A pastor from Indiana accused of making sexual advances towards a man near a lake has been charged with battery, WLKY reports.
59-year-old Gaylard (his real name!) Williams is the pastor at the Praise Cathedral Church of God in Seymour, IN. On Tuesday, he appeared before a local court about an incident that happened between him and a 27-year-old man late last week.
According to court documents, the victim says he was parked at Cypress Lake last Friday when Williams strutted up his vehicle. The man rolled down his window to see what he wanted. That’s when he claims the pastor reached into the car, grabbed his crotch, squeezed his genitals, and asked for a blow job.
Talk about a really bad approach.
How about we take this to the next level?
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The victim told Williams he was “barking up the wrong tree.” Then he pretended to reach for a gun, causing Williams to flee the scene, but not before the man was able to jot down his license plate number and call police.
Caleb Funke, who works as a youth director at another local church, told WKLY that he is “startled” by the accusations against his fellow religious leader and neighbor.
“I think it’s a surprise to all of us, as friendly as he was in the neighborhood,” he said.
“I guess when you hear of a pastor getting caught of that, you get a little more shocked than I guess somebody else,” Funke continued. Then he added: “But we’re all sinners, so.”
Police say that when they caught up with Williams, they discovered gay pornography in his car. Williams claimed he was taking the porn to someone else.
Williams has been released from custody on a $335 bond.
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Graham Gremore is a columnist and contributor for Queerty and Life of the Law. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
Ladbrook
Do they not have adult bookstores in Indiana?
Roan
Why use the word “rape” in the headline? This isn’t an attempted rape.
Dave in Northridge
This is where I wish I had a .gif of Dana Carvey as the Church Lady saying “Isn’t that special?
throwslikeagirl
It’s disgusting and includes inappropriate touching, but the “rape” allegation’s a bit of a stretch.
SteveDenver
Gaylard? Is that the Trans Fat version of SissyCrisco?
Trippy
Oh okay, I’ll ask since no one else has… what was the victim doing sitting alone in his car at the lake? Watching ducks? Smoking pot? Seems like an odd place for a nap.
throwslikeagirl
@Trippy: Who cares? Even if it was a known gay pick-up spot, it’s conceivable that the guy didn’t know that. I’ve taken country drives alone many times and stopped to admire the scenery. Also, let’s say the guy was cruising. If his story’s true, the good pastor certainly could have, um, handled the situation a tad less aggressively. I thought of what you’re thinking as well; there is another side to this story. There always is. Nonetheless, I believe the minister was in the wrong. I don’t know what he preaches, but I bet the conclusions I jumped to are correct.
jason smeds
Straight-identifying men love blow-jobs. Love, love, love. If they could have someone giving them a blow-job 24/7, they’d be in constant bliss.
A lot of them don’t get blow-jobs from their wives and girlfriends. They then turn to men, who are vastly more sexually promiscuous than women. Men would do it in the mud, blow-jobs and all. Ever seen a mud-covered blow-job?
onthemark
I looked on Squirt.org to see if this place is listed as a “cruising” venue, but it’s not listed.
@Trippy: Still my guess is he was probably smoking pot… plus hoping for someone close to his own age, and freaked out when daddy groped him.
onthemark
@jason smeds: LOL. “A broken clock is right twice a day.” – A. Lincoln
YouGoGurl
“I think it’s a surprise to all of us, as friendly as he was in the neighborhood,” he said.
Because we know gays are THE LEAST friendly people in the universe.
NoCagada
“Caleb Funke, who works as a youth director at another local church, told WKLY that he is “startled” by the accusations against his fellow religious leader and neighbor.”
Startled because Caleb thought he was giving him enough sucking for Jesus.
Desert Boy
“Gaylard”? Who names their kid Gaylard?
Saint Law
@jason smeds: You have an overheated imagination.
Kangol
Oddly this Queerty report doesn’t mention that the pastor and his church are anti-gay. Why, Queerty?
So let’s establish this as a baseline: homophobic (religious) creep = closeted, self-loathing gay.
People like this disturbed, Christianist yokel would help themselves, and everyone else on this globe, if they’d just get psychological help and leave the rest of us alone!
Xzamilio
That’s so stupid. Who even buys porn anymore? This dude doesn’t know about Redtube, MyVidster, PornHub, or even Grindr? Poor sexually repressed religious gay pastor. That dude should consider himself lucky… some of those nuts do crazy things when they want to release that pent up sexual frustration.
