Pastor accused of paying homeless to fire-bomb ex professes innocence: ‘I never did pay them’

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Too much Leviticus?

Pastor accused of paying homeless to fire-bomb ex professes innocence: ‘I never did pay them’
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, January 13, 2014 10:56 EST

Not even a day after he was released from jail for allegedly fire-bombing his ex-girlfriend’s parent’s house, Fellowship Baptist Church Pastor Mike Lewis was leading a service in his rural California church.

The Vacaville, California pastor is accused of encouraging three homeless people in his church’s care to throw a Molotov cocktail through the front window of his ex-girlfriend’s parents’ house.

According to Sarah Nottingham, after she broke off her relationship with Lewis, he has been “trying to hurt” her and her family. She took out a restraining order against him last year.

“That’s the sickest part about it, is that this man claims to be a man of God,” she told CBS 13. She also alleges that Pastor Lewis vandalized her car and set fire to her shrubbery earlier this year.

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1. Relationship violence is

an ubiquitous problem in the US, predominantly perpetuated by men with low self esteem, anger issues, and an insatiable need for 'power over.'