Earl Paulk

Southern Gothic: Georgia Reconstructionist May Get To See Rock City / A longtime Atlanta megachurch leader with ties to the extreme Christian Reconstructionist agenda is under a criminal investigation for possible perjury. Earl Paulk Jr. was pastor of Chapel Hill Harvester Church (now called the Cathedral at Chapel Hill), at one time one of Atlanta�s largest congregations. But in recent years, he has become mired in litigation [...]

Sex on the Net X / Here are some more short sex-related stories that were in the news. Each one has a comical twist. Man finds wife in Brothel I wonder who has more explaining to do?! Click here to see video. A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment’s employees. Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town. “I was dumbfounded. I thought I was dreaming,” the husband told the newspaper. The couple, married for 14 years, are now divorcing, the newspaper reported. Condom & Laughing Gas Kill Man This is no laughing matter! Gary Ashbrook was discovered naked on his bed, with a condom over his head, alongside three empty cans of nitrous oxide he used to blow up the contraceptive. He was dead. The 31-year-old had been experimenting with the drug, also known as laughing gas, with friends he had met online, said housemate Michael Young, who found his body. Mr Young told the inquest: ‘He had been putting a condom on his head for two to three months. ‘He learned this through some friends of his for sexual gratification.’ Friend Paul Beaton said: ‘I knew he was into the sadomasochism bondage scene. I’m sure this was an accident.’ A post-mortem examination revealed that Mr Ashbrook, who had been HIV positive for seven years, died from asphyxiation. East Sussex coroner Alan Craze, recording a verdict of death by misadventure, warned against the dangers of taking nitrous oxide. He told the hearing at Eastbourne magistrates court: ‘If people use nitrous oxide, in the same way as any other drug, and it is abused, it carries with it considerable dangers.’ Child Molester Chokes on Hot Dog Here’s one that could be called poetic justice! A convicted child molester and kidnapper died in prison after choking on a hot dog, prison officials said. Frederick Fretz, 45, was serving a 20-year sentence at the federal penitentiary in California when he died on Dec. 19. According to a prison spokesman, medics tried to remove the hot dog from Fretz’s throat before taking him to a hospital. Cow’s Head sent to Wife’s Lover I think this guy has seen too many “Godfather” movies! A man who mailed a bloody cow’s head to his wife’s lover has been sentenced to probation and community service. Jason Michael Fife “understands that in a civilized society a person cannot send a severed cow’s head to anybody,” said his defense lawyer, Henry Hilles. Authorities in Lower Pottsgrove, northwest of Philadelphia, arrested Fife and charged him with stalking, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and harassment after he allegedly sent threatening messages and pictures to the victim between May and September 2006. Police said Fife, 31, got the cow’s head from a butcher’s shop, claiming he wanted the dried skull for decoration. Instead, he mailed the head frozen, so as not to alert parcel carriers to the contents, police said. The box became bloody after sitting on the victim’s doorstep on a warm day. “My client did step over the line here, but one can certainly understand his frustration, given that the victim was carrying on an affair with my client’s wife,” Hilles said. Fife, of Hunker, southeast of Pittsburgh, was sentenced Friday to a program for first-time offenders in which he must complete two years of probation and 50 hours of community service. If he successfully finishes the program, his record will be cleared. Fife and his wife, who have a young child, later reconciled, Hilles said. Am I My Brother’s Keeper? This preacher believes strongly in keeping it in the family! But how do you explain to your brother that his son is really his nephew?? And how do you explain to your nephew that he is really your son?? And what about the mother?? And if the son/nephew has kids, how do you rearrange the family tree?? The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her. Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk’s family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church a few Sundays ago and revealed the secret exposed by a recent court-ordered paternity test. He could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair. The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk’s nephew. “I am so very sorry for the collateral damage it’s caused our family and the families hurt by the removing of the veil that hid our humanity and our sinfulness,” said D.E. Paulk, who received the mantle of head pastor a year and a half ago. D.E. Paulk said he did not learn the secret of his parentage until the paternity test. “I was disappointed, and I was surprised,” he said. A judge ordered the test at the request of the Cobb County district attorney’s office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which are investigating Earl Paulk for possible perjury and false-swearing charges stemming from a lawsuit. The archbishop, his brother and the church are being sued by former church employee Mona Brewer, who says Earl Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. Earl Paulk admitted to the affair in front of the church last January. In a 2006 deposition stemming from the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his marriage was Brewer. But the paternity test said otherwise. So far no charges have been filed against Earl Paulk. District Attorney Pat Head and GBI spokesman John Bankhead would not comment.