{"id":9410,"date":"2006-12-21T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9410.html"},"modified":"2006-12-21T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T19:08:11","slug":"another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/another-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Another one?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just last month, a gay sex scandal forced Ted Haggard<\/a> to resign from his New Life Church in Colorado. Last week, Paul Barnes<\/a>, founding pastor of the 2,100-member Grace Chapel, also resigned in a gay sex scandal. This week, Christopher Beard<\/a>, a pastor at the exact same megachurch as Haggard, resigned after acknowledging “a one-time sexual encounter he had several years ago, before he was married.”<\/p>\n

And today, another key evangelical pastor at a well-known megachurch is facing yet another sex scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A church whose former pastor was president of the Southern Baptist Convention has been rocked by allegations of child abuse, PageOneQ has learned.<\/p>\n

Pastor Paul Williams, who directs prayer programs and special projects at the Bellevue Baptist Church outside of Memphis, has been forced to take a leave while a church committee investigates charges that Williams sexually molested a family member 17 years ago. Williams has been at Bellevue for 34 years, reports Agape Press, a news service run by the American Family Association.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued by the church and obtained by PageOneQ, the church’s personnel committee says that Williams has taken a paid leave of absence in the wake of “a past, but highly concerning moral failure.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the evangelical community, this is no small matter — Bellevue Baptist Church has more than 27,000 members, and is one of the largest churches<\/a>, of any denomination, in the United States.<\/p>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just last month, a gay sex scandal forced Ted Haggard to resign from his New Life Church in Colorado. Last week, Paul Barnes, founding pastor of the 2,100-member Grace Chapel, also resigned in a gay sex scandal. This week, Christopher Beard, a pastor at the exact same megachurch as Haggard, resigned after acknowledging “a one-time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}