UPC Pastor Convicted of Slander in Pulpit!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by DAII

Add stupidity to the reasons for divorce.

What if that was the "straw" that broke the camel's back?

[MrsMcD]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

He listed nine forms of fornication and said that she had committed one of them. And he does have free speech in his pulpit. I'm glad he did say that. If he's mean and overbearing, we can always find another church.

The woman still was in a compromising situation. I'm not going to look past that. Sorry.

Obviously he doesn't have free speech in his pulpit or he wouldn't have lost the case.

He is not mean spirited. He is very strict with standards and everything else.

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by MrsMcD

She shouldn't have been strutting her stuff with a guy she isn't married to but that doesn't justify a pastor telling saints about it from the pulpit!

OR using it as a justification for divorce and remarriage.

[Charnock]

Originally Posted by DAII

Add stupidity to the reasons for divorce.

And you're still married?

[DAII]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I'm looking at what was wrong with her that she would show up dressed like that? Something isn't right there. I could see the pastor and husband furious over her actions. Even if she wasn't in church and he was, he isn't going to be happy with her. She isn't being loyal to him. There was a separation in lifestyle and commitment. Something was not being equally yoked.

Again it seems to hold true with females ...

but if her husband had "backslid" and gone to the beach in just his shorts and chugged down beers every Sunday ...

Mrs. Driver would be told to "hold on" to God while venerated as a pious Pentecostal saint with no talk about divorce.

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

He listed nine forms of fornication and said that she had committed one of them. And he does have free speech in his pulpit. I'm glad he did say that. If he's mean and overbearing, we can always find another church.

The woman still was in a compromising situation. I'm not going to look past that. Sorry.

For the compromising situation, you can't even say whether she was in a compromising situation. You don't know if the man's wife was there or not. (if she was then it most definetely wasn't a compromising situation).

As for what the pastor said, he called wearing a bikini in front of a man a sin of fornication. You are seriously okay with that?

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by DAII

Or maybe she's a HO ... right PO?

Maybe so, Danny. Maybe so. Would you want your wife to wear a bikini in front of your male friends?

[Charnock]

Originally Posted by DAII

Again it seems to hold true with females ...

but if her husband had backslid and gone to the beach in just his shorts and chugged down beers every Sunday ...

Mrs. Driver would be told to "hold on" to God.

Now that's the unmitigated truth right there.

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by Charnock

At the very least, stupidity.

I love how you guys give her all of the benefit of the doubt, but staple Fogarty to the nearest cork board.

This woman tried three times to talk
to Fogarty and he ignored her.

Are you trying to defend someone who may not have had both sides of the story
when he said what he did over the pulpit?

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I'm looking at what was wrong with her that she would show up dressed like that? Something isn't right there. I could see the pastor and husband furious over her actions. Even if she wasn't in church and he was, he isn't going to be happy with her. She isn't being loyal to him. There was a separation in lifestyle and commitment. Something was not being equally yoked.

Sure.

But still not adultery.

Possibly headed that way? Could be. But you don't have grounds for divorce based on what could happen.