Slacktivist: Oklahoma preacher arrested with racist prostitute in massage parlor bust

[muriel_volestrangler]

Walter Eugene Brazington, Jr., an “apostle and prophet” for the All Nations Evangelistic Team, is charged in Tulsa County with attempting to “encourage, induce or persuade women to become inmates of a house of prostitution.”

The 55-year-old preacher used the same phone number for his ministry and to recruit women for the house of prostitution he operated under the guise of a massage parlor in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, police in that community disclosed.

Following an undercover investigation, police arrested Brazington late last month, identifying him as the “operator” of the massage parlor, one of several he has owned in recent years. Tiffany Ann Roach, 40, who worked at the establishment, also was arrested.

Her Facebook page includes images related to white supremacy, including “White Girl Pride” and references to “88” — code for Heil Hitler.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/12/08/oklahoma-preacher-arrested-racist-prostitute-massage-parlor-bust

Thus we describe him as a preacher and an alleged pimp, even if the details of the story make it easier for us to think of him as a pimp and, therefore, only an alleged preacher. That, at least, is how we Christians are inclined to think of him — how we want to think of him. Surely if he was spending half of his double-life running massage parlors as fronts for prostitution, then he can’t have been in any way sincere in the other half of his life where he worked as a revival preacher, Pentecostal “prophet,” and “Bible prophecy” evangelist. It’s certainly more comfortable for us to assume that — to think he is only an alleged preacher who was, in reality, nothing more than a cynical, Gantry-esque grifter.

And that’s entirely possible. It may very well be that Brazington developed a fluent mastery of white evangelical language and culture for no reason other than to prey on believers for financial gain. It may very well be that his “All Nations Evangelistic Team” was nothing more than a counterfeit imitation of the tens of thousands of similar white evangelical “ministries” it emulated.

But there’s a sense in which that doesn’t matter. If it is a counterfeit, it’s a nearly perfect counterfeit — one otherwise indistinguishable from the thing it pretends to be. If he’s a fraud, then he’s a fraud whose genuine customers went away genuinely satisfied. (The customers of his All Nations Evangelistic Team revivals, I mean, I can’t speak to the relative satisfaction of his other set of customers.)
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Yeah, it’s true that the vast majority of Brazington’s fellow white evangelical ministers and ministries would unambiguously condemn operating or patronizing a massage parlor/brothel. They would consider that an unacceptable sin — precisely the sort of obvious and intolerable sin that the white supremacy of Ms. Roach is never regarded as. Just like Brazington, they’re perfectly comfortable allying themselves with white supremacists in service of some larger purpose. Their Christian nationalism is wholly compatible with her white nationalism, and doesn’t skip a beat when encountering her white supremacist views.

Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2017/12/11/broken-arrows/#qUIiIkzuqMTWGTsU.99

And Fred Clark then takes it home, explaining how this is his post about Roy Moore. And Donald Trump.

[Lordquinton]

1. The second article is good

Dispels the No True Scotsman fallacy.

Plus

"It may very well be that Brazington developed a fluent mastery of white evangelical language and culture for no reason other than to prey on believers for financial gain."

How does that make him different from other preachers?