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Report: Codman Square minister among ten snared in prostitution sting
By adamg on Thu, 06/01/2017 - 9:42am
The Herald reports A. Livingston Foxworth, the senior pastor at the Grace Church of All Nations in Dorchester, was among ten men arrested on charges of paying for sexual conduct in a sting involving an undercover police officer, an ad on backpage.com and a location on Pine Street in Chinatown.
Innocent, etc.
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Roxbury ministers
I feel like back in the Menino days, leading Roxbury ministers were very public figures, often cited in news stories or working with the city on various task forces and other civic efforts related typically to the Roxbury, Mattapan communities. Of late, not so much. Now maybe this is just because I'm missing those stories or has that generation generally fallen out of power as Walsh became mayor? Rev. Groover had his bankruptcy issues. Rev Rivers isn't in the news as much these days. Etc...
Has there been a generational shift in Roxbury in terms of perceived leadership?
did you really just try to
did you really just try to place blame on the mayor for this?
No.
I was asking about the apparent decline in prominence of the group of Roxbury ministers who were front and center in anything to do with Roxbury and Mattapan.
It's because a lot of those
It's because a lot of those ministers were phony cronies without real congregations on various politicians' payrolls for PR. Once Menino, Wilkerson, and Turner were gone they weren't needed anymore.
Location never matters with you guys
I guess it doesn't matter that this pastor is from Dorchester.
Prostitution
They gotta legalize it.
And tax the churches. If you
And tax the churches. If you've got enough money to pay for sex you have enough money to pay real estate taxes like everyone else.
Tax them?
I guess the old story of "taxing the churches" coimes up whenever you can slip it into any news story....
This is a sad story of a man...with his failings.
We should tax the churches so that the ministers don't have $150 to spend?
No, we don't need this kind
No, we don't need this kind of filth in our city. We are a highly educated, progressive city that doesn't have room for an industry that implies half the population--women--can be downgraded from human beings to objects that can be bought.
Prostitutes aren't necessarily women
You do realize that prostitutes may be any gender, right?
Black Ministers
Or more specifically , Rev. Rivers have done a disservice to the community, more harm than good. He is a charlatan. and had never represented the people.
Only Himself.
Black Gen X's, Gen Y's, Millennial's and young professionals have distanced themselves from this type of "speak for all of us leadership", not the Church specifically, but the so called ministers that love the "show".
There are ministers that do great work with their congregations and neighborhoods that you never see/hear about unless you are a member or live adjacent.
And there are others, that you see all in the videos, all on the record, dancin'.
Faking the funk.
Become an ordained minister now!
Become an ordained minister now! I'm not sure what qualifications the minister in question has, but it doesn't take much to be a Reverend. Just look at the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, appropriately labeled "race-baiting poverty pimps" by (African-American) former Congressman J.C. Watts. The Catholic Church hasn't been much better with priests ignoring their vows. God may be the answer but not the church.
Not South End and right at the back door of a school
Pine Street is actually in Chinatown and right at the back door of a middle school not sure if the police was aware of this since they was out there all day arresting Johns.
Pine Street is in Chinatown, not
the South End.
Yes....
and to answer the inevitable follow-up question, the Pine Street Inn was originally located on Pine Street in Chinatown, moved to Harrison Ave in the South End, while retaining its name, in 1980,
Naming names
Naming solicitors of sex for money:
Good (reduces sex trafficking; hypocritical politicians, ministers, etc.)?
Bad (unnecessary; been there, done that; better things to focus on)?
Let's Remember
Let's remember, that Jimmy Swaggart only liked to watch.
And after that scandal and customary forgiveness, he bounced right back.
Old saying... "The leopard never changes its spots."