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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Sex Scandal At Evangelical Church

Here's a change of pace from the usual evasion/embezzling story we hear from so many of these evangelical mega-churches:

D.E. Paulk has been living his entire life believing (or at least claiming to believe) that he is the nephew of Archbishop Earl Paulk. As it turns out, Earl actually lay with his sister-in-law, Clariece, and that union led to the birth of D.E. (and those awesome sideburns).

D.E. ascended to the position of Head Pastor of Chapel Hill Harvester Church just a year and a half ago, but the decline of this particular church has been taking place since the early 90's, when they reached their peak of membership at about 10,000 members, and supported a Bible college, a TV ministry and two schools. The repeated allegations of sexual harassment and abuse on the part of Earl and his brother Don Paulk (Clariece's husband and the man until recently thought to be D.E.'s father) are often attributed as the reason for the decline of the church since then; they are reduced to a "fortress-like" cathedral on a 100-acre campus, and the college and schools are closed.

1 comments:

Dan said...

Thanks for filling in for me, buddy.