It seems that some very serious fireworks are jumping of in the Church
Of God In Christ Washington D.C. Jurisdiction. According to the letter
below a very ugly lawsuit is in the works and a physical fight that
resulted in Ricky Payton, Jr. Getting arrested.
Allegedly, it has been a great deal of tension between his father,
Ricky Payton, Sr., who was the Musical Director at New Bethel Church Of
God In Christ and the State Minister of Music for the Washington D.C.
Jurisdiction every since it was time for his father to sign his new
contract as the musical director for New Bethel. In the new contact it
was stipulated for the church to operate under terms that were not
mutually agreed upon. Payton Sr. refused to sign on the dotted line,
and the dissagreement with him and the bishop was on from that point.
It became very diffcult for Ricky Sr to continue his work at the
chuch and eventually quit. Also Bishop Coles sent a e-mail that all
music duties would be overseen by another person, telling the present
Minister of Music his services were no longer needed via email. The
mother of Ricky Sr passed, who was a member of New Bethel the church
Bishop Coles aquired after becoming the new bishop after Bishop Howard
passed. It was a great deal of discussion if the funeral would happen
at New Bethel, but eventually did even if it was aganist Bishop Coles
wishes.
Bishop Coles took issue with Ricky Jr giving any instructions to his
new staff and was offended when he entered the sound booth and wanted
him to leave. However Ricky agreed to leave after he played an audio
tribute of his grandmother singing “Happy Birthday” to herself .
Interesting how Mrs.Payton funeral landed on her birthday. Bishop Coles
son then approached him during the recessional and asked Ricky Jr to
keep it moving, then pushed him and Ricky Jr dropped his son and tussled
with Kevin, Bishop Coles son. Then Ricky Jr moved him out of his way
like you would pick up a piece of furniture that resulted in him getting
charges pressed against him. Due to keep an altercation from
happening, Ricky Jr was taken away from the church by family members and
missed the graveside services for his beloved grandmother. Bishop
Coles was unaware that Ricky had been taken away and came running out of
the church jerking off his ministeral collar and suit jacket looking
for Ricky Jr in a manner that was clear he wanted to fight.
Due to Kevin Coles being an attorney and afraid that Ricky Jr was
going to come back to do something as a result of the altercation at his
grandmother’s funeral, he filed for a restraining order to make sure
Ricky Jr could not come back to the church or near him or his father,
Bishop Coles. Ricky Jr. was leaving the courthouse for the hearing about
the restraining order, Kevin walked up to him with a police officer and
said “This man has assaulted me!!”. Ricky Jr was arrested due to the
warrant Kevin had taken out for his arrest that Ricky Jr was unaware of
at all.
“This situation has not even allowed me or my family the proper time
to deal with the death of my grandmother.” Ricky Jr. said. ”This is all
spiritual warfare! “I know exactly what to do to win this battle.”
It seems that Bishop Coles is low down to behave in such manner at a
woman’s funeral that was a member of the church of 40 years that he is
the new pastor of even if by defalt.
Also Bishop Cole allegedly totally disrupted the funeral, turned off
the air, passing out cook out flyers during the funeral. Read all about
it in Dr. Leonard Lovett’s letter to Bishop Neavell Anthony Coles below:
Have you seen this letter? I just received this today. I will call you later today. Got to make a run.
August 3, 2012
Bishop Neavelle Anthony. Coles
6440 Piney Branch Road, NW
Washington, DC 20012
Dear Bishop Coles:
I am writing you as a brother in Christ first and as Ecumenical
Officer of the Church of God in Christ committed to the task of
promoting unity within the Body of Christ. There can never be real unity
and a lasting peace without justice. Any such peace is a false peace. I
am guided by the ancient word of Scripture in Roman 14: 19 [KJV] “Let
us seek after those things that make for peace, and things wherewith one
may edify another.” [LAB] “In this way aim for harmony in the church
and try to build each other up.” Be forewarned, this is a word of “tough
love.” I am deeply disappointed, burdened and disturbed by your
egregious behavior for quite sometime as leader of the Washington D.C.
Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ. Several of us have
expressed our concern through an active case before the Board of Bishops
of the Church of God in Christ to which we have pledged due diligence
and eternal vigilance. I am writing because I have made a vow to God
that I will refuse to be silent anymore in the face of blatant evil in
the church whether it be personal or institutional.
