[Vision2020] Oklahoma Pastor Arrested on Lewdness Charge

[Tom Hansen]

>From Newsday.com at
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-pastor-arrested,0
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Oklahoma Pastor Arrested on Lewdness Charge

   

By Associated Press

 

January 4, 2006, 11:14 PM EST

 

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A pastor who has spoken out against homosexuality was
arrested after propositioning a male undercover police officer outside a
hotel, authorities said. 

 

As the Rev. Lonnie Latham, 59, left jail Wednesday, he said "I was set up. I
was in the area pastoring to police." 

 

Latham, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee,
was arrested Tuesday and charged with offering to engage in an act of
lewdness, Capt. Jeffrey Becker said. 

 

Calls to Latham and his South Tulsa Baptist Church were not returned for
comment. 

 

Latham has supported a convention directive urging members to befriend gays
and lesbians and try to convince them that they can become heterosexual "if
they accept Jesus Christ as their savior and reject their 'sinful,
destructive lifestyle.'" 

 

The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant
denomination. Messages left for the convention were not returned.

 

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Take care, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

 

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"

 

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