would have kept him and moved him around.
>> Now the two women he was being intimate with appear to be sex workers and
they are also dominatrices, which great.
By the way, and this is the sick part.
Now, these sex workers are being harassed and threatened online.
And so they're having to respond to it which it's so ridiculous, but
Mindy Dixon released her official effing statement on Twitter with a devil GIF and
told harassers it was absurd.
Trying to shame her with scripture and tell her she's going to burn in a GoFundMe
to help pay her legal fees, Melissa Chang who was the other woman pointed out that
all parties involved were consenting adults.
The three adults initially faced two felony charges.
Obscenity and institutional vandalism, but
the women entered a plea agreement with the state in July of this
year to a misdemeanor count of institutional vandalism.
They agreed to testify for the prosecution in Clark's trial.
Judge Ellen Creel gave them each a suspended sentence and
two years of supervised probation, okay?
So look, to be clear, even though I'm not religious, I understand why
folks would be very offended by this act happening within that church, right?
I get it, so don't do it.
It's not a good idea.
But with that said, I don't really think there's any actual criminality here.
>> No, let him go, let him go.
So look, should he be fired?
Of course, that's ridiculous to do in any place of work, let alone a church, right?
But what are these charges, obscenity and institutional vandalism?
What the hell does institutional vandalism mean?
That means, well, we didn't like what you did to an institution.
Remember, there's no actual vandalism.
>> Can I just say, there's institutional vandalism happening in this country all
day, all night like gutting our institutions, weakening them.
I mean, institutional vandalism is, it's as American as apple pie.
>> And obscenity, I literally don't know what the hell that means.
I thought we got rid of the obscenity laws.
>> Yeah. >> So you're doing something
non-consensual.
They should throw the book at you, but
you're doing something obscene with three consenting adults.
What the hell are you guys talking about?
Why is that?
I mean, and I guarantee you that everyone who's in favor of them being charged
with crimes would say, yeah, man, we're for freedom.
But if you have the wrong kind of sex, we want you locked up.
Okay, that that gross us out.
What kind of, I'm still thinking about it, but I want you put in jail, okay?
So no, this isn't freedom.
This is the exact opposite of freedom, okay?
Now, second point here.
Look, I was gonna say, look man, that priest, it is what it is.
I don't think you should go to jail and I was gonna be more favorable to him.
I mean, he's got courage.
Let's put it that way, okay, but get a load of what he does it then.
Because they're all bad guys, okay?
So I'm gonna read you from the local paper here.
I'm gonna read from Jezebel, actually.
Clark's lawyer told Creel on Monday that the expertise shouldn't have
to serve active probation, okay?
He's quote, in this situation, it's an incredibly specific set of facts and
conditions that seem very unlikely to ever happen again, said Michael Kennedy.
He then said, the two sex workers who both live out of state are more
likely to repeat their offense.
So the priest lawyer says he should get probation, cuz he's not gonna do it again.
What are the chances? By the way,
the chance of him doing again is 98%.
Anyway, but he's like the sex workers, it's their fault.
They're the immoral ones.
They're probably gonna do it again, you should punish that.
No, that's it.
You're a terrible person, terrible person.
So still, he shouldn't go to jail for just being a terrible person, but he is and
he definitely should have been fired.