Radical Right Wing Christian Cleric Embroiled in Perjury and Adultery Scandal

Posted by Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone at 2:08 PM on January 15, 2008.

An update on the sexual scandal involving an 80 year old scion of a big old fundamentalist megachurch in Atlanta. Evidently there's evidence of serial adultery here. So the question is which Republican Presidential candidate does Earl Paulk endorse, Rudy Guiliani or Mitt Romeny.

OK, OK, I wrote about this nearly two months ago, but there's some new developments in the case of Earl Paulk, 80 year old serial adulterer and scion of the mega-church Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church in Atlanta. (Boy, isn't that a mouthful? And what kind of church has "Harvester" in its name?) Anyway, here's the news from CBS:

An 80-year-old leader of a suburban megachurch who is at the center of a sex scandal has been charged with lying under oath for saying he had sex outside marriage with only one other woman, court documents show.

A warrant for the arrest of Archbishop Earl Paulk, co-founder of Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church, was issued Monday, according to court documents. Paulk was making arrangements Monday night to turn himself in, WAGA-TV reported.

If he doesn't turn himself in, I imagine the authorities will be out there rounding Rev. Paulk up. I suspect they've got to be warned that this guy has really big balls. OK, maybe that's over the top, but he's accused, and it is confirmed by DNA of fathering his brother's son. Yeah, most religions consider that incest of one sort or another. Even if a religion does not condemn it, I'm going to do so. Check this out:

Former church employee Mona Brewer is suing Paulk, his brother and the church on allegations that Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. In a 2006 deposition stemming from the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his marriage was Brewer.

But the results of a court-ordered paternity test revealed in October that Paulk is the biological father of his brother's son, D.E. Paulk, who is now head pastor at the church. As part of Brewer's lawsuit, eight women have given sworn depositions that they were coerced into sexual relationships with Earl Paulk.

In the rest of the article it is clear this is not the first accusation against Paulk, and his brother, the cuckold, has also been the target of sexual coercion suits in the past.

I'm thinking more emphasis on abstinence is the solution here. But what do I know. I'm a Godless liberal after all. But I'm scrupulously faithful to my wife. Yeah, that's what you call moral superiority.

Tagged as: religion, religious right, perjury, paulk, adultery

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