A US pastor who said Facebook was a "portal to infidelity" and told married church leaders to delete their accounts or resign once testified that he had a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant.
The Reverend Cedric Miller confirmed a report by the Asbury Park Press of Neptune, a newspaper in New Jersey, which cited testimony he gave in a criminal case in 2003.
The relationship had ended by that time.
Miller gained attention across the US when he issued the Facebook edict this week. He said it came about because much of the marital counselling he has performed over the past year-and-a-half concerned infidelity stemming from the social-networking website.
The 48-year-old leader of Living Word Christian Fellowship Church in Neptune Township, New Jersey, had claimed Facebook ignites old passions, and he ordered about 50 married church officials to delete their accounts with the social networking site or resign from their leadership positions.
Miller had previously asked married congregants to share their login information with their spouses - as he does - and now plans to suggest that they give up Facebook altogether. The minister also said he would leave the site this week.
In court testimony he gave in April 2003, Miller said his wife had an extramarital affair with the church assistant. Miller said he participated in many of the sexual encounters and said the assistant's wife was sometimes present, too.
Miller said the dalliances - which occurred in the Millers' home - sometimes took place during Thursday Bible study meetings and Sundays after church. But the minister said the encounters "came to a crashing halt" when several women in the church accused the assistant of having sex with them.
The testimony was given in connection with a criminal case against the assistant that was eventually dismissed. The names of the church assistant and his wife were not disclosed, and Miller told the newspaper that he was concerned that revisiting the incident would "irreparably" hurt some people.
"It has come to my attention that a very painful part of my past has resurfaced," Miller wrote in an email sent on Friday.
Noting that his court testimony was mailed to his church leaders and other pastors several years ago, Miller said: "This was resolved at that time and accordingly we will not allow it to detract from our mission at hand to save as many marriages as we can."
Miller said people must look at his Facebook directives in the proper context.
"My life as a minister, husband, father and friend has led me to the conviction that I must do all that I can to help as many people strengthen, preserve and repair the often times fragile cords of marriage," Miller wrote.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/pastor-fail ... 182vg.html
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: Another one bites the dust
Oh sure, after you have had the three-somes and four-somes the rest of us souldn't have that "experience"."My life as a minister, husband, father and friend has led me to the conviction that I must do all that I can to help as many people strengthen, preserve and repair the often times fragile cords of marriage," Miller wrote.
You know what, these people should just keep their mouths shut and leave the rest of the us alone.
Re: Another one bites the dust
Oh I'm so glad he had the experience for me, I wouldn't want a threesome.
Oh hang about, a threesome with two women wouldn't be so bad would it...
Oh hang about, a threesome with two women wouldn't be so bad would it...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”