For several years you have had the unmitigated gall to stand before
the Jurisdiction and repeatedly state that you will lead by the Bible
and the Constitution of the Church of God in Christ. None of us
regardless to our titles and status are exempt from critique. Sometimes
it takes one major crisis to fully expose and unmask who we really are
from the inside out. In Proverbs 20: 28ff [KJV] “The spirit of man is
the candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly.”
[LAB] “A man’s conscience is the Lord’s search light exposing his inner
motives If a king is kind, honest and fair, his kingdom stands secure.”
Allow me to paraphrase…If a (Bishop) is kind, honest and fair, his
(jurisdiction) stands secure.
The ancient writ further admonishes us that “Pride goeth before
destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 16: 18v.
Bishop Coles when anyone misuses the Scripture, they appear to be
breaking God’s law. In reality they will inevitably be broken by God’s
law. I am disturbed when you as a reputed leader within the COGIC abuses
your authority to intimidate and threaten God’s people for selfish
reasons. Bishop Cole, please understand I am not the least bit
intimidated by you. How insensitive and indifferent can you be to sit in
a funeral service and incite an incident with the grandson of the
deceased? Your lack of judgment resulted in an embarrassing altercation
as the family processed based on several eyewitness accounts? (During
the final rites of Dr. Ricky Payton’s mother, Bishop Cole requested that
his son Kevin go up to the broadcast booth and request that Ricky
Payton Jr. leave the area. Ricky was there to play a tape of his
grandmothers voice singing on her birthday…all a part of the printed
program.)
Bishop Coles, your attempt to block a hearse proceeding to the
cemetery was not only disrespectful toward the family but despicable
toward the saints. We are not only concerned but ashamed of your
behavior as a leader. We are also concerned about your son Kevin’s
behavior on Friday July 27, 2012 at the entrance of the Washington DC
Superior courtyard. Less than one hour after the judge had admonished
the three parties named in the law suit [Bishop Cole, his son Kevin and
Ricky Payton Jr.] to negotiate, Kevin Cole used his legal knowledge to
take advantage of Ricky Jr. by instructing the police to arrest him for
having assaulted him under a second citing rule.
Bishop Cole, were you as biblically literate as you portray you would
have at least been aware of I Corinthians 6: 1 – 7verse (LAB)
admonishing Christians not to use the civil courts to settle adverse
issues between them.
“How is it when you have something against another Christian you “go
to law.” And ask a heathen court to decide the matter instead of taking
it to other Christians to decide which of you is right? 2v – Don’t you
know that someday we Christians are going to judge and govern the world?
So why can’t you decide these little things among yourselves? 3v.-
Don’t you realize that we Christians will judge and reward the very
angels in heaven? So you should be able to decide your problems down
here on earth easily enough. 4v.- Why then go to outside judges who are
not even Christians. 5v.- I am trying to make you ashamed. Isn’t there
anyone in all the church who is wise enough to decide these arguments.
6v.- But, instead, one Christian sue another and accuses his Christian
brother in front of unbelievers. 7v.- To have such lawsuits at all is a
real defeat for you as Christians Why not just accept mistreatment and
leave it at that?” It would be far more honoring to the Lord to let
yourselves be cheated.”
Bishop Coles, you may win the law suit but you have lost the
confidence of many people in the jurisdiction because you have
undermined your ability to lead by your callous behavior and poor
judgment. This could have been an opportunity to have an open meeting
and openly discuss differences. At this stage of your journey you should
be leading as a father in the faith. You should be a reconciler rather
than a divider. You should be healing rather than wounding. Galatians
6:7 strongly admonishes us to “Be not deceived God is not marked
.Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.” [JB Phillips
translates this verse to “Don’t be under any illusion, you cannot make a
fool of God.”
When you were appointed Bishop in 2004, I offered my personal
assistance to you, to this day you have never sought advice. However, I
am not offended by your arrogance. There is safety in a multitude of
counsel. When will you get rid of your foolish pride and false humility.
The word of Scripture admonishes us that “judgment must begin at the
House of God.” I believe that time has come.
Sincerely for the Cause of the Kingdom,
Dr. Leonard Lovett,
Ecumenical Officer, COGIC
Office of Ecumenical Relations
107 S. West Street Ste. 422 Alexandria, Va. 22314
Ricky Payton, Jr./Music Producer
Wow! What a shocker, but this is developing…
OBAMA TOOK OUR RIGHTS TO LOVE JESUS
Pentagon Taps Anti-Christian Extremist for Religious Tolerance Policy
“Today, we face incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist
Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their
weaponized and twisted version of Christianity upon their helpless
subordinates in our nation’s armed forces.”
Those words were recently written by Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF),
in a column he wrote
for the Huffington Post. Weinstein will be a consultant to the Pentagon
to develop new policies on religious tolerance, including a policy for
court-martialing military chaplains who share the Christian Gospel
during spiritual counseling of American troops.
Weinstein decries what he calls the “virulent religious oppression”
perpetrated by conservative Christians, whom he refers to as
“monstrosities” and “pitiable unconstitutional carpetbaggers,” comparing
them to “bigots” in the Deep South during the civil rights era.
He cites Dr. James Dobson—the famous Christian founder of Focus on
the Family—as “illustrating the extremist, militant nature of these
virulently homophobic organizations’ rhetorically-charged propaganda.”
Regarding those who teach orthodox Christian beliefs from the Bible,
Weinstein concludes, “Let’s call these ignoble actions what they are:
the senseless and cowardly squallings of human monsters.”
Weinstein then endorses the ultra-left Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC), who publishes a list of “hate groups.” Alongside truly
deplorable organizations like the KKK, the SPLC’s list includes a host
of traditional Christian organizations (for their support of traditional
marriage) and Tea Party organizations (for supporting limited
government). Weinstein says SPLC correctly labels them all as “hate
groups.”
Floyd Lee Corkins—the first person ever convicted of domestic terrorism in federal court under the laws of Washington, D.C.—
told the FBI
that he chose his intended shooting spree targets from the SPLC
website's map. Corkins was arrested at the offices of the Family
Research Council (FRC) after shooting a security guard in August 2012.
His court documents state that Corkins
intended to kill as many people as possible.
Weinstein also supports Lt. Col. Jack Rich, the Army officer who
wrote to subordinate officers that soldiers who hold traditional
Christian beliefs agreeing with organizations on SPLC’s “hate group”
list
are incompatible with “Army values" and should be carefully watched and excluded from military service.
According to Weinstein, “We should as a nation effusively applaud Lt.
Col. Rich.” He adds that the nation should “venture further” than
Rich’s recommendations, saying, “We MUST vigorously support the
continuing efforts to expose pathologically anti-gay, Islamaphobic, and
rabidly intolerant agitators for what they are: die-hard enemies of the
United States Constitution. Monsters, one and all. To do anything less
would be to roll out a red carpet to those who would usher in a
blood-drenched, draconian era of persecutions, nationalistic militarism,
and superstitious theocracy.”
Many media outlets are silent on this disturbing new alliance between
fanatical secularists and leaders in the Pentagon appointed by
President Barack Obama and Secretary Chuck Hagel, under which the U.S.
military would officially consult with someone with such
foaming-at-the-mouth passionate hostility toward traditional Christians,
including Evangelicals and devout Catholics. The military—America’s
most heroic and noble institution—includes countless people of faith,
and this represents a radical departure from the U.S. military’s warm
embrace of people of faith in its ranks.
Yet the little coverage this story is getting is positive, such as
this Washington Post column
that somehow manages not to carry any of these frightening quotes from
Weinstein and instead actually endorses the Pentagon’s meeting with him.
Sally Quinn’s
Post column also approvingly quotes MRFF
Advisory Board member Larry Wilkerson as saying, “Sexual assault and
proselytizing, according to Wilkerson, ‘are absolutely destructive of
the bonds that keep soldiers together.’”
Did you get that? They say having someone share the Christian gospel
with you is akin to being raped. Weinstein makes sure there are no
doubts, being quoted by the
Post as adding, “This is a national
security threat. What is happening [aside from sexual assault] is
spiritual rape. And what the Pentagon needs is to understand is that it
is sedition and treason. It should be punished.”
Another MRFF Advisory Board member, Ambassador Joe Wilson (the
far-left husband of CIA employee Valerie Plame from the Iraq War’s
yellow-cake uranium scandal a decade ago), said a military chaplain “is
to minister to spiritual needs. You don’t proselytize. It’s a workplace
violation.”
