what a shock: Wright is Wrong!

lockedlocked Boston Posts: 4,039
edited September 2008 in A Moving Train
the chickens have come home to roooooosst Rev. Wrong!:

and with a white woman.. what a hypocrite!

September 9, 2008
Posted: 4:13 am
September 9, 2008

He almost wrecked Barack Obama's presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker's marriage - and her job, The Post has learned.

Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual affair with the controversial, racially divisive man of the cloth while she was an executive assistant at a church headed by a popular Wright protégé.

When word of the unholy alliance got out, Payne's husband dumped her, and she was canned from the plum job at Friendship-West Baptist Church, she told The Post.

"I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that's why I lost my job and why my husband divorced me," Payne said.

She refused to reveal when the adulterous affair started or how she met Wright.

But fellow churchgoers at Friendship-West "found out about the affair in the spring," Payne said.

At the time, she was secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, a longtime Wright disciple.

In April, Payne organized a series of Texas public appearances by Wright, 67. Weeks before, Obama had disavowed his preacher of 20 years after Wright's anti-government rants came to light.

"Liz was by Rev. Wright's side day and night during those days," a church source said.

"It's all true," said Payne, adding that she has filed a wrongful-dismissal claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to get her job back.

In an ironic twist, Wright last night spoke at an East Orange, NJ, church revival on the subject of "unexpected problems."

"There's no such thing as a problem-free relationship," he told a packed Elmwood United Presbyterian Church. "In life, you'll have unexpected problems."

He punctuated his 45-minute sermon with evocative 1960s hits, including the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go," Frankie Beverley's "Joy and Pain," and the Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg." He's set to speak there again tonight.

Payne's husband, Fred Payne, 64, said he learned of the affair in late February, when he discovered e-mails between his wife and Wright.

"There must have been about 80 of them, back and forth," he said. "Wright said things like he was going to leave his wife for Elizabeth."

Wright has been married to his second wife, Ramah, for more than 20 years.

The preacher reportedly wooed Ramah away from her first husband in the 1980s, when the couple came to marriage counseling at Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

After discovering he had been cuckolded, Fred Payne, who had married Elizabeth in October 2006, headed straight for divorce court.

"I was downright mad about this bull- - - -," said Fred, who said he is "in the oil and gas business," belongs to a hunting club and makes his own bullets in his garage.

"People wouldn't be happy to know that my wife was sleeping with a black man."

He added, "Rev. Haynes doesn't like the interracial thing, either. This was quite an issue for him."

Elizabeth Payne said she has been banished by Haynes and the flock at Friendship-West.

"I'm not a member of the congregation anymore; I'm not even allowed on the premises," she said.

Wright became an embarrassment for Obama after videos of the preacher's old sermons emerged.

In them, Wright blamed the United States for the 9/11 attacks and boomed, "God damn America!"

Additional reporting by Austin Fenner

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Comments

  • inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    that's it!! that's it, damn it...

    I'm not going to vote for Rev. Wright in this year's elections...

    Maybe, after some time, I'll be able to forgive him, like the right has forgiven John McCain....
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    What does this have to do with anything?

    And also, saying Rev. Wright wrecked her marriage is the ultimate in passing the buck. She was a willing participant, apparently.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • only the NY Post... lol
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
  • NMyTreeNMyTree Posts: 2,374
    Two " religious " people had an affair......had unapproved and unsanctioned sexual intercourse?

    Say it isn't so!

    I'm shocked:D
  • catch22catch22 Posts: 1,081
    i love steamy sexual affairs :)
    and like that... he's gone.
  • lockedlocked Boston Posts: 4,039
    this coming from the guy who stood on the pulpit and preached about the terrible things white society has done to his people...

    that's all I'm pointing out..
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    locked wrote:
    this coming from the guy who stood on the pulpit and preached about the terrible things white society has done to his people...

    that's all I'm pointing out..

    Engaging in an affair and ruining a marriage pales in comparison to the hundreds of years of slavery.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • mammasan wrote:
    Engaging in an affair and ruining a marriage pales in comparison to the hundreds of years of slavery.
    thats what i kept trying to tell my ex, but she wouldnt go for it!
  • NMyTreeNMyTree Posts: 2,374
    MrSmith wrote:
    thats what i kept trying to tell my ex, but she wouldnt go for it!

    :D:D LMAO!!

    Awesome!
  • catch22catch22 Posts: 1,081
    mammasan wrote:
    Engaging in an affair and ruining a marriage pales in comparison to the hundreds of years of slavery.

    i think the point was that if white people are so evil, why's he nailing a white chick? ;)
    and like that... he's gone.
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    MrSmith wrote:
    thats what i kept trying to tell my ex, but she wouldnt go for it!

    What a racist bitch :)
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    catch22 wrote:
    i think the point was that if white people are so evil, why's he nailing a white chick? ;)

    Reparations.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • catch22catch22 Posts: 1,081
    mammasan wrote:
    Reparations.

    :D
    and like that... he's gone.
  • locked wrote:
    this coming from the guy who stood on the pulpit and preached about the terrible things white society has done to his people...

    that's all I'm pointing out..
    Why can't he preach about the oppression of black folks?

    Dumbest thread ever. I knew some "intellectual" would try to bring Wright back into the dialogue. Pathetic doesn't begin to describe this spectacle.
  • lockedlocked Boston Posts: 4,039
    catch22 wrote:
    i think the point was that if white people are so evil, why's he nailing a white chick? ;)

    eg-sact-ly!!!!!
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • lockedlocked Boston Posts: 4,039
    he is a married man...pontificating about all the evils of white america ... meanwhile he is nail-ing a married white chick!

    hy-po-crite!
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • The man is still right on about AIDS though.

    :cool:
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
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