It is a sad story but Latham resigned from both his church and the executive committee one day after he was arrested. http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22401 On 1/13/06, Miguel <fbco@...> wrote: > Some may not have heard - but here is a news article for your reading. > > > > http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/5872642/detail.html > > SBC Has No Plans To Remove Pastor > POSTED: 7:08 pm CST January 5, 2006 > UPDATED: 8:28 pm CST January 5, 2006 > > OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Southern Baptist Convention said Thursday it does not > plan to remove a reverend from the convention's executive committee after he > was arrested on charges of offering to engage in an act of lewdness. Rev. > Lonnie Latham, 59, senior pastor at South Tulsa Baptist Church and a member > of the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee, was arrested > Tuesday on an allegation that he propositioned a plainclothes police officer > outside a hotel. He is accused of asking the officer to join him in his > hotel room for oral sex, said police Capt. Jeffrey Becker. "Typically when > there's a moral failure of this sort, there's a voluntary resignation," > Kenyn Cureton, vice president for convention relations, said Thursday. "If > the charges are true, this is tragic news. I hope it's not true. But it > doesn't look good, obviously. Certainly he and his church family are in our > prayers." Latham has supported a convention directive urging members to > befriend gays and lesbians and try to convince them that they can become > heterosexual "if they accept Jesus Christ as their savior and reject their > 'sinful, destructive lifestyle."' When he left Oklahoma County Jail > Wednesday, he said he was pastoring to police when he was arrested and that > he had been "set up." The Nashville, Tenn.-based Southern Baptist Convention > is the nation's largest Protestant denomination. The lewdness charge carries > a penalty of up to one year in jail and a $2,500 fine. > > -- To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: > pastorsforum-unsubscribe@... "In essential > things, unity; in non-essential things, liberty; and in all things, > charity." > > -- Grace and peace, Kevin Sigafoos --------------------- For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. (Rom 11:36)