That man drove me nuts. Apparently he was the assistant pastor of the church John attends. Rev. Smiley is the senior pastor of the church the Wilbanks family attends. I know nothing of the two churches, but I wouldn't want the earlier pastor representing my church publicly.
Apparently, the family didn't want him either, in that I got the impression that when he appeared before the national news cameras, he was doing it at his own initiative, not at the request of the family.