Bubba Copeland shot himself in front of police on Friday, days after he begged 1819 News not to expose his private life.

A small-town Alabama pastor and mayor killed himself Friday, days after a local conservative news website published a story that included photos of him wearing women’s clothing and makeup.

F.L. “Bubba” Copeland, who was the mayor of Smiths Station and the pastor at First Baptist Church in Phenix City, shot himself in front of police during a welfare check, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said.

Copeland’s private life was exposed Wednesday by the conservative blog 1819 News, which was once owned by the right-wing Alabama Policy Institute and whose top editor is a former Breitbart News contributor.

  • pwnieb0y@lemmy.world
    36·
    1 year ago

    IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS! If people won’t listen to Jesus, maybe they can listen to his modern day apostle Fred Rogers when he said “I like you just the way you are.”

    • athos77@kbin.social
      23·
      1 year ago

      maybe they can listen to his modern day apostle Fred Rogers when he said “I like you just the way you are.”

      Right. That would be Presbyterian minister, children’s show host, gave-out-full-size-candy-bars-at-Halloween Fred Rogers, yes? The one that Fox went out of their way to describe as “an evil, evil man” who was [in effect] responsible for corrupting today’s youth? Well, sadly, I think I can explain why they don’t listen to Mr. Rogers …

    • LemmysMum@lemmy.world
      15·
      1 year ago

      They do listen to Jesus. Not the Middle-Eastern Jewish Socialist Jesus. They listen to white racist Conservative American Jesus, they listen to Supply Side Jesus, they listen to the Jesus who can fit a rich man through the eye of a needle and who’s death gives them the right to sin.