UPC Pastor Convicted of Slander in Pulpit!

[MissBrattified]

"Not all Pentecostal churches are like this," Kennedy said. "You've got a pastor not in line with mainstream beliefs and practices. But that doesn't explain his conduct. What explains his conduct is that he needed to do a character assassination. The preacher did a hit job on Angela. It was a purification process of the future son-in-law to transfer his sins to Angela so that the congregation would support the remarriage."

"Kennedy said his case was helped considerably by the testimony of Angela Driver's ex-husband, James, who told the jury that he had "never accused her of sexual immorality, never thought she cheated on him." The stated reason for the divorce was irreconcilable differences."

Wow, the above really illustrates that this was probably all the pastor's idea--just to justify his daughter's marriage to Mr. Driver to the congregation. I wonder if the husband even knew in advance what his pastor was going to say in his "speech?" Somehow I doubt it.

The Daily Report article is much better and more detailed than the original link we were given.

"Trey Davis, the assistant pastor at her new church, testified that when he made a courtesy call to Angela Driver's old pastor to let him know she had found a new church, Fogarty slandered her again, saying she was a "compulsive liar" with a "spirit of a Jezebel."'

Typical.

It would be interesting to know how many couples have been forbidden to remarry under Fogarty's watch because they didn't divorce for permissible reasons. Or maybe...how many have been condemned because they remarried after an amicable divorce.