Family Scuffles, Pastor Says Jeans a Demon

[Sequoia]

BRISTOL, Tenn. Jan 20, 2005 — When scuffling sisters brought their family squabble into the Assemblies of Jesus Church, the preacher says the devil came, too. The Rev. Clarence June Love was just about to begin his Sunday service to a congregation of less than a dozen on Jan. 9, when sisters Reba Storey, 46, and Mary Steele, 64, entered the hall to talk to their 88-year-old mother, Maude Yates.

The sisters claim they wanted to tell their mother that Storey was going to have surgery. They say they came to church because another sister, 69-year-old Rosa Harrison, who is also the preacher's girlfriend, won't let them see Yates, who lives in a nursing home.

But what caught Love's eye when the sisters entered his church were their blue jeans forbidden for women in some Pentecostal churches. The 83-year-old preacher came down from his pulpit.

"You're not wearing pants in my church, you demon," Storey claimed the preacher said. "I said, 'I'm glad I serve a God who can work through my pants.'"

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[CatholicEdHead]

1. Jeans

are no problem in Catholic churches. I wear them all the time unless I am helping out in other areas for the mass.

That preacher has something way up his behind.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Fuckin' idiot Christians

That woman can go kill as many iraqi children as she wants, and I'll support her, but she better not do it in jeans!!

Jeans are from Satan!!

How do these assholes decide what clothing is "satanic" and what isn't? What the fuck is up with them? Why won't they just go away?

Dammit, it makes it embarassing to be a Christian.

Stupid assholes spending more time worrying over whether SpongeBob might be gay or whether an elderly woman is wearing jeans in a church or if Bill Clinton might have had an STD or if a desperate pregnant teen wants to get an abortion so that her abusive Christian father doesn't beat the living shit out of her for being a useless slut, than they worry about social justice, eocnomic resources, or, let's say, the murder of children in Iraq.

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. I guess the preacher is a khakis man

:shrug:

[Zenlitened]

4. So the man in the dress objected to the woman in pants?

Maybe the pants were too square for his tastes?

:shrug: