Today In The USA

Does it seem to you that church sex scandals are losing the intensity they once generated?

As one who remembers the infamous church sex scandals of the 1980’s it seems that today’s versions just don’t compare. Or maybe we have just become hardened to horny preachers getting some “strange”.

The church sex scandal in the news currently is that involving the Paulk family and their megachurch, the Chapel Hill Harvester Church outside Atlanta.

Times have been “hard” for the Paulk family of recent, as various family members have been accused in various sex scandals and even one or two family members have admitted to, well, to getting some strange.

Now it turns out that the current head pastor of the church, D.E. Paulk, will probably need to stop calling Earl Paulk “Uncle Earl” and start calling him “Daddy”. This after court ordered DNA testing revealed that Earl Paulk, rather than his brother Don Paulk, is “Daddy” to 34-year-old D.E. Paulk.

Whoopsy.

Anyhow, you can read it at Sex Scandal Rocks Atlanta-Area Megachurch and wonder about your own Uncle Earl who always seemed to have a special interest in how you were doing…

In keeping with the recent trend of making money by seeing religious figures in all sorts of stuff, Marilyn Smith of Port St. Lucie, Florida has managed to knock down $338 for a pancake which is purported to contain the images of Jesus and Mary.

Reportedly Smith placed the “holy pancake” up for auction on ebay and the bidding started at $35.

Supposedly by the time bidding ended, the flapjack was worth $338.

Wonder how many folks are feverishly working in their kitchen trying to turn out “knock offs”?

Anyhow, read it at Image Of Jesus And Mary Seen In Pancake and forget passing syrup as there’s just something very unappealing about a two-week-old pancake…

BUT WAIT!

Notice the date on that news report, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:47:58 AM

There’s something weird going – check out THIS ebay auction set to end of November 17

It’s the same miracle pancake, sold once according to the news report and still listed for bid on ebay.

While miracles do happen.

This just isn’t one of them…

Dr. Paul A. Schum, 50, the principal at Bethlehem High School, a Catholic school in Bardstown, Kentucky, was busted by Louisville police and in a “seedy part of town” late Tuesday night.

That’s bad enough.

But it’s only the start of Dr. Schum’s misery.

When the cops busted Principal Schum he was allegedly dressed as a woman.

And that’s really bad, but wait…
It get’s worse.

It is alleged that not only was Principal Schum dressed like a women, he was at the time wearing “bondage gear”.

And if that isn’t bad enough, the cops cited Schum for loitering for the purpose of prostitution, seeing as how he was parked in a part of the “seedy part of town” known for prostitution and narcotics and reportedly offered conflicting reasons for why he was sitting in a dark alley, dressed in drag, late at night in a bad part of town.

According to Officer Phil Russell, a spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police Department, “He was wearing an all-black, leather, woman’s outfit, fishnet stockings and women’s black plastic breasts.”

Schum a veteran chemistry teacher of 25 years experience who has a master’s degree in teaching and a doctorate in education has denied the accusation through the Archdiocese of Louisville, which oversees Bethlehem High.

Schum was ticketed and cited into court rather than being arrested is set to appear in court November 27 to answer to the misdemeanor charge.

In the meantime the archdiocese is reportedly conducting its own investigation and Dr. Schum has taken “personal leave”, possibly to contemplate his next fashion statement…

References:

Catholic Principal Cited for Prostitution Charge (11/01/07)

Bardstown principal cited for loitering for prostitution (11/01/07)

Principal allegedly loitered in drag for prostitution (11/01/07)

Catholic school principal asks for leave after police cite him (11/01/07)

Catholic high school principal accused of loitering for prostitution (11/01/07)