Anti-gay pastor Ken Hutcherson in hot water - FBI complaint filed over claim he's a 'special envoy'

[Ian David]

by: pam
Wed Mar 21, 2007 at 06:18:58 AM EDT

And he's hopping mad at the White House too, since they are all running for cover, denying Ken Hutcherson's assertion that the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives anointed him "Special Envoy for Adoptions, Family Values, Religious Freedom, and Medical Relief." He used that to go over to Latvia to promote "marriage protection."

Hutch, who stands in the pulpit Antioch Bible Church outside of Seattle, is now the subject of an FBI complaint filed by Dave Coffman, a gay attorney in Seattle, who charges that Hutch has violated a federal law with his claim of agency to speak on behalf of U.S. policy. Eli Sanders, of The Stranger's blog, Slog, which broke this big:

I just spoke with Special Agent Fred Gutt of the Seattle FBI office. He said his office doesn't comment on complaints unless they result in criminal charges. However, he spoke with me about section 912 of the federal criminal code:

"There are various federal laws regarding false impersonations that we do investigate, 912 being one of them," Gutt told me. "That certainly would fall under our purview? This statute, if someone decided to represent themselves as a representative of the White House, could be pertinent."

What is 912? Here you go:

Whoever falsely assumes or pretends to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the United States or any department, agency or officer thereof, and acts as such, or in such pretended character demands or obtains any money, paper, document, or thing of value, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.


More:
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=2483304FB6420FCDB7FF21B7A8FE328E?diaryId=1089

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Couldn't happen to a more deserving theocrat

Pardon the shadenfreude, but...

:rofl: :toast: :woohoo: :applause: :rofl: :toast: :woohoo: :applause: :rofl: :toast: :woohoo: :applause:
:rofl: :toast: :woohoo: :applause: :rofl: :toast: :woohoo: :applause: :rofl: :toast: :woohoo: :applause:
:rofl: :toast: :woohoo: :applause: :rofl: :toast: :woohoo: :applause: :rofl: :toast: :woohoo: :applause:

Oh, and :patriot: for finally finding something that deserves to be investigated.

[peacetalksforall]

2. This President who demands loyalty isn't loyal? Whose is the

main staff person who keeps the religious right happy with WH missionary projects?

[DRoseDARs]

3. I read elsewhere that he had video proof that he did, in fact, receive this special title...

...not that it makes him look any better in all this. :shrug:

[Ian David]

4. And Sun Myung Moon has videotape of himself being crowned The Messiah by the US Senate.

That doesn't make it true.

[mondo joe]

5. Hutcherson and the Bush WH. Hard to decide which is more likely to be lying.

If I had to bet I'd say probably both.