Tulsa pastor arrested on lewdness charge

This Just Prove my point. That the biggest homophobes are gay themselves or have gay tendencies.


Tulsa pastor arrested on lewdness charge
January 05, 2006

An executive committee member of the Southern Baptist Convention was
arrested on a lewdness charge for propositioning a plainclothes policeman outside a
hotel in Tulsa, Okla., police said.

Lonnie Latham, senior pastor at South Tulsa Baptist Church, was booked into
Oklahoma County Jail Tuesday night on a misdemeanors charge of offering to
engage in an act of lewdness, police captain Jeffrey Becker said. Latham was
released on $500 bail Wednesday afternoon.

Latham, who has spoken out against homosexuality, asked the officer to join
him in his hotel room for oral sex. Latham was arrested, and his 2005
Mercedes automobile was impounded, Becker said. Calls to Latham at his church were
not immediately returned Wednesday.

The arrest took place in the parking lot of the Habana Inn, which is in an
area where the public has complained about male prostitutes flagging down
cars, Becker said. The plainclothes officers was investigating these complaints.
The lewdness charge carries a penalty of up to one year in jail and a $2,500
fine.

Latham is one of four Southern Baptist Convention executive committee
members from Oklahoma. He spoke out last year against a measure, ultimately
approved by voters, to expand tribal gaming. He has also spoken out against same-sex
marriage and in support of a Southern Baptist Convention directive urging
its 42,000 churches 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. (AP)