twenty counts of felony theft<\/a>.<\/p>\nI’m charitable enough to both consider him innocent until proven guilty, and to not take untoward pleasure in his misfortune (or on the general scandal of it all) … but I’ll confess that I’m pleased to see some egg on the faces of all of those people who were sooooooo sure that the duration of the investigation proved that the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado was full of vindictive, evil, non-Biblical, nasssssty sorts who were out to smear Armstrong’s name.<\/p>\n
More as I read about it.<\/p>\n
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(via Ginny)<\/p>\n
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