Pastor Beaten After Blunt Eulogy - Reverend Calls Deceased 'Drunkard And A Fornicator'

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Pastor Beaten After Blunt Eulogy
Reverend Calls Deceased 'Drunkard And A Fornicator'

POSTED: 10:16 p.m. EDT June 21, 2002

LOXLEY, Ala. -- Authorities in Loxley, Ala., are investigating the alleged beating of a preacher by funeral mourners who didn't like his blunt eulogy.

Glynis Bethel told The Associated Press that her husband -- the Rev. Orlando Bethel -- was attacked during a June 14 funeral and dragged out of the church.

That's because Bethel told mourners the deceased was in Hell and that they were headed the same way.

The dead man was Glynis Bethel's uncle.

Orlando Bethel referred to him as a "drunkard and a fornicator."

Glynis Bethel, who's also a preacher, says "the fornicators didn't like what he said so they got up and beat him."

She says police didn't make any arrests, so she and her husband -- who may have a broken nose -- are taking out warrants.

[philosofy123]

"drunkard and a fornicator."

I don't see anything wrong with that

[najida]

Tacky is the word.
He was being tacky.

[Pilsner]

Elliot attended Sunday School at this church, intermittently. He stole a number of things and once cracked a choir members skull with a collection plate that he was employing as a Frisbee. Personally I hadn't seen him for eighteen years, although I read about him frequently in the newspapers. Believe me, I was appalled. I understand that he was good to his parents insofar as he did not publically announce their identities and place of residence and thus drag their names through the mud with his own. It would be un-Christian for me to say that I'm glad young Elliot is dead. I won't go that far. But it is beyond me purpose he served alive. It's God's problem now. Let's get him out of here and into a cemetery as fast as we can.

P.J. O'Rourke

Modern Manners, Chapter 18, The Hip Funeral

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"drunkard and a fornicator."

I can't think of anything better to do when I'm drunk either.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

This story reminds me of an early Pichard Pryor routine about a funeral.