Woman Can Sue Her Pastor For Revealing Affair To Congregation

[matcom]

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FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Texas court says a woman can sue her pastor for allegedly telling their congregation that she had an extramarital affair and was planning to divorce her husband.

Peggy Penley was a member of the Rev. C.L. Westbrook's Crossland Community Bible Church when he involved her and her then-husband in counseling to help their troubled marriage.

After Penley shared her plans with the pastor, she says, he wrote a letter to the congregation saying she was involved with another man and planned to get divorced, so church members must break "fellowship with her until the time of repentance andrestoration."

Church bylaws allow the congregation to discipline members for inappropriate behavior.

http://www.wftv.com/family/3429593/detail.html

[WI_DEM]

1. Good sue his sorry ass

maybe some of these fundamentalists will stop their holier than thou attitudes.

[Wickerman]

2. well, its an improvement over stoning

but not much. Gawd, I love a fundie

[arwalden]

9. Look. I-- I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was,

'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.'

[Fenris]

3. This happened to my grandfather in the fifties.

Church o' Christ. He was having an affair, and the pastor revealed it to the whole congregation. My dad got up, walked out of the church, and never went back.

[King Of Paperboys]

4. I hope she gets every penny that asshole and his "church" have.

Fucker. Sanctimonious fucker.

[colonel odis]

5. now there's the love of christ in action!

shithead. with it being texas, she oughta whup his ass as well as sue him.

[pagerbear]

6. Guess they forgot about the woman at the well

[el_gato]

7. So much for confiding in your preacher

But I think religeon is a scam anyway.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. What is in any way Christian about this?

Judge not....etc,etc.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Good. That guy deserves to have some problems from this

Gives a bad name to ministers, I'd say, and it's a total violation of trust and emminently unChristian.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Nothing like shaming a person until they behave

Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/liberalchristians.htm

[cmf]

12. That sounds like a church I'd like to join

not.

:silly: