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September 09, 2008
Reverend Wright and the Chuch Lady
Obama's mentor, the Reverend Wright, is making headlines once again...
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.
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.
Well now. What a fine upstanding individual is the adulterous Reverend Wright, just the kind of person anyone would want as personal mentor and spiritual guide, and a teacher to your children of morals and values.
Yep. You gotta question the judgment of any man who could spend 20 years admiring and emulating such a person.
Posted by LindaSoG at September 9, 2008 02:02 PM
Comments
Well, it shows that he actually likes White folks.
Least the horizontal mamba dancin' ones......
A Royal POS.
Hope yer doing well in recovery....
Posted by: Wollf at September 9, 2008 05:32 PM
Slip slidin' away!
Lala kahle[Sleep well]
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
(Chorus)
Imbube
Ingonyama ifile [The lion's in peace]
Ingonyama ilele [The lion sleeps]
Thula [Hush]...........
Some things never change in Africa.
Posted by: Jack at September 9, 2008 08:44 PM
Well! Isn't that special!
Posted by: Jimmy at September 10, 2008 02:05 PM
Just curious...has this been confirmed..... or is it hearsay? Just wondering if the "lady" just wants some media attention.
Posted by: dammitwoman at September 10, 2008 07:00 PM