Sunday, April 04, 2010

Sometimes it’s about addiction

BerthaWright Pastor Bertha Wright allegedly tired to buy prescription drugs with a fake prescription. She was buying methadone, hydrocodone, and Carisoprodol along with another drugs. Pastor Wright appears to have a large monkey on her back. Apparently, being a pastor or pastor’s wife, does not prevent one from succumbing to the lure of drugs. Her church is pissed.

This is our pastor’s wife and it’s had destroyed the hearts of the church members,” said Michael Williams, a lifelong AOH Church of God member. “This is really breaking and sad news to our entire church, because we didn’t know anything about it.”

Pastor Wright did not tell her church of her arrest on March 5th, nor did her husband, Pastor Levon Wright. They kept it a secret until the story broke in the press. I wonder if they thought it might impact their income? They are such hypocrites.

"They're preaching and praying, but they're not talking and telling the truth," Williams said. "And that's wrong. Don't preach and tell us to live right, and you ain't living right."

The Wrights preach at AOH Church of God in Mount Vernon, Georgia. I hear their show closes soon.

Drug addicts, once an addict, always an addict. They need honest help and lots of love, but trust should be in short supply unless earned.

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ThatAtheistChick · 799 weeks ago

Damn... hypocrites much?
If she were a real woman of god she would have turned her addictions over to god and let him heal her. Instead she let satan keep his grip on her. [/sarcasm]

What she needs is a good treatment program and lots of support, not the nasty condemnation of the holier-than-thou church biddies. Sadly she'll probably, at best, end up in one of those 12-step programs that will reinforce her religious addiction and do little or nothing for her drug problems. I saw it time and time again when I was working with dually diagnosed adults.
I noticed that the church members seem all upset about this addiction. I think the church member should be much more supportive then what I read in this post. What I find sad about this is you tend to hear most members of churches with sex abuse in them supporting the pastor. Yes I know some members of churches aren't supportive of their pastors when they are exposed but most of the time it seems they are more willing to support a sex abuse then drug problems.
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I think they are more upset with the dishonesty and the fact that the pastors gave in to that which they preach against.

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