Ariana Grande being groped at her breast by pastor at Aretha Franklin funeral

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

All of this is creepy and disgusting.  I hate forced humble bragging pastor humor..”aww shucks im just so old and innocent and behind the times HONK HONK grope grope...I thought you wuz just a burriter from the tacko bell hyuck hyuck.”

I certainly agree with this.  

I'll suspend judgment as to whether or not the touch was "intentional" to Ms. Grande.  But the guy did not carry himself in a pastoral way.

This pastor does seem to be getting a lot of slack here.  If this were at Thomas Road Baptist Church and the Pastor was Jonathan Falwell, would folks here be suspending judgment as they have here?

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

This s**t is sick and not funny.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Probably an unpopular opinion: but Ariana Grande is extremely talented. She has a great singing voice. I don't voluntarily listen to her songs or anything, but of all those teenybopper Nickelodeon/Disney Channel stars that were probably grown in a lab, she is the only one I've seen with actual talent.
Back on topic, this incident definitely seems awkward at the very least, whether he intentionally  groped her or not, him touching her at all feels a bit sleazy.

[Doimper]

Watched the video, and find it very hard to believe that it wasn't intentional. He's clearly digging his fingers into the side of her breast.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Watched the video, and find it very hard to believe that it wasn't intentional. He's clearly digging his fingers into the side of her breast.

Photographs can sometimes be a bit deceiving, but that pastor's comments afterward didn't help his cause.  The apology for being "overly familiar" appears to be driving by the fact that he knew he was caught on camera.

 

[dead0man]

This Democratic Convention was weird.

made me laugh

[libertpaulian]

If you look at her body language, she's clearly uncomfortable.  He knew what he was doing.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

If you look at her body language, she's clearly uncomfortable.  He knew what he was doing.

I suppose I'm unsuspending my judgment.

[SingingAnalyst]

Probably an unpopular opinion: but Ariana Grande is extremely talented. She has a great singing voice. I don't voluntarily listen to her songs or anything, but of all those teenybopper Nickelodeon/Disney Channel stars that were probably grown in a lab, she is the only one I've seen with actual talent.
Back on topic, this incident definitely seems awkward at the very least, whether he intentionally  groped her or not, him touching her at all feels a bit sleazy.

^^^ This. I can tell by the look on Grande's face that she is very uncomfortable.

I see "that look" as a teachable moment for guys: if a woman gives you that look, you've gone too far.

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I imagine this pastor does this sort of thing in his church all the time, but it gets excused cause "haha he does that all the time", but he forgot he had an (inter)national audience who would rightly not give him the benefit of the doubt.