Posted on 04/27/2026 3:39:59 AM PDT by DFG
A Florida pastor who wrote an advice book on how to love your spouse was arrested this week for allegedly having multiple wives.
Leslie Williams, 62, was arrested Wednesday on an outstanding warrant for bigamy near his house in rumored swingers’ paradise, The Villages retirement community, according to the Sumter County Sheriff Department and the Villages News.
The pastor, who runs his own ministry out of the sprawling 55+ community, is wanted in Georgia after the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department there issued a warrant for his arrest on bigamy charges on April 3.
Williams was nabbed by Sumter County sheriff deputies and is being held without bond at the Sumter County Detention Center, while awaiting extradition to Georgia.
While details of Williams’ first marriage remain unclear, he shared on Facebook in December that he got married to a woman named Cindi in a post that garnered a plethora of comments congratulating the bride and groom.
“Wow I thought you were already married. Congratulations!!” one comment on the post said.
“Love is in the air! Mr. and Mrs. Williams!” said another.
Days later, the pastor praised his new wife in another post and said, “Thanks for all the wonderful comments referencing my saved, beautiful and talented wife, Mrs. Williams! She’s saved for real, praise God!!!”
Williams also posted a selfie that same week which received a comment saying he looks “like a different man.”
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now the big dummy has multiple mothers in law. Not worth the trade off.
Oh look.
Another creepy Pastor.
I’m shocked.
Not.
Just doing research for his book, no doubt.
doesn’t look like he was with two different women at the same time.
looks like he neglected to get a divorce from fife number 1 before marrying wife number 2.
With what the courts can do to men these days, I am not sure I blame him.
Say it isn’t so, Yogi.
EC
And if you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with.
‘Harcour Fenton Mudd!”
““No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.”
Matthew 6:24
Finally! 😂 👍
It's not a matter of degree (or duration).
Whether you wait only five minutes before marrying your second wife (before first getting divorced your first wife), or you wait five years - it's still bigamy.
And it's not like you can use the excuse that you "forgot" that you were still married.
Regards,
what’s all the fuss?
he’s just ‘performing” research for his book
😂
More like involuntary committment to a mental instuition.
Sounds like he has plenty of love to go around.
After thinking about the legal issues, aren’t bigamy laws illegal after Obergefell? The Supreme Court threw out morality based state laws on who can wed.
Yowsah “love the one you’re with” goes the tune
doesn’t look like he was with two different women at the same time. looks like he neglected to get a divorce from fife [sic] number 1 before marrying wife number 2.
It’s not a matter of degree (or duration).
Whether you wait only five minutes before marrying your second wife (before first getting divorced your first wife), or you wait five years - it’s still bigamy.
And it’s not like you can use the excuse that you “forgot” that you were still married.
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I didn’t say it wasn’t bigamy, i said it was not concurrent relationships.
Do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do
Do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do
Do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do
Do-do-do, do-do-do
Change of title: “How to love your wife... and your conqubines”
Haha! Those wild and wacky “Village People” are at it again!
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