Snake Oil Shop?
Pastor Matthew C. Manning, a prominent proponent of the "ex-gay" movement and leader of Lighthouse World Evangelism in Santa Rosa, California has a long history of arrests for public sexual misconduct.
Manning claims he was "delivered from homosexuality" in 1989 and miraculously healed of AIDS through prayer in 1994. He first gained noteriety on Roseanne Barr's talk show, and has appeared on numerous Christian television broadcasts, including The 700 Club and several episodes of The Joni Show on CBN, alongside Exodus president Alan Chambers and Focus on the Family's Mike Haley.
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David Roberts of Ex-Gay Watch located arrest records on Manning over the past 11 years on charges of sexual misconduct and/or lewd public acts:
- In 1998, Manning was arrested for soliciting sex from a male undercover police officer in a public park near Hansen Dam in Los Angeles. The charges were dismissed or not prosecuted.
- In 2000, Manning was arrested for soliciting or engaging in lewd public behavior in North Hollywood. He pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial, and was acquited in 2001.
- In 2005, Manning was arrested at a 24-Hour Fitness gym in Santa Rosa and charged with misdemeanor sexual battery for inappropriately touching a 22-year-old man against his will. Manning entered a plea deal, and received a restraining order to stay away from both the victim and the gym for one year.
"We call on Manning to immediately close down his snake oil shop. We also urge those in the media who promoted his fake miracle to apologize and update their audience on the sordid facts that have been revealed.”Roberts is conducint ongoing research on Manning's criminal past and says the results will be posted on Ex-Gay Watch in the next few days. He is asking anyone who has had their own experience with Manning to contact him with any pertinent information. Reprinted From Article By Kelvin Lynch
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Pastor Maanning is doing what Rightwing Wingnuts do best, the hypocrisy dance. These Wingnuts can’t make it through the day without telling the rest of us how to live while the proponent of moral code keeps one hand with the fingers crossed behind his back.
Now, Pastor Manning would have us believe that he was taking his ministry to the 22 year old and the gym so he could lay his healing hands on the the 22 year old’s “sinful flesh.” Or that Paastor Manning was speaking in tongues to the undercover detective in the park–he didn’t want that hedonist to be pronged by the Devil (frankly, when Manning’s around, the Devil could take a coffee break).
Seriously, this idiot is a pompous gasbag of contradicitons much like GoveyLoveyPoopy Sanford; Ann Coulter who couldn’t get a man no matter how hard she tried; Haley Barbour who talks like he needs to blow his nose; Pat Robinson who talks to God who apparently got his info wrong; Newt Gringrich the failed politician; Rush Limbaugh who pontificates without discretion; Bill O’Reilly who chases female interns around the office. Billo’s wife must want to pound his swelled head; Sean Hannity just dumber than a shoelace; and only because she is dumber than a used rubber, Sarah I wants to be Prez Palin.
Duh – the whole ex-gay movement is a fraud. The whole Christian Right is a fraud. The most frightening thing about any of this is not the deception, but that those folks who believe themselves to be the True Children of God are so willing – no, so very desperate to be deceived. They all are walking, talking, living lies in the flesh and anything they can grasp at to paper over that sad reality will be embraced by them.