A 65-year-old pastor in Des Moines, Iowa, is below fireplace for reportedly marrying a girl who was 19 on the time.
Bishop Dwight Reed of the Christ Apostolic Temple angrily confronted his parishioners throughout Sunday service about accosting his spouse, whom he married two years in the past. Reed was 63 when the 2 exchanged vows, The Des Moines Register reviews.
Pastor fires off warning about confronting his younger spouse
Reed reportedly warned these few who got here at his spouse wrongly that there can be bodily repercussions if that occurred once more.
“And I wish some of y’all would mess with my wife, Jordan. Talking about, ‘What you gonna do if you see her?’ Well, you will see me on the news!” he barked.
“You better walk by and say, ‘Praise the Lord!’ That’s what you better do because that’s my wife! And she has grown! She didn’t need anybody to sign any paperwork for her. If this was out in the streets, y’all would be saying she made a come-up, but you are a hypocrite.”
The video has gone viral, two years later, with of us conveying dismay on the greater than 40-year age hole between the 2.
Reed defined that he’s unbothered by the blowback from critics, domestically and nationally, as a result of he mentioned he has accomplished nothing flawed. Within the state of Iowa, the authorized age of consent is 16.
He then recited scripture discussing the worth of marriage and instructed everybody that he and his spouse have been fortunately married and had accomplished nothing flawed: “And we sleep well at night! Ain’t nobody up all night worried about these crooks.”
The newspaper acknowledged that Reed met Goodlett when she was a teen scholar on the church faculty the place he was a dean, and he provided the underage woman “special guidance.”
“Well bless their hearts.”
