Unfrocked. By Uncle Monty. The Ray Lewis Debacle.

Unfrocked.

By Uncle Monty.

:: The Ray Lewis Debacle ::
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Eight years ago he was removed or “unfrocked” from his

priestly duties by his own bishop at the Anglican diocese of

Barking. Allegations against him ranged from him unethically

borrowing £45.000 (or $US90.000) from a church worker and

some of his own vunerable parishioners to serious questions of

sexual harassment after his installation, in 1993, as the first

black vicar of St. Matthew’s Parish at London’s West Ham.

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A chubby, charismatic, cunning, and a Caribbean immigrant
to England, Ray Lewis was then in his glory days only to finally

find himself on the dreaded “Lambeth List” in one of its strictly

confidential blue files held at Lambeth Palace. To be placed on

the Lambeth List is the death kneel for any clergy member

wishing to serve in an ordained ministerial role at the
Mother Church of England. Thus, ended Ray Lewis’

vicarial and seemingly glib career after his mere

four-year stint as a minor British rector.

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Then 15 years later after his installation, come this

2008, the same Ray Lewis is suddenly picked by the

recent Mayor of London Boris Johnston to be his deputy

mayor for youth. Also falsely claiming to be a magistrate,

the once unfrocked (or defrocked) vicar of West Ham is

now in his new glory days only to shortly find himself

rudely-exposed and flushed out by shocking news stories

about his dubious past in the London Evening Standard -

by Keith Dovkants. Much of my own very brief story here

on "The Ray Lewis Debacle" is primarily based on

Keith’s first-class news reporting …

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New Allegation Against Ray Lewis

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23514672-details/Ray+Lewis+%27cornered+woman+in+hotel+room+and+ordered+her+to+strip+off%27/article.do

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Mayor 'could still take advice from disgraced

deputy' Katharine Barney, Evening Standard

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23514349-details/Mayor+%27could+still+take+advice+from+disgraced+deputy%27/article.do

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Here are my comments submitted to thisislondon, but

couldn’t for some reason get it to upload my message to

the online readers boards after perhaps a dozen tries.

So, will try later. In the meantime, here's what I stated:
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“nobody is to blame for "The Ray Lewis Debacle" other than
Ray Lewis himself!! It's an easy cop out to blame the church,

which is not in the business of being the police or standing

in for the mayor be he tory boris or red ken.

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"to say that it's unimportant for someone to claim he's a

magistrate when he isn't, tells us how the values of our society

are so screwed up much like is ray lewis. for the mayor to

also now indicate he may informally use mr. lewis' "expertise"

on the problem of london black youth crime only gives legitimacy

to a flawed character and defrocked anglican priest that is ray

lewis. mr. johnson should stay well clear of such a character no

matter how he's re-packaged for the sake of political correctness.

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"a gift from a bad man brings no good," the dictum says.
and ray lewis will bring no good to boris or his staff or his

agenda to curb knife violence and out-of-control bad

youthz on the crime-staturated streets of modern london.

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"and after the lee jasper arrest earlier this year at red ken's

city hall, the ray lewis affair should also entail an independent audit,

and possibly a criminal investigation, into all the charity money given

to his eastside young leaders' academy by the guardian newspaper.

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"when someone calls himself a magistrate who works with juvenile

deliquents, then i suspect other fabrications and lies surround the

same ex-deputy mayor!! best to check things out before any

further damage is allowed to be committed by ray lewis..”

truly, uncle monty. july 9th, 2oo8. 4.11am.

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