Posted on 07/06/2012 6:04:44 PM PDT by Gamecock
A woman is accused of using God's word as a weapon against her pastor in their Mid-South church.
A 63-year-old church member used a Bible to hit the pastor in the head after he told her and other members to leave or he would call the Sheriff.
"He's got the demon in him," Ina Garrett said.
Ina Garrett, a life-long member of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Selmer, decided to knock that demon out of pastor Leon Taylor.
"One of the older church members came up and struck the pastor with a Bible," McNairy County Sheriff Guy Buck said.
"I hit him in the head," Garrett admitted.
The sheriff arrested 63-year-old Ina Garrett and charged her with assault.
The pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church showed us a photo of welts on the side of his head.
"Evil is evil," Pastor Leon Taylor said. "You understand what I'm saying, and bullying is bullying and that's what they have done."
There is a rift among church members at Mount Zion. The members chose Pastor Taylor to lead the church a year ago.
Deacon Robert Shumpert, Ina Garrett and other members say they decided they did not like Taylor and wanted him out of the 30 member church. The pastor says the church members who wanted him out were disruptive.
"The next Sunday we went right back and the door was locked," church member Ann Prather said.
Taylor showed us video of him telling the church he is tired of it, as Ina Garrett yells from the church.
"Would you leave, would you leave? Would you leave! Call the Sheriff, call the sheriff! You're trying to put us out. You're out. What is it about out you don't understand?" she yelled.
Sheriff Buck showed up and tried to talk with the unhappy church members. And sometime after that Buck says Ina Garrett hit the pastor with the Bible. The sheriff escorted the disruptive members out and arrested Garrett.
"Have you ever heard of anything like that before? I have never in my life," Sheriff Buck said.
The unhappy church members, some who have been members for 65 years, will likely have to take the pastor to court. He says he is not planning to leave. We'll keep you updated on what happens.
Don't know how long you been there Leon, but you sound more like one o'them carpetbaggin' yankee liberals than a Mt Zion Baptist preacher.
You probably deserved the smack that seasoned saint done ya.
Pastor must have been preaching particular redemption.
Well, hmmm....
Sometimes I’d like to hit the pastor with a bible. But I’m Methodist. He’s got it coming.
That’s why we respect our priests and call them “Father.”
This wouldn’t ever happen in a Catholic Church. The Knights of Columbus would escort anyone out of the church who even tried to get close to the sanctuary.
I’ve had priests that I would’ve liked to thump over the head with the good book, including one in particular who stated during his sermon that he is a “die-hard democrat.”
May that's part of the problem with what's going on in the Roman Catholic Church!
“The heathen often exclaimed in wonder, ‘See how
these Christians love each other.” - Tertullian
Selmer has become a dangerous place for preachers. That church isn’t much more than a mile from where Mary Winkler shot and killed her husband, the Church of Christ preacher at 4th Street Church of Christ.
Any pastor who is a big enough jerk to cause this type of reaction from his congregation shouldn’t be one.
Any pastor who is a big enough jerk to cause this type of reaction from his congregation shouldn’t be one.
Perhaps talking to him and educating him about the democratic party and how abortion is one of the planks of their platform.
But not acting in anger and hitting a priest or a minister with an object.
The anger is part of the Commandment — “Thou shalt not kill.”
If they hired him, they can fire him.
Take a vote and settle it. No need to resort to violence in church.
“This wouldn’t ever happen in a Catholic Church.”
Couldn’t possibly. Nothing bad has ever happened in the Roman Catholic Church /s
I've long since moved on to a different parish, one that offers the Tridentine mass which I greatly prefer. The trid mass definitely attracts more conservatives.
Source for your judgment — 2000 plus years of Catholic history to choose from?
Of course not; hardly any Catholics take bibles to church. ;-)
But we have the readings in a missalette that would do similar if not more damage, because the jackets are made of cardboard covered with plastic.
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