The Rev. Merton E. Parks, the pastor of Oswegatchie First Baptist Church, in Oswegatchie, New York has resigned from his job after being investigated for downloading child pornography.

St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin M. Wells was quoted as saying of his detectives interview with the reverend, “It is part of an ongoing investigation from some information we received.”

The pastor, who reportedly admits to downloading pornographic images of young teens, says he did nothing criminally wrong.

The Reverend Parks, who reportedly has been married for 36 years and has five children and says he has problems in the “get it up department”, was quoted as saying of the alleged child pornography, “It was some indiscretion on my part. There was no malicious intent. I was trying to help myself with a medical problem. I didn’t know they were illegal.”

Oddly enough, Reverend Parks has not been arrested for his “indiscretion”, at least not yet.

Which of course gives one cause to wonder what other crimes might be explained away as “indiscretions”….

“Yeah, judge I did take the money. But honest, I didn’t know it was a crime. By the way, did I mention that I go to church every once-in-a-while?”…

Pastor resigns in probe of porn