It seemed too long since we've had a fundie sex scandal, but now we have this:
Sex Scandal Hits Atlanta-Area Megachurch
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- 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.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.
No wetsuits or foot tapping, but it's still got that certain something.
He does have that girbil look!
Posted by: mandt | November 19, 2007 at 04:04 PM
And so...
"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned...!"
becomes
"Forgive me, Sinners, for I have Fathered!"
Oh, Mother...
Posted by: Josef Balzer Askeaton Ireland | November 19, 2007 at 05:37 PM
Well, if we're concerned with who fathered whom I'm guessing blood tests won't help, what with all that specious "science" and all. Who do we believe is the father?
Posted by: tata | November 20, 2007 at 08:49 AM
Now in fairness, the Paulks have been randy bastards for decades. Paulk the Elder has been in more than one paternity suit.
See, this is the kind of Christianity I can get behind.
Better than being in front of it!
Posted by: actor212 | November 20, 2007 at 12:22 PM
So didn't you just know that it was going to be an "earl" or "billy bob"...I did...but that is because I have lots of Southern relatives...go to a family reunion and yell "Hey earl"..half the room turns round....( now at this church that might be true too)....
Posted by: enigma4ever | November 21, 2007 at 01:19 AM
The end of Blowvember is nearly approaching. There are still so many wingnut and fundie sex scandals to uncover. How about extending this into Dickcember?
Posted by: Comandante Agi | November 21, 2007 at 04:48 AM
Is it going to be called Dickember? That's official?
That doesn't slip off the tongue so easily...
Posted by: actor212 | November 21, 2007 at 08:47 AM
Paulk'in A!
Posted by: mandt | November 21, 2007 at 11:20 AM