Updated - Pompous church “elders” threaten to expose sexually active 49 year old woman

Attack of the mutant 19th century church:

Updated from comments:

Thanks for your thoughts Todd. We obviously have a different opinion on what it means to have a “loving commitment,” but that is Okay.

The really ironic thing is that by Ms. Hancock going to FoxNews.com with this story, she got to expose her “sins” on her own terms, especially since she is not even a member of the church any more.

I see this differently than you. This is about power and ego. The church threatened to expose her publicly to the congregation, so she resigned from the church. In a blatant display of abuse of power and trust, they are going to go through with it any way.

Perhaps Mathew 15:1-3 is in order?

Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” - He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?”

FOXNews.com - Florida Woman Says Former Church Plans to Make Her Sins Public - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

A 49-year-old Florida woman says her former church is threatening to reveal her sins to its congregation after learning that she is in a “sexually immoral relationship.”

Rebecca Hancock told FOXNews.com that Grace Community Church, a non-denominational church in Jacksonville, Fla., was against her relationship with boyfriend Frank Young because the two were sexually active but not married.

When she wasn’t willing to obey the church’s orders to leave him, she decided to leave the church instead, allowing her two children to remain active members.

Now, she says, church elders have given her the worst ultimatum yet: In a Dec. 8 letter, they told her she either has to meet with them and end her “immoral” relationship or she will face public humiliation.

“Bottom line, on January they 4th they are going to the church publicly with my sins, and my children will be sitting in church at the time,” Hancock told FOXNews.com.

The Springfield Requirement - Man accidentally shoots wife during sex

This definitely lives up to the Springfield requirement.  (The requirement that I made up that postulates that in order for something like this to happen, you have to be from a place named Springfield.  It’s similar to being “over the rainbow.”)

Man Says Wife Was Accidentally Shot During Sex - Cincinnati News Story - WLWT Cincinnati

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — A Tri-State woman is in critical condition Wednesday after police say her husband shot her while they were having sex.

Timothy Havens, 38, told Springfield police he was reaching for something on the nightstand when the pistol went off, hitting his estranged wife Carolyn in the upper chest. (Hear part of the 911 call)

Carolyn Havens, 42, is being treated at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.