WOMAN SAYS SHE WAS ARMY CHAPLAIN'S 'SEX SLAVE'

[rebel with a cause]

By ANDY SOLTIS

March 17, 2007 -- A brazen upstate Army chaplain made a British woman his sex toy to "spice" up his boring marriage and threatened to kill her when she wanted to break away, officials said yesterday.

Capt. John Lau, 50, told a military court he took Amanda Tyler into his Fort Drum home, turned her into his "second wife," "married" her in a mock Niagara Falls service, and took her to live with his real wife and family.

But Tyler, 34, described the ordained Southern Baptist minister as a sexual sadist who controlled and terrified her.

"The price for objections is severe. If you object, you pay, because he's 'The Master,' " she told the Watertown Daily Times.

http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172007/news/nationalnews/army_chaplains_sex_slave_nationalnews_andy_soltis.htm

This is the NY Post, and the article is not political, but since he is a Chaplain and this is another sex scandal, Since he is one of the army's finest religious leaders, who thought that a second wife would spice up his marriage. anyway, I thought some of you might like it for some light Sunday reading. ;-)

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. This is exactly how I picture the depravity of Southern Baptist.

You give someone that much control over someone else's decision-making, and they're bound to go too far.

[Infomaniac]

2. Send it to Olberman.

This guy is a candidate for "Worst person in the world."

[TahitiNut]

3. Fifty years old and a Captain? He's certainly NOT "one of the army's finest religious leaders."

Even in the Reserves, that's a remarkably low rank for someone that age. Even the rank of Major is (nearly) automatic with time-in-grade. Even if he's a mustang, it's low.

[rebel with a cause]

4. Sorry about that

I know nothing about the military. I come from a home where we were taught Don't volunteer, don't enlist. ;-)

[madeline_con]

5. So he's low all around. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

6. The lord sure do work in some mysterious assed ways sometimes

Would you want a depraved nutcase like that, praying for your kid's, rapidly departing soul, on some lonely, bloody, battlefield in some far away land, where he or she had been fighting for Exxon and Karl Rovism and a chance at a college education and a free boonie hat? SOUNDS "IMMORAL" AS HELL TO ME!

[madeline_con]

7. Any word on what the first wife thought about this? n/t

[rebel with a cause]

9. She was probably his slave also, but who knows

she might have been as kinky as he was. Anyway, it seems she accepted the second wife and someone had to tell him this woman was going to leave for him to send her the threatening emails. At least that is how I'm reading it.

[shadowknows69]

8. This story just broke up here

I don't read the Watertown daily rag so I didn't know the sordid details. Nice of our little base to be so famous as to make the Post. Sigh.

[rebel with a cause]

10. compare that story to this one.

Suicide Was the Only Way Out of Iraq for Col. Westhusing

By Robert Bryce, Texas Observer. Posted March 16, 2007.

Ted Westhusing was a true believer. And that was his fatal flaw.

A colonel in the U.S. Army, Westhusing had a good job teaching English at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was a devout Catholic who went to church nearly every Sunday. He had a wife and three young children.

He didn't have to go to Iraq. But Westhusing was such a believer that he volunteered for what he thought was a noble cause. At West Point, Westhusing sought out people who opposed the war in an effort to change their minds. "He absolutely believed that this was a just war," said one officer who was close to him. "He was wholly enthusiastic about this mission." His tour of duty in Iraq was to last six months.

About a month before he was to return to his family -- on June 5, 2005 -- Westhusing was found dead in his trailer at Camp Dublin in Baghdad. At the time, he was the highest-ranking American soldier to die in Iraq. The Army's Criminal Investigation Command report on Westhusing's death explained it as a "perforating gunshot wound of the head and Manner of Death was suicide."

He was 44.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/49233/

He just couldn't live with what he saw going on in Iraq. Did he expect too much? Or was he like many of us, he expected more than what this country is willing to do?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. I feel sorry for the kids

they have to be messed up if this was going on in the home.

[BlooInBloo]

12. Religion is not the friend of the civilized.

[rebel with a cause]

15. My take on it is

religion should be a personnal thing. Live the best life you can, believe whatever you want as long as it hurts no other living being, and be kind to everyone/everything else on this earth. The big exception to the last one is if someone is trying to kill you, you don't have to let them. (Thought I'd clarify that before someone flamed me for it.) ;-)

[Joanne98]

13. They're all the same. I have a rule to judge them by...

The brighter the halo, the more evil they are....

[rebel with a cause]

14. As my mother liked to say about members of the clergy.

"They all have feet of clay." My father was a Baptist minister. :7

By the way, my father was not evil, but he was only as good as the woman he was married to was.