Police: Pastor propositioned officer
A pastor who has spoken out against homosexuality was arrested after propositioning a male undercover police officer outside a hotel, authorities said.
2006 is only six days old, and we already have a bumper crop of DUMB@$$E$. Man, I can’t keep up…but I’m sure as hell trying….
Rev. Ronnie Latham’s heart may be in the right place (at least by his thinking), but his problem these days can be found farther south. Yes, it would seem that Latham has been thinking with the wrong head, and we all know what can happen when we let the little soldier do our thinking. Yep…you end up with a DUMB@$$ AWARD.
Of course, Latham isn’t the first homophobe to be arrested for propositioning an undercover cop with an offer to run it up the flagpole. No, what makes Latham a DUMB@$$ is his inability to recognize his own hypocrisy. Latham condemns the very behavior that he apparently is engaging in. But it’s OK…he’s a man of God, and his God is a forgiving God. Perhaps so, but I doubt that his God has a high tolerance for hypocrites and DUMB@$$E$.
As the Rev. Lonnie Latham, 59, left jail Wednesday, he said “I was set up. I was in the area pastoring to police.”
Uh…and I suppose your version of “pastoring” involves dropping trou and “turning the other cheek”?? And, he wasn’t grabbing his ankles- he was tying his shoelaces….
Latham, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee, was arrested Tuesday and charged with offering to engage in an act of lewdness, Capt. Jeffrey Becker said.
Calls to Latham and his South Tulsa Baptist Church were not returned.
Really? What a shock….
Latham has supported a convention directive urging members 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.”’
Of course, if you’re a man of God, you can partake of this “sinful, destructive lifestyle” while suffering no ill effects. Apparently, being a pastor means getting a free pass. Uh, yeah…and I suppose this is the Baptist version of “immersion journalism”. Right; how can you address the evil, sinful gay lifestyle unless you have partaken of it yourself?
