LETTER: What is Torian’s background?
Published: June 21, 2009
Now that the Democratic primary is over, I am VERY curious as to the educational background of Luke Torian. Never once that I saw was anything published about
military, college, etc. How about searching or digging and let the citizens of Prince William County know the truth?
LUCILLE FRY
Montclair
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Since Joni is hard at work googling the websites for information to support her views, here’s some stuff I’ve dug up about men of God…
James Bakker — Bakker left his PTL Ministries empire in 1987 after admitting an extramarital affair with Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary. He served five years in federal prison on fraud and conspiracy charges for illegally soliciting millions of dollars from followers.
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Jimmy Swaggart — Resigned from the Assemblies of God in 1988 after a fellow preacher released photos of Swaggart with a prostitute. In 1991, he was stopped for a traffic violation while driving in a red-light district in California with a woman who said she was a prostitute.
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The Rev. Henry J. Lyons — Lyons was forced out as leader of the National Baptist Convention USA after his then-wife set fire to a waterfront mansion he secretly owned with his mistress. He was convicted in 1999 of swindling millions of dollars from companies that wanted to do business with members of the denomination and was sentenced to five years in prison.
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Archbishop Eugene Marino — The Roman Catholic prelate from Atlanta resigned in 1990 after a two-year affair with a woman half his age. The woman claimed Marino performed a marriage ceremony for them in which the two exchanged rings.
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The Rev. Terry Hornbuckle — The founder of the Agape Christian Fellowship in Arlington, Texas, was sentenced in August to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting two women churchgoers and a third woman. Two of the victims said the minister had drugged them.
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The Rev. Ted Haggard — The founder of New Life Church in Colorado resigned as pastor and as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a gay prostitute claimed the two had drug-fueled sex regularly over three years. Haggard admitted he bought methamphetamine from the man and received a massage from him but denied that he used the drug and that the two had sex.
It seems that our Aussie Immigrant just can’t bring herself to like ANY AMERICAN POLITICIAN elected by the AMERICAN PEOPLE!!! What’s eating Joni
Al Mostonest
Policing America’s Immigrants
while I am not a supporter of Dr Torian, I will call it the way I see it. Here is his education background according to the Washington Post-
Education:
BA, Winston-Salem State University
MA, Virginia Union University
Ph.D, Howard University School of Divinity
Offices and positions held:
Mentor, Hylton High School and Forest Park High School
Former board member, Virginia Board of Counseling
Co-Founder, Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement (VOICE)
While I may totally disagree with this man’s standing on the issues, your concerns would have been eased by a quick search on the Virginia website. He appears to be a fine man and let’s face it, he is a minister, so he is bound to tell the truth which would be an amazing thing to see in American Politics. Maybe we need more “men of the cloth” to run for office, at least they would have to answer to a “higher power” since NO POLITICIAN these days seem to have to answer to us, the citizens.
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