Glass Houses, Stones, and “Pastoring”
January 5, 2006
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
I tried really hard to surpress my schadenfreude over this case, but my dislike of moral busybodies overcame my restraint.
A pastor who has spoken out against homosexuality was arrested after propositioning a male undercover police officer outside a hotel, authorities said.
As the Rev. Lonnie Latham, 59, left jail Wednesday, he said “I was set up. I was in the area pastoring to police.”
Latham, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee, was arrested Tuesday and charged with offering to engage in an act of lewdness, Capt. Jeffrey Becker said.
Hmm…. “pastoring.” So that’s what they’re calling it these days. 
Categories: Random Ramblings
The area that he was ‘pastoring’ in is so notorious a gay hangout that most groups coming in to minister go in pairs. And the Habana Inn (the hotel he was busted outside) is known as the nation’s largest gay bathhouse. The only surprise to me is that they had plainclothes officers outside the Habana Inn busting people – usually police leave the area alone, similar to leaving areas with large populations of African Americans alone, figuring they can kill each other.
And clearly, the undercover officer was pastor-baiting.