Did you ever have a relationship that you regretted?
You know, the clingy ex, the heartache, the weird TXT messages late at night, the cold sores, they all pile up and leave you wishing that you never
met the pyscho-let alone tell them your Peter Pan fantasies.
Well, being a wacked out dickhead and abusive piece of shit isn’t reserved for just your most recent ex who thought they’d get you back if they used coercive tactics. No, seems churches got in on the fun too.
Take Grace Community Church in Jacksonville Florida for example.
This cult of Hester Prynne stoning slackjaws is blackmailing an ex congregant by threatening to disclose “her sins” to anyone who wishes to stop by their cult compound on Sunday January 4th.
Rebecca Hancock trusted a mentor (vampire) with her most intimate feelings and experiences only to have that mentor break her trust and blab it around to the other Pharisees in the Borg Hive.
So Rebecca distanced herself from the church, resigned from it, and walked away-like anyone who finds themselves in an abusive relationship should.
Was that the end? You’d think so. But not if you’re trapped in “Lethal Attraction II: The Christ’s Revenge”.
Nope. They sent her a letter blackmailing her into coming back to the church or else they’ll publically humiliate her.
Her crime by the way? She’s unmarried and has sex.
I’ve checked out their website’s church calendar and it doesn’t have
Rebecca Hancock’s “public humiliation punishment” listed on their events schedule for Sunday January 4th. Why not? Is blackmail something they wouldn’t want the Internet to find out about? Well, oops.
Grace Community Church’s telephone number is: 904 268 8854.
Their email is: office@gracejax.org
Fox’s Coverage and the Blackmail Letter
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,469928,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Church_Extortion.pdf
Grace Community Church
http://www.gracejax.org/index.php
December 21, 2008 at 9:05 am
Hate mail sent. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
January 29, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Follow up note:
I called up Grace Community Church the
week following the scheduled shaming (January 4th) and the fellow who answered the phone said he couldn’t comment on Hancock because its “a private matter”.
Convenient. Its private now that the church is in the spotlight.
One must wonder: Is this a case of the kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar? What was acceptable when it was in the privacy of their own church is suddenly not so cool when exposed to the light of the larger faith communities? I dunno. Maybe it will give other churches pause before bullying their ex-members.
Ryan McGivern