It looks like karma may be catching up to antigay pastor James David Manning and his supporters. His Harlem church, Atlah Worldwide Church, is scheduled for a public foreclosure auction next month after the pastor failed to pay back over $1 million in debts.
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The church has drawn attention to itself over the past year or so for posting signs that say things like “Jesus would stone homos” or “Harlem is a sodomite free zone.” And, of course, for its crazy pastor, who once said Starbucks makes lattes out of semen to attract gay customers and who claims to know members of the KKK who are more tolerant than “white homos.”
Court records show that Manning owes a grand total of $1.02 million to creditors, so a state judge ordered the building be put up for sale. But the pastor says he isn’t worried.
“I assure you, it’s about a water bill and a tax that can’t be levied against this church,” Manning told DNAInfo. “I think it’s a land grab quite frankly.”
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Court records, however, show it’s a little more than an unpaid water bill that Manning is in trouble over. There are a total of nine federal tax liens against him dating back to 2002 and totaling more than $355,000. Another $30,000 is over to New York State, and another $28,000 is owed to various other creditors. Then, of course, there’s interest, and fines, and fees, and interest on top of the fines and fees, etc., etc.
Manning also told DNAInfo that he just found out about the public auction last week and that before then he had no idea there was even a case against him. But, again, court records indicate otherwise. The case initially began more than six years ago, in September 2009, and the pastor’s lawyer filed a response to the complaint one month later, in October 2009. He had until April 2015 to pay down the debts, which he failed to do, hence why a judge just ordered a foreclosure sale.
Grab your pocketbooks, people. The public auction is scheduled for February 24.
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Ed Ahern
Without a doubt, some LGBTQI agency should buy it — at all costs — and covert it to a support center for youth!
Glücklich
Well Harlem is NYC’s next hot real estate destination though *I* wouldn’t want to live that far from work.
Martin Talbot
Hate is in decline ! LOL ð???ð??ð??¬ð???
Roy Hortman
Fucking black bitch
Barrie Goldleaf
Gay club, anybody?
joeyty
I heard him speaking on a radio program a few years back (before the gay controversies) and he sounded really reasonable, sane, even interesting to listen to. But I guess he really was, or went, pretty crazy….otherwise how could some of his crazy statements be explained ?
Stephen Meeks
Karma
Scott Metzgar
Here is a good idea, do what they did here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limelight
Jonathon Popphan
Someone should buy it and turn it into a gay club.
Paul Fucetola
Good riddance to a bigot fucker! Hope he winds up working at Starbucks!
Bauhaus
@Ed Ahern:
Great idea!
Revolting that churches own prime real estate in every town and city in this country and don’t pay taxes.
Kathryn Henry
It’s the fault of evil white homos? You’re welcome!
Mikah92
God doesn’t have a million dollars to spare?
Sweetie Pie
I would buy it and turn it into a gay sauna…
Masc Pride
Interesting. Gay black guys say white men are sexual r cists, but black preachers say “white h0m0s” are corrupting black men and destroying black families. Someone’s lying!
