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Anti-Trump Pastor Got Caught In Sex Shop With Church's Credit Card
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By Ryan Ledendecker
Published July 12, 2019 at 4:12pm
The first female minister of a famously progressive church in Manhattan, New York recently lost her position after allegedly taking a group of fellow ministers on a bizarre sex toy shopping spree.
Rev. Amy Butler, who’s known at Riverside Church as “Pastor Amy,” was a rising star famous for her anti-Trump charades. That is, until she took a member of the church and two fellow ministers to a store called “Smitten Kitten,” an adult toy shop in Minneapolis.
The group was in town for a religious conference and while at the adult shop, Fox News reported that the woman purchased a $200 adult toy for one of the ministers and offered to buy a toy for another minister who happens to be a homosexual in a committed relationship.
The unnamed gay minister reportedly told Butler on multiple occasions that he felt uncomfortable that she was offering him such a strange gift. Butler jokingly asked, “Is this a church business expense?”
It wasn’t confirmed that she used church funds to buy the adult toys.
As one would expect, it didn’t take long for Butler to receive harassment charges. Within days of the incident, Riverside Church hired a third-party investigator who confirmed the harassment accusations, eventually leading to Butler’s termination.
According to Fox News, the church council was already questioning Butler’s judgment, as the progressive minister recently asked for a staggering $100,000 raise.
That’s a high number. But Butler’s raise request is even more staggering in context: the minister already took home a $250,000 salary and an $8,000 per month housing allowance.
On July 7, her immediate replacement, interim Senior Minister Michael Livingston, delivered the news of her termination during a morning worship service.
“Rev. Dr. Amy Butler and the Riverside Church Council are announcing that after five years of leadership, Pastor Amy will not be renewing her contract as senior minister,” he said to the congregation.
“The Council thanks Pastor Amy for her leadership and asks all congregants to pray for her continued ministry as a leader in the progressive Christian world.”
It seems Pastor Amy will need quite a few prayers, as finding a gig as lucrative as her last job may be tough.
The harassment charges won’t do her any favors, either.
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Poster Comment:
Pastor Amy needs some serious guidance. We all know what God did to Sodom and Gomorrah.