Pastor Commits Suicide

Please read this tragic story of another pastor who was having a homosexual affair before he killed himself after finding out the local Pittsburgh TV news was going to out him.

What's the fascination with catching pastors being hypocrites? Does it make us feel better about our own hypocritical behavior? With everything else going on in the world is a local pastor's life of shame news worthy? I can understand letting the elders or presbytery know, but the KDKA-TV news?

His "lover" is someone looking for attention, not someone who truly cares about the guy's church or family and the same is true for the TV station. They're both sick.

Also, what is with unqualified pastors being pastors in the first place. Don't get me wrong, while I think suicide is self-centered and prideful, I feel sorry for a guy who'd rather kill himself than face his family, church and presbytery.

But think about it. You've just been outed as a hypocrite on local TV, drug your name, your family and your church through the mud, totally discrediting the ministry and giving people yet another reason to reject Christianity, and on top of that, you've willfully sinned against God so you kill yourself. After all that, is there no fear of God? Rather than face the temporal consequences he kills himself so he can face God after Romans 1, 1 Timothy 3, Titus 1 and James 3:1 have meant nothing to him.

Thankfully, the Cross covers homosexual hypocrisy and the gospel brings forgiveness to the one suffering under the weight of that guilt. Jesus died so save sinners, even pastors who are proven hypocrites, from the guilt and penalty for their sins. I hope his family and the church are hearing a lot about the healing found in the gospel.