Megachurch Archbishop Impregnates His Brother's Wife

Posted by Paddy , Brave New Films at 6:43 AM on November 20, 2007.

This post, written by Paddy, originally appeared on Cliff Schecter's Brave New Films Blog

I knew we'd gone too long without a good fundie sex scandal! No dive suits. Bummer.

Sex Scandal Hits Atlanta-Area Megachurch

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother's wife and fathered a child by her.

Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk's family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church a few Sundays ago and revealed the secret exposed by a recent court-ordered paternity test.

In truth, this is not the first - or even the second - sex scandal to engulf Paulk and the independent, charismatic church. But this time, he could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair.

The archbishop, his brother and the church are being sued by former church employee Mona Brewer, who says Earl Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation.

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