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Judge Orders AIDS-Afflicted Pastor Who Had Sex With Female Members in Church Removed From Pulpit After Colorful Hearing

Juan Demetrius McFarland.
Juan Demetrius McFarland. | (Photo: Flickr/Shiloh Baptist Montgomery)

Pastor Juan D. McFarland of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, was forced to relinquish his pulpit in shame by a local judge Thursday after delivering an incriminating confession that he has full blown AIDS, slept with female members inside the church, abused drugs and church money while declaring he would not leave the ministry in recent weeks.

After a colorful hearing attended by a majority of his now former congregants, McFarland was ordered by Montgomery Circuit Judge Charles Price, to quit the pulpit, return church property and stay away from the church he led for 24 years in a temporary injunction, according to al.com. Congregants celebrated the ruling with hugs, kisses and prayer. They asked the Lord to bless McFarland.

McFarland reportedly complied with Judge Price's order to return keys, bank accounts, and a Mercedes Benz to officials at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church before a 5 p.m. deadline Thursday according to WSFA.

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Pastor McFarland and a now ex-member of the church, Marc Peacock, Sr. were sued by the church when he refused to leave after they voted him out of the congregation by a 80-1 margin after he confessed his shocking sins.

"It was extremely reluctantly that we took the action that we did, but we have to look (out) for the spiritual welfare of the members of Shiloh Missionary Baptist in moving forward," Lee Sanford, chairman of Shiloh's board of trustees, told the Montgomery Advertiser after the ruling. He explained that the church has always acted in a spirit of forgiveness towards their former pastor.

McFarland, who chose to represent himself in court, said nothing during the hearing, and when a reporter attempted to get a comment from him after the hearing, he shoved her microphone away from his face. The case will return for trial on Dec. 1, but it is unlikely that McFarland will contest the lawsuit further.

Sanford told the Advertiser that while the meeting in which Pastor McFarland returned the keys to the church was "tense" it was not combative.

McFarland delivered the Mercedes Benz to the church at about 4 p.m. then drove off in another with an unidentified woman, according to WFSA.

Sanford explained that the church will now move forward in "a studied fashion" to find a new pastor. Associate pastor, Rev. Arthur Green, is expected to lead church services in the interim.

WSFA.com Montgomery Alabama news.

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