7 right-wing Christians who got their comeuppance in hilarious ways
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/11/7_right_wing_christians_who_got_their_comeuppance_in_hilarious_ways_partner/
The arc of justice is long, and sometimes it has a wickedly ironic sense of humor. In the case of these seven religious, right-wing pastors, preachers, lawmakers, and lobbyists, the more sanctimonious they are about everybody else’s marriage and sex habits, the more likely they are to wind up disgraced over their own....
7. Jerry Pittman
At least plagiarism charges and schemes to become a bestseller have some ambition to them. The lowest end of this list has to go to Grace Fellowship Church pastor Jerry Pittman of Jackson, Tennessee.
Pittman was already in legal trouble for accusations that he plotted a vicious and violent assault on his son and his son’s boyfriend as they tried to attend his services one day. “My uncle and two other deacons came over to the car per my dad’s request,” Jerry Pittman, Jr. said. “My uncle smashed me in the door as the other deacon knocked my boyfriend back so he couldn’t help me, punching him in his face and his chest. The other deacon came and hit me through my car window in my back.” The young man added that as they were beaten and mocked with homophobic epithets, none of the bystanders offered to help.
But it was something else entirely that finally got Pittman into court, when he was arrested for stealing copper wire from his wife. In another shining example of conservative marriage, Pittman and his wife were separated at the time, but that didn’t stop him from scavenging thousands of dollars worth of copper from her scrap yard.
