Posted on 01/09/2017 10:56:05 AM PST by Morgana
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A local pastor is taking heat on social media after posting a video to Facebook that gained more than one million views.
Sunday night, Pastor Lamond Rushing is apologizing to the handicapped woman it offended.
FOX 4's Molly Balkenbush spoke to that woman and the pastor.
That video had more than 11,000 shares before Pastor Lamond removed it from Facebook, after our interview with him.
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A lot, and do emphasis, a lot of Rx drugs cause weight gain as a side affect. Prednisone is a big one, hate it but it's a life saver otherwise.
Could also be her thyroid, who knows. A pastor making fun of her? That is mean and won't help her lose weight.
That is true.
But in my case, it was just food :)
Listen to the woman talk on video she has no teeth! How can she eat? I mean for real? She must just eat baby food and soft squisy food.
I’m sure there was a woman in there somewhere.
Another observation...the woman had a goatee.
http://jlaw.com/Articles/placingstumbling.html
The above links to a commentary on Leviticus 19:14: “You shall not curse the deaf nor place a stumbling block before the blind; you shall fear your God - I am your Lord.”
It clarifies some interesting points about causing others to sin by giving bad advice, mocking their disability, or being a bad example.
The New Testament refers to a “Stumbling Block” as something that causes scandal and may influence new or potential believers to abandon their faith. While not illegal, many behaviors do just that.
With the advent of social media and instant communication, the “laying of stumbling blocks” reaches millions of people before any retraction or apology can happen. it is devastating.
The entire Judeo-Christian culture frowns upon what this “pastor” did.
These “wheelchairs” were not intended to be road-worthy. We have a local guy who takes his chair to 7-11 every so often to buy beer. The chair has to be fully charged or he won’t make it. Luckily there is a bike lane off the road.
My late daughter had Crohn’s Disease and was on prednisone a lot before she died. It got to a point that she only had to look at that med to gain weight. Years before that, her daddy had Hodgkins Disease and was on it. It is a lot harder to get rid of the weight than gaining it.
It could be worse. The pastor could have taken the wheelchair of a disabled woman whose video had broken down.
It’s a heartbreaking sight. Her life looks hard and will likely be short.
Did he torture her? did he cut her scalp? did he say “xxxx” to her? then why is there more outrage over this than over the subhuman feral street savages who brutally attacked an innocent man?
it is very difficult to keep weight off when you end up in a wheel chair. my brother in-law who has always been health conscience and was an Olympic caliber shot-putter and discus thrower hurt him self and had to get around in a wheel chair the guy always active went to a sedentary life style. he had always been big and his way of dealing the fact that he was big was to exercise the weight off he went from being a very muscular athlete to obese in about a years time and eventually had to get medical help to lose the weight. he is still over weight and pushes to being morbidly obese but he is in control and his caloric intake is strictly monitored....When you see some one who is really obese a lot of times there metabolism is totally screwed up...Most thin people would not be able to handle eating as few calories as some of these people try and live on.
Went to doctor when I was younger, fearing Chrohns. I had colitis. That’s NOTHING compared to Crohn’s.
My cousin’s wife has it and the first time I saw her on steroids, I was speechless.
My friend’s brother had part of intestine removed and has been doing ok for a while now.
Wheelchair broke down?
Should have sprung for the The Cougar 9000. It’s the Rolls Royce of wheelchairs. Inductive joystick, dynamic braking, flip-up arms, it’s fully loaded.
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Seriously, that pastor needs some humbling.
Amen. That’s what I’m saying. He should help her. I don’t know how she came to be that way and I don’t care. She sick and Jesus came to heal the sick. That’s all I care about.
I watched the video. Black pastor, seems like nice enough guy, and said he put it up with an “Only in (forgot the town)”
I don’t think he meant ill will and it Certainly is something you don’t see everyday.
We all make bad judgement calls.
It’s pretty much a fact of modern life. If you leave your house, even if just on the front porch, you need to realize someone, somewhere may be taking your picture. The Pastor was guilty of curiosity and poor judgment. I can sort of understand the curiosity; It must have been a bit shocking to see an extremely obese woman in
tight slacks being hauled and toted about as she was. It was a mildly incredible event. He couldn’t make any sense of why this was happening. He wanted proof to show others what he’d seen.
This was poor judgment, because as odd as this may have appeared, we’re still talking about a person. This is not some freak show in the circus. To be honest, I would have stared too, trying to figure out why this was happening. I would have been struggling to keep my eye on the road and stop rubbernecking. I’m not on Facebook, but I would hope I’d
think first before posting this for the world to see and giggle about. The impulse, the temptation to share it would be great. Now, he looks pinheaded and quite foolish indeed. Not the greatest hour of a Christian man.
He’s a so called preacher man who should have known better than 4 hood rats.
Yep.
Remember the old Saturday Night Live sketch/fake commercial for Pre-Chew Charlie's Steak House? Inappropriate but funny!
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