More trouble for Matty the LCMS boss with Trumpy pastors

 "Matty," as I love to call him, is THE (Rush Limbaugh type voice), Matthew Harrison, ongoing president and almost president-for-life of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the largest denomination of the conservative, nay fundamentalist (sorry, sis, but call it as I see it) wing of Lutheranism in America.

The latest trouble? As sis alerted me, one of his minions, THE Rev. Stephen C. Lee, is among Fulton County Attorney Fani Willis "Dirty 19." In more detail, per the NYT, he's got five counts:

2 counts Criminal attempt to commit influencing witnesses 

1 count Violation of the Georgia RICO Act 

1 count Conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings 

1 count Influencing witnesses

Tis true one is a Georgia RICO count and one a conspiracy count but three are first-level counts. And, the witness influencing? To put it in terms of the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments, all three counts are attempts to get somebody to "bear false witness."

So, after starting this a week ago, I went to the Looserun Missourians Facebook, then the website again.

Crickets.

I told sis that he's out of Matty's grasp, being emeritus, but she said he's an interim pastor. Presuming the charges have reasonable evidentiary backing, he doesn't care whether he's in Matty's interim grasp or not.

So, having pushed a Nazi fellow traveler pastor out, but probably still facing more of "The Cross and the Swastika," to riff on an old book, Harrison has this on his plate. And, he still has the Hot Chalk lawsuit over Portland, and, though I've seen nothing about it, ex-student lawsuits, too; a full Portland blue-plate special, worth non-diner prices of tens of millions of dollars, maybe hundreds of millions, not to mention the "pricelessness" of craptacular ethics, possibly from the boss man himself, on the student lawsuits. But non-wingnut LCMSers can't unite on anybody to replace him and when presidential voting goes past the first round, if it does, he wins, as the "moderate right" won't have all votes unite on the remaining candidates.

I think, to tie this back to national secular politics, Harrison's supporters, albeit much more quietly, rely on the national Democratic presidential argument that a vote for (Jill Stein, Cornel West, Howie Hawkins, fill in the Green blank) is "actually" a vote for Trump, and insinuate that voting for whichever of the moderate right candidates is on the ballot is actually a vote for the wingnut right candidate.

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New news on Lee here.