Xzamilio
You know… crazy like going up to some dude in a car, grabbing his dick and just asking for employment at knob polishing lol
Xzamilio
@NoCagada: Well, Christians are supposed to get on their knees and pray to Jesus in anticipation for his return… or to summarize, get on their knees and service him until he comes.
jason smeds
This is why straight-identifying men with pent-up sexual urges are so much more fun than your regular gay guy. They are more forceful and they have a mean look on their faces.
As they force you to partake of their muscle-spear, they will push your head down and utter homophobic slurs. Then, they will go home to their wives like the contented little swine that they are.
Some of them have extremely good bodies which, when de-odorized, are tolerable in the throes of passion. I always thought that rednecks had the best bodies, and I haven’t been proven wrong once.
aliengod
This is ridiculous. The headline suggests this was an attempted rape. However, nothing in the story says anything about rape. If I were this man, I’d sue.
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@jason smeds: Nothing like giving a straight dude a holy blow job!!! Allow me to testify for the congregation on that shit today!!! Yes Lord!!!
And atleast a straight man has an alibi for why they don’t call yo’ black ass back when you know you done gave his white ass the best goddamn headjob this side of fucking MARS!!! These gay men (like Saint Law – he he he) are just straight ungrateful!!! It’s a sin I tell ya!!!
A SIN!!!
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
This story is too juicy. A closeted, gay pastor named Gaylard, living in a city named Seymour huh? No wonder he thought he had a good cover-up.
And then, “But we’re all sinners, so…” Wow! Lots of straight men in that city getting, and giving man-on-man blowjobs. That’s self-incrimination! I mean, so then how many man-on-man blowjobs have you enjoyed there Mr. Caleb Funke?
And then it all leads me to one mind-blowing question: And so then how long after the pastor left did the victim take before he pulled his own dick out, and jerked off to the shit himself? Before then calling the police, and crying rape?
Sounds like this city is full of straight men playing the cover-up game.
Saint Law
@jason smeds: “I’ve always thought that rednecks have e best bodies and I haven’t been proven wrong once.”
Of course not. For that to happen you’d have to, you know, actually have sex with them. Or anyone.
Saint Law
@I’m Black, and HIV-Positive.: Oh look – now his sock puppets are ‘talking’ to each other.
Do you wear a black one on your hand especially?
1ezbear
It is a Seymore is between Indy and Louisville, and the spot was cruise once upon a time.
Church of God is a fundamental church. so anti gay yes.
transiteer
Well, any unqualified half-wit can call himself a Pastor – you don’t need any qualifications for that. But this clown must be the most ignorant closet case ever – not a good approach at all. Does he do the same thing when preaching? At least he’s sincere in wanting a blow job. I doubt anything he says in his church he’s sincere about.
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@Saint Law: Ha ha ha! You faggot bitch coward! Well, run coward run! You coward ass, rascist, Nazi sympathizer! Mad because we’re the gays who are actually having sex now huh? Wow.
And so, either I’m white, or I must be Jason Smeds? Nice try again fag! And you know you can never count on me, and Jason to NOT be on the same side of any issue now bitch! So go ahead, and thank yourself for digging your own grave too then dumb-ass! Ha ha ha!
Oh, and I’d never wear a sock puppet. That would cover up the knuckles on my backhand bitch! But then I’m sure you know only too well that us men take off gloves even in freezing temperatures to backslap the shit out of coward bitch asses like you. Merry Christmas!
onthemark
@Saint Law: I see no evidence that “jason smeds” and “I’m Black, and HIV-Positive” are the same person. I wonder why you think that. They have ENTIRELY different writing styles and entirely different obsessions.
“jason” has always prissily denied ever doing the activities (i.e. anal sex and “drugs”) that generally cause HIV transmission (indeed, he’s a Duesbergian HIV denier who doesn’t even believe HIV is the cause of AIDS! – but that’s a whole ‘nother story).
I’ve even seen people assume these two are both the same person as “BJ McFrisky,” another poster who has an entirely different writing style and obsession (in his case, usually a mere short paragraph of monomaniacal whining about “liberals”).
I don’t find it surprising or unbelievable that there are as many as three annoying contrarian lunatics on here!
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@onthemark: Uh no, that was Saint Law too! He was the one who jealously (and insanely) asserted that when a quote by BJ got printed recently by Queerty that we all three must then simply be the same person. Whatever sense that makes.
loua61
For about 10 months I was not allowed access to this website at work and then just last week I tried and it came up again, for now anyway. Needless to say I did not spend my free time reading the comments at home, but now that I’m back I see that the comments are still nothing but fighting with eachother rather than standing up as acommunity. Sad