The description of this ex-offender's lifestyle is truly depressing:

http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/forum/topics/should-repentant-sex-offenders

"I have absolutely no friends where I live and would appreciate your prayers that God will send a Christian across my path so I might have some support and encouragement for my faith, that I cling to dearly.

"Whilst 10 years have passed since my last offence, in 4 out of 5 churches I have approached for Christian fellowship, the door has been slammed firmly shut in my face. In every case I approached the churches with an honest account of my circumstances, with a complete antecedance of my past offences. The only church that was prepared to accept me had a minister who confessed to feeling most distressed by my presence and although there were no children or Sunday school at this particular church, the minister wanted to inform the entire church board, some two thirds of the congregation, by post, of my application to join them."

I'm working on getting to post on the discussion this has generated - I've only just been made aware of the thread - if others here can do likewise this could be helpful; a moderated registration is required to do so.