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A preacher who went to prison for stealing millions of dollars from the National Baptist Convention U.S.A will learn Thursday whether members think he deserves a chance to once again lead the denomination.
An unsuccessful last-minute effort by the Rev. Henry J. Lyons to get a court to derail the election underscores the long-shot nature of his bid to regain the presidency of the nation’s largest and oldest predominantly black denomination.
How many people can’t get jobs because of petty (compared to this man’s) crimes committed at a young immature age, and this guy has the gall to try to regain the very position that enabled him to commit this felony? Ponderous
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So this is the Christian morality that we all supposedly can’t do without. A guy in a position of almost total trust rips off his followers for millions, and because of the bizarre, irrational doctrine of forgiveness, the very people he ripped off feel compelled to consider putting him right back in the same position. Also, Lyons is a man who has obviously been steeped in Baptist training all his life. One look at the quality of his moral character will tell you how far we should listen to churches when they tell us we should look to them for moral teaching.
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