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Man dies at 'sex and drugs' party at church minister's home after pair met online
Daily Mail ^ | September 29, 2011

Posted on 09/29/2011 1:32:55 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

A man has died after a sex party held at a church minister's house.

Reverend Mark Bidwell, who is the minister at the Metropolitan Community Church in Ferndale and a former police chaplain, Detroit, called 911 at 5.30am last week to report a man at his home had stopped breathing.

He said he met the man, Steven Fitch, 43, of Lincoln Park, on a website the night before and invited him over to his house for sex.

According to the police report Bidwell told a 911 operator: 'I've got someone who has apparently stopped breathing.'

When the dispatcher asked how old the victim was, the 52-year-old replied: 'Honestly, I don't even know. We just met today.'

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Ferndale mayor, Dave Coulter, described the minister as a respected member of the gay community.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 09/29/2011 1:32:59 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Sick. Sick. Sick. On SO many levels.


2 posted on 09/29/2011 1:35:04 PM PDT by ReaganBaby26 (Matthew 12:36)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Fernwood? Was it hosted by Barth Gimble and Jerry Hubbard?

Music by Happy Kyne and His Mirthmakers?


3 posted on 09/29/2011 1:36:32 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; EdReform

Ferndale mayor, Dave Coulter, described the minister as a respected member of the gay community.


4 posted on 09/29/2011 1:36:36 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ReaganBaby26

Sick, sick, sick, is the nature of Metropolitan churches. All of them.


5 posted on 09/29/2011 1:37:03 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

There is a “Gay Church” here in Dallas...Cathedral of Hope.

A “friend” posts their sermons on Facebook every week.

They are NOT a church, they are a gay advocacy group, a gay “community center” where they hear why they should feel good about being gay, from people who wear ministerial garb.


6 posted on 09/29/2011 1:37:20 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Bush called us "vigilantes." Perry calls us "heartless.")
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To: jessduntno

Oh..........FernDALE....never mind.


7 posted on 09/29/2011 1:37:20 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
a respected member of the gay community

Somewhere an oxy is missing its moron.

8 posted on 09/29/2011 1:38:04 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
From the Article

"Ferndale mayor, Dave Coulter, described the minister as a respected member of the gay community."

And then in the next line...

"He told clickondetroit.com: 'This is not the Rev Bidwell that I or most of us know."

Really? the man is an openly practicing homosexual and Mayor Coulter is surprised he's having gay orgies????

9 posted on 09/29/2011 1:38:53 PM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Eww - the rest of the story is even worse. Why do we have to get our news from the Daily Mail? (rhetorical)


10 posted on 09/29/2011 1:39:10 PM PDT by Montanabound
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

>>Ferndale police said they have since removed Bidwell from his volunteer position as a police chaplain.<<

Yes. Perhaps that would be best.


11 posted on 09/29/2011 1:39:15 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Bush called us "vigilantes." Perry calls us "heartless.")
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To: Travis McGee

If he was respected, what would you have to do to be disrespected?


12 posted on 09/29/2011 1:40:22 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Originally printed 11/13/2008

Metropolitan Community Church Rev. Mark Bidwell agreed. “While I don’t agree with what that church teaches or preaches, they are still a church and I have to have a respect for that,” he said of the protest. “What I’d rather see happen is to be able to go and talk to the pastors of that church, talk to the congregation in a peaceful way and let them know that all we’re seeking are the basic rights we should be entitled to.”

Rev. Bidwell pointed out that though their actions remained mostly non-violent, they caused chaos that could have led to injury. “Some of the things they have done, like pulling the fire alarm - people could have been hurt,” he chastised. “I think the fact that they could have stood there inside the church - maybe in silence - could have meant as much than some of the actions that they took.”

Bash Back! has been known to speak out against peaceful gay activists, claiming that their actions are conforming to a hetero-normative society.

To Rev. Bidwell and others, the actions of Bash Back! are harmful to the LGBT community, fueling the fears that many anti-gay believers already have about gays and lesbians. “I believe in the peaceful protest,” he said. “I believe in what Martin Luther King and Ghandi and Jesus taught us that to use violence any time, I think, is wrong. To destroy property any time is wrong. The idea that this reflects on our community can be harmful for us because all that does is it makes people more afraid.”

http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=32938


13 posted on 09/29/2011 1:41:21 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I knew this had to do with Sodomites.


14 posted on 09/29/2011 1:42:10 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (We're the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad...in all 57 states!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He should get together with that weatherman that was in the news recently. They have a lot in common.


15 posted on 09/29/2011 1:42:43 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Originally printed 9/2/04

PONTIAC - He thought he was going to learn to be a better chaplain; instead, he was confronted with the bitter truth of intolerance. On the recommendation of a friend, the Rev. Mark Bidwell, pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit, signed up for a six-day, 47-hour fully accredited chaplaincy certification training given by the International Fellowship of Chaplains. Bidwell made it no further than day two, however, and left when the “spiritual violence” he encountered became overwhelming.

Toward the end of the first day, the conversation turned to marriage.

“We talked about divorce and that one of the causes of divorce was homosexuality,” recalled Bidwell. “I don’t have a problem with that. I was actually married and my wife filed for divorce because I was gay.”

http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=9315


16 posted on 09/29/2011 1:43:00 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Funny.


17 posted on 09/29/2011 1:43:26 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Brett66

” what would you have to do to be disrespected?”

It that community, you would have to be a conservative Christian with high moral values.


18 posted on 09/29/2011 1:45:14 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country., Really! NOW!!!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Daily Mail huh.

Were you keeping up with the Kardashians again? ;o)


19 posted on 09/29/2011 1:46:12 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (We're the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad...in all 57 states!)
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To: Disambiguator

Yeah. Dead naked male bodies in the home.............


20 posted on 09/29/2011 1:46:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (We cannot defeat an enemy that the president and hence his administration cannot name.......)
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