In other words, it should be the official policy of the United States
to decree what a human being’s spiritual needs are, and punish for
violations a military officer who is
an ordained clergyman who attempts to share his own personal faith with another service member
when discussing religious matters. You cannot imagine such a thing ever happening under any previous president.
Weinstein goes on:
If these fundamentalist Christian monsters of human degradation … and
tyranny cannot broker or barter your acceptance of their putrid
theology, then they crave for your universal silence in the face of
their rapacious reign of theocratic terror. Indeed, they ceaselessly
lust, ache, and pine for you to do absolutely nothing to thwart their
oppression. Comply, my friends, and you become as monstrously savage as
are they. I beg you, do not feed these hideous monsters with your stoic
lethargy, callousness and neutrality. Do not lubricate the path of their
racism, bigotry, and prejudice. Doing so directly threatens the
national security of our beautiful nation.
God help us now when someone with such visceral hatred of
conservative Christians—literally tens of millions of Americans—who says
sharing this gospel is “spiritual rape” is helping develop policies for
how to deal with Christians in the military.
Weinstein says those guilty of this “treason” must be “punished.”
Under federal law, the penalty for treason is death. And the Obama
administration is sitting down to talk with this man to craft new
policies for “religious tolerance” in our military.
Breitbart News legal columnist Ken Klukowski is senior fellow for
religious liberty at the Family Research Council and on faculty at
Liberty University School of Law.
obama took our right to a fair vote
Here’s Your “Black Panther at Philadelphia Polling Place” Photo
This morning, after voting in my own neighborhood, I stopped by the
polling place on the 1200 block of Fairmount Avenue, the same location
where the New Black Panther Party stirred up controversy during the 2008
election. Sure enough, a uniformed member of the New Black Panther
Party stood in the entrance area of the building. I identified myself
and told him that I was going to take his picture. “No pictures,
please,” he replied. I then asked him if he was there to provide
security. “No comment,” was all he had to say.
Would you care if a uniformed Black Panther seemed to be standing guard in front of
your polling place?
[PHOTO: Victor Fiorillo for The Philly Post]
Charges Against 'New Black Panthers' Dropped by Obama Justice Dept.
Charges brought against three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense under the
Bush administration have been dropped by the Obama
Justice Department, FOX News has learned.
The
charges stemmed from an incident at a Philadelphia polling place on
Election Day 2008 when three members of the party were accused of trying
to threaten voters and block poll and campaign workers by the threat of
force -- one even brandishing what prosecutors call a deadly weapon.
The
three black panthers, Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz
and Jerry Jackson were charged in a civil complaint in the final days of
the Bush administration with violating the voter rights act by using
coercion, threats and intimidation. Shabazz allegedly held a nightstick
or baton that prosecutors said he pointed at people and menacingly
tapped it. Prosecutors also say he "supports racially motivated violence
against non-blacks and Jews."
The Obama administration won the case last month, but moved to dismiss the charges on May 15.
Click here to see FOX News video from the scene on election day.
Click to watch the incident on YouTube.
The complaint says the men hurled racial slurs at both blacks and whites.
A
poll watcher who provided an affidavit to prosecutors in the case noted
that Bartle Bull, who worked as a civil rights lawyer in the south in
the 1960's and is a former campaign manager for Robert Kennedy, said it
was the most blatant form of voter intimidation he had ever seen.
In
his affidavit, obtained by FOX News, Bull wrote "I watched the two
uniformed men confront voters and attempt to intimidate voters. They
were positioned in a location that forced every voter to pass in close
proximity to them. The weapon was openly displayed and brandished in
plain sight of voters."
He also said they tried to "interfere with
the work of other poll observers ... whom the uniformed men apparently
believed did not share their preferences politically," noting that one
of the panthers turned toward the white poll observers and said "you are
about to be ruled by the black man, cracker."
A spokesman for the
Department of Justice told FOX News, "The Justice Department was
successful in obtaining an injunction that prohibits the defendant who
brandished a weapon outside a Philadelphia polling place from doing so
again. Claims were dismissed against the other defendants based on a
careful assessment of the facts and the law. The department is committed
to the vigorous prosecution of those who intimidate, threaten or coerce
anyone exercising his or her sacred right to vote."
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