Another Baptist phony (preacher) arrested on soliciting male cop

[Imagine My Surprise]

and naturally he's outspoken against homosexuality. Off with his head! Both of them!

http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/5845859/detail.html

Tulsa Pastor Arrested In OKC On Lewdness Charge

POSTED: 4:03 pm CST January 4, 2006
UPDATED: 4:29 pm CST January 4, 2006

OKLAHOMA CITY -- An executive committee member of the Southern Baptist Convention was arrested on a lewdness charge for propositioning a 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.

Calls to Latham at his church were not immediately returned Wednesday.

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

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

The arrest took place in the parking lot of the Habana Inn, which is in an area where the public has complained about male prostitutes flagging down cars, Becker said. The plainclothes officers was investigating these complaints.

The lewdness charge carries a penalty of up to one year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

Latham is one of four Southern Baptist Convention executive committee members from Oklahoma.

He spoke out last year against a measure, ultimately approved by voters, to expand tribal gaming.

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."'

The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

[wtmusic]

1. Any minister who drives a late-model Mercedes

is a phony in my book

[DRoseDARs]

2. Is it just me, or does it seem that all these guys caught doing improper..

...things are driving expensive cars like Mercedes and BMW's and the like? :shrug:

[Touchdown]

8. Alright. Look, bash Mercs all you want.

...but leave my BMW alone!:P

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

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

:rofl:

Well, I guess if you call BJs "pastoring"...

[DRoseDARs]

7. "Pastoring to police" ? There's a slip of the guilty tongue.

Duh it was a setup. That's how these operations work. Wow did he ever just step into this mess with his words. :thumbsup:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

21. Pastoring? Is that new slang for Hummer? n/t

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We can help.

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[donheld]

4. "I was in the area pastoring to police."

Pastors have a lot larger outreach than I thought. :rofl:

[Imagine My Surprise]

6. I once had an Assembly of God minister who told me --

long before I knew I was gay myself -- that he "had some academic books on the subject". Well, this tongues-speaking, hands-laying, Lincoln driving phony was one of the first to die of AIDS.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Wow

I love how they all claim to know everything like that. That's why it's called faith. In reality you don't know silch. Just because I'm a Christian doesn't mean I know science without having a degree.

[abramoffisajackass]

5. Set up by the police

Right....................

[meganmonkey]

9. Well, you know how persecuted White Christian Men are in this society!

:rofl:

[Touchdown]

10. I bet this preacher said "Yeah, Right!"

... when Geroge Michael used the same defense. Of course in Michael's case, it really was entrapment. The cop waved his dick first.

[Bluebear]

11. And here he is>>>>>>>>>>>>

Lonnie Latham
Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention

P.S. "his 2005 Mercedes automobile was impounded" . . .is THIS where contributions go?

[Touchdown]

12. Ugh! No wonder he has to pay for it.

:puke:

[Imagine My Surprise]

28. right on!

[Imagine My Surprise]

17. thank you for posting that dick weed's picture...

we should all send 100 pennies (seriously) to that church and earmark it "for your special police ministry."

[wtmusic]

18. He'll make a tearful apology to his congregation

and rake in more dough than ever

[Imagine My Surprise]

22. speaking of Jimmy Swaggart...

at least HE had the good sense to drive a hundred miles to another city before trying something like that.

[Imagine My Surprise]

24. I stand corrected! He DID drive to another city for this!

He's pastor in Tulsa and the charge occurred in Oklahoma City. Which makes his "ministering to the police" non-sense look like the big joke that it is. He's toast.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Of course he does the old trick in the book

"Satan made me do it!" Not those exact words but same meaning. My preacher has always spoken out against that phrase since we have freewill and are responsible for our own actions and deeds. If he was set up why didn't he tell the police about it? Give me a break. Pastoring to police? Don't they, oh I don't know, have a job to do by protecting the city and keeping a look out? They don't need to be bothered by anybody whether you're a preacher or not.

[Imagine My Surprise]

15. And I would go out on a limb here to suggest that just maybe...

the Tulsa Police Dept. has their OWN chaplain thank-you-very-much. I hope they nail this fucker. Not just because he's any ole Baptist preacher hypocrite. But because he's a HIGH-RANKING hypocrite. He IS the enemy.

[Matariki]

16. why is this against the law?

it doesn't sound like he offered to pay, or asked for money, so it wasn't prostitution. was it illegal because of the language he used? because he asked a man? what?

[Imagine My Surprise]

19. My take on that is...

he may very well get off (no pun intended) on a technicality -- that he offered no
money. However, to me that's incidental to the significance of the story. If this were any old Joe Blow (oops, another one!)first of all it would NOT be in the news. But this guy is a high-ranking anti-gay Baptist -- and the fact that he would even ask a guy into his hotel for oral sex totally blows his cover. (damn, I did it again.)

Anyway, if he didn't offer money, then he shouldn't be arrested for soliciting. But the "request" clearly occurred in an area where that was clearly the intent. And I doubt if the plainclothes cop looked like Newt Gingrich.

[Imagine My Surprise]

20. I would also bet that Tulsa has a little something on the books...

against men asking another man for a blow job.

[earthboundmisfit]

23. Apparently this pastor was hoping to give new meaning

to the term "speaking in tongues"...

[Imagine My Surprise]

26. Baptists preachers do NOT speak in tongues --

but evidently use them for other purposes.

[mondo joe]

25. I don't see what makes him a phony preacher. Phony hetero yes, but not

a phony preacher.

[Imagine My Surprise]

27. Phony preacher because he preaches ONE thing and DOES another...

would that not make him a phony, or as Jesus would say, a hypocrite?

[mondo joe]

29. Just like all preachers. Or are some "without sin"?

[Imagine My Surprise]

30. None are "without sin" -- but I do believe there are some genuine ones

[FlaGranny]

31. What is he saying here?

'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."'

Either it didn't work or he hasn't really accepted Jesus as his savior.

Hypocrasy at its best.

[karlrschneider]

32. I started a thread on this right after the 6 pm news here in Tulsa

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=52315&mesg_id=52315

[Imagine My Surprise]

33. was this on the tulsa tv news?

[karlrschneider]

34. Yep, all 3 network locals. Dunno about Faux, I never watch it.

;-)

[Imagine My Surprise]

35. great!

i hope there are follow-ups.

[kevinbgoode]

36. Um..I think the Habana Inn is like a gay resort.

Now tell me a Baptist minister would be pastoring to police in the parking lot of a lively gay resort...lol