BWAHAHAHA!

[ebonlock]

Don't drink anything before you read this, trust me:

An executive committee member of the Southern Baptist Convention was arrested on a lewdness charge for propositioning a male plainclothes policeman outside a hotel, police said.

Lonnie Latham, senior pastor at South Tulsa Baptist Church, was booked into Oklahoma County Jail Tuesday night on a misdemeanor charge of offering to engage in an act of lewdness, police Capt. Jeffrey Becker said. Latham was released on $500 bail Wednesday afternoon.

Latham, who has spoken out against homosexuality, asked the officer to join him in his hotel room for oral sex. Latham was arrested and his 2005 Mercedes automobile was impounded, Becker said.

He has also spoken out against same-sex marriage and in support of a Southern Baptist Convention directive urging its 42,000 churches to befriend gays and lesbians and try to convince them that they can become heterosexual "if they accept Jesus Christ as their savior and reject their 'sinful, destructive lifestyle."

Ah, but the punchline is:

When he left jail, he told Oklahoma City television station KFOR:

"I was set up. I was in the area pastoring to police."....

My, what an interesting definition for "pastoring"!

Comments

[jsmitty-o.livejournal.com]

bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Although, in all seriousness, I wish people of same gender orientation didn't have to feel so isolated and threatened such that they feel they need to actively speak out against their own natural tendency. That's really rather sad. =(

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I'm not so sure I'd chalk it up to that, I mean plenty of fire and brimstone fundies in the past have been exposed in heterosexual sex scandals. These people just have a bizarre concept of their own sexuality, they try to bury their impulses in order to follow their repressive religious beliefs, and end up doing dangerous, stupid, and often illegal things when those impulses overpower them.

[jsmitty-o.livejournal.com]

So, you're saying repressive religious beliefs and sexuality and the scandals that may happen as a result are independent of one's orientation? Yeah, I'd agree with that. =)

[psyfic.livejournal.com]

Definitely a direct corollation. When I studied psych, esp. Deviant Behaviour, lots of the particularly bad serial killers had that pattern. Look at John Wayne Gacy or Jeffery Dahmer, both men who felt so much revulsion at their own sexual orientation that they killed those who made them feel desire.

Thank You

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

God knows (ha!) that I needed a laugh today. Given how hot this coffee is, it's a good thing you posted the warning too ;]

[tyee.livejournal.com]

Now that's my kind of pastoring!

[tyee.livejournal.com]

more on the religious nutjob theme: http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=770

The Rev. Pat Robertson said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is being punished by God for dividing the Land of Israel.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I'm always amazed when the media not only listen to what Pat Robertson says, but feel the need to air it as well. That man is one straightjacket away from a rubber room.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

This just fucking cracks me up! I didn't know Southern Baptists give good blowjobs. Maybe I've been too hard on them, and maybe they're too hard for each other.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that."