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[Pastor] Frederick D. Haynes [running for Congress] wired $2K to woman who mailed him topless photo: lawsuit
Christian Post ^ | 10/09/2026 | Jon Brown

Posted on 10/09/2026 6:39:02 PM PDT by simpson96

Pastor Frederick D. Haynes III, who leads the 13,000-member Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas and is running for Congress, was accused in a 2009 lawsuit of sending $2,000 to a woman who allegedly mailed him a topless photo.

Haynes is the pastor of Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, and has her endorsement to succeed her in Texas' deep-blue 30th Congressional District. His former executive assistant, Elizabeth Payne, claimed he told her to wire the money to a female "mentee" named Lisa Harrod for travel expenses, The Washington Free Beacon reports.

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Payne claimed in the lawsuit that she was fired in August 2008 after Haynes learned she was having an affair with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Wright, a United Church of Christ pastor, is known as the spiritual mentor of former President Barack Obama, and Haynes has called him an "adopted father."

In his deposition, Haynes neither confirmed nor denied having an affair with Harrod but said he never saw the card with the topless photo. He described himself as her "spiritual mentor" and acknowledged meeting her for lunch in Miami in 2008.


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1 posted on 10/09/2026 6:39:03 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

An Ankh instead of a cross in what I presume is the pastors UCC church. Why am I not surprised?


2 posted on 10/09/2026 6:44:36 PM PDT by jimtorr
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2000 dollars for a topless photo seems a tad much when you can endless topless photos for free.
He is bad with his money, I wouldn’t vote for him.


3 posted on 10/09/2026 6:50:50 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: simpson96
learned she was having an affair with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Wright... known as the spiritual mentor of former President Barack Obama...

My gracious. A respected man of the cloth. A distinguished religious leader. A spiritual mentor of our greatest and most beloved President. The man who said "not to say God bless America but I say God d#@n America" as Barack and Michelle leaned back, their faces pointed upward as gales of laughter overtook them in the pew. /S

4 posted on 10/09/2026 6:51:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: simpson96

LOL!

Hope Haynes didn’t get any “spiritual mentoring” all over her, like “Rapin’ Bill” Clinton’s “presidue”...


5 posted on 10/09/2026 6:52:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (I give up with this crew of trolls)
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To: simpson96

I’ma gonna need some documentation


6 posted on 10/09/2026 6:53:41 PM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: simpson96
a woman who allegedly mailed him a topless photo.

He attached a handwritten note to the money he sent her: "May this be a start of the money you should devote to implants. Soon."

7 posted on 10/09/2026 6:54:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: escapefromboston

It’s not his money. It’s free money from the church. It doesn’t matter what it costs.


8 posted on 10/09/2026 6:54:28 PM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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Are you from Missouri, the Show Me State?


9 posted on 10/09/2026 6:57:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: simpson96

The female ambassador?


10 posted on 10/09/2026 6:59:04 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: simpson96

An ankh.


11 posted on 10/09/2026 7:06:58 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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She said those photos were to be sold as a Set.
One photo = 50% of the “Display”.
So, even at $2000. for ‘services rendered’, he only purchased one half of the “Set”.
“She said: I explained it to him over and over!”

(SARC) ///


12 posted on 10/09/2026 7:19:42 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: simpson96

They had porn on the internet in 2009 too

And it didn’t cost $2000


13 posted on 10/09/2026 7:35:42 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: jimtorr
An Ankh instead of a cross in what I presume is the pastors UCC church. Why am I not surprised?

Well, he IS in the Sanctuary. (Logan's Run reference)
14 posted on 10/09/2026 7:38:48 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: jimtorr

The LAST “C” in UCC should NOT BE THERE!!! They seem NOT TO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST!


15 posted on 10/09/2026 8:10:23 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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