Monday, November 19, 2007
Another church, another sex scandal
I am trying mightily to figure out what it is with churches and sex of the scandalous kind. This time it was lying with his brothers wife and just plain lying.
The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother's wife and fathered a child by her.There are many good and decent church men and women out there, but the bad ones are growing in number. I've known three myself. The tribulations of others does bring Pastafarianism into a good light.
Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk's family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church a few Sundays ago and revealed the secret exposed by a recent court-ordered paternity test.
In truth, this is not the first - or even the second - sex scandal to engulf Paulk and the independent, charismatic church. But this time, he could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair.
The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk's nephew.
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