Police chaplain jailed on charges of domestic violence

[Gunit_Sangh]

Posted over at Dkos ..

One of my favorite "family values" guys from last year was Bishop Eugene Ward Jr. of Cleveland's Greater Love Missionary Full Gospel Baptist Church, who was so full of the spirit (or something else) to say gay marriage was a bigger threat than bin Laden.

Here's what the Rev. Ward told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer on October 29, 2004:

"If we allow same-sex marriage, it will be the beginning of the fall of the nation," said Bishop Eugene Ward Jr. of Greater Love Missionary Full Gospel Baptist Church. "It's important to the future of humanity."

...

"It's not that I say it's wrong. It's that the Bible says it's wrong," Ward said of same-sex marriage. "I'm a firm believer if we're going to save our society, I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden coming in and attacking Cleveland. But I'm concerned about the enemy that is already within."


It seems Bishop Ward's named appeared in Friday's The Plain Dealer in Cleveland ..

http://www.cleveland.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/iscri/1131111020121470.xml&coll=2

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Bishop Eugene Ward Jr., the 51-year-old pastor of Greater Love Missionary Full Gospel Baptist Church, was charged Wednesday with domestic violence and aggravated menacing.

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Ward declined to comment on the charges, but in a police report he said he was attacked by his wife. He told police his wife started the fight.

<obviously this was all HER fault>

Both told police that during the tussle, her nightgown and panties were ripped off. She said he choked her with the phone cord until she saw white dots and nearly passed out. Officers said her neck was slightly bruised and red. Ward denied choking her. He told police he accidentally knocked her down some stairs.

Naked except for an overcoat, she ran to a neighbor's home. She told police Ward had assaulted her three times in the past 12 months.

[sui generis]

1. I am your enemy reverend

P.S. We've been getting married every day in every state in the country; just not legally.

You can't change that, no matter how much you try to. Civilization hasn't fallen yet; but trying to beat Greater Love into your wife is a great way to ruin your own life.

If I were you I'd start cleaning up your own house - you've got a lot of work to do in your own "marriage" before you start fucking with other peoples' marriage.

You should get out more. Really. There are a lot of us around, and we don't like to be characterized as "the enemy". Some of us are in law enforcement, or sit on the bench, or treat you in the emergency room. Some of us manage your bank accounts, your mortgage, your investments, your utilities, your landscaping, your car repairs, the stores you shop in, the restaurants you eat out at, the EMT that will pull your drunken ass from your wrecked car after your wife serves you your well deserved divorce papers, via a Justice of the Peace who is one of us.

We are everywhere. Be afraid, be very afraid. We WILL get you.

:evilgrin:

P.S. We no longer give out toaster ovens if you were hoping for one. It has come to our attention that enough homophobes are out there inadvertantly converting people to tolerance that we have had to cancel the toaster oven program due to a shortage of supplies.