Obama and his mentor Rev. Wright
He almost wrecked Barack Obama’s presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker’s marriage, and her job. Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual affair with the controversial, racially divisive man of the cloth while she was an executive assistant at a church headed by a popular Wright protégé. When word of the unholy alliance got out, Payne’s husband dumped her, and she was canned from the plum job at Friendship-West Baptist Church, she told The Post.
Not the first time for Rev. Wright to be naughty either. He is a sly one alright.
The preacher reportedly wooed Ramah (his current spouse) away from her first husband in the 1980s, when the couple came to marriage counseling at Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
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“I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that’s why I lost my job and why my husband divorced me,” Payne said. She refused to reveal when the adulterous affair started or how she met Wright. But fellow churchgoers at Friendship-West “found out about the affair in the spring,” Payne said. At the time, she was secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, a longtime Wright disciple. In April, Payne organized a series of Texas public appearances by Wright, 67. Weeks before, Obama had disavowed his preacher of 20 years after Wright’s anti-government rants came to light. “Liz was by Rev. Wright’s side day and night during those days,” a church source said. “It’s all true,” said Payne, adding that she has filed a wrongful-dismissal claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to get her job back.
In an ironic twist, Wright last night spoke at an East Orange, NJ, church revival on the subject of “unexpected problems.” “There’s no such thing as a problem-free relationship,” he told a packed Elmwood United Presbyterian Church. “In life, you’ll have unexpected problems.”
Those pesky emails tattletailed:
Payne’s husband, Fred Payne, 64, said he learned of the affair in late February, when he discovered e-mails between his wife and Wright. “There must have been about 80 of them, back and forth,” he said. “Wright said things like he was going to leave his wife for Elizabeth.” Wright has been married to his second wife, Ramah, for more than 20 years. After discovering he had been cuckolded, Fred Payne, who had married Elizabeth in October 2006, headed straight for divorce court.
“I was downright mad about this bull*!&%,” said Fred. He is “in the oil and gas business,” belongs to a hunting club and makes his own bullets in his garage. “People wouldn’t be happy to know that my wife was sleeping with a black man.” He added, “Rev. Haynes doesn’t like the interracial thing, either. This was quite an issue for him.” Elizabeth Payne said she has been banished by Haynes and the flock at Friendship-West. “I’m not a member of the congregation anymore; I’m not even allowed on the premises,” she said.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09092008/news/nationalnews/o_pastor_in_sex_scandal_128142.htm
http://quipster.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/reverend-jeremiah-wrights-shocking-affairs/
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/09/report-jeremiah-wright-has-affair-with-another-mans-wife/
And then there is the Catholic Church & Ms. Pelosi. Off to the woodshed. You obviously don’t understand the teachings on when life begins. What would the church lady have to say about this?? It is not the catechism she knew.
In 2008, although NBC probably didn’t intend it, Meet the Press has become a national window on the flawed moral reasoning of some Catholic public servants.On August 24, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, describing herself as an ardent, practicing Catholic, misrepresented the overwhelming body of Catholic teaching against abortion to the show’s nationwide audience, while defending her “pro-choice” abortion views. On September 7, Sen. Joseph Biden compounded the problem to the same Meet the Press audience.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/09/denver-bishop-to-biden-abortion-foundational-issue/
According to Ed Morrissey: Catholicism is a voluntary association. No one is forced to be Catholic. If Pelosi can’t accept the foundational teachings of the Church, then she should find a church that supports abortion and stop making ridiculous rationalizations about Catholicism. Biden needs something more if he believes human life begins at conception and fails to act to protect it. It’s time for Catholics to demand that politicians who run on their faith begin to act on it as well.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/09/pelosi-gets-taken-to-the-catholic-woodshed/
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September 10, 2008 at 4:13 AM
Ed Morrissey is a little “selective” himself. Perhaps he should study what the Catholic Church historically teaches about the relationship between the Church and the State. (Hint: the RCC should be “the religion of the state to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” etc.)
He also suggests that Pelosi “find a church” when the RCC teaches that there are NO OTHER churches apart from the RCC. This is historically true and Benedict himself has clarified that teaching that there are “other churches” is “absurd.”
The RCC teaches that it is “the only vehicle of salvation” and “the only ark of safety.” Since the RCC has not excommunicated Pelosi (et al) it is disobedient for Morrissey to suggest that she commit a series of “anathemas” by voluntarily leaving.
Morrissey is the one who is being rather “selective” in his Catholicism. I “demand” of him to tell us whether Pius, Gregory, Innocent,Clement and Boniface were wrong when they pontificated on the role of the Church in regard to the State.
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