7/10/2008

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
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Mayor 'could still take advice from disgraced
deputy' Katharine Barney, Evening Standard
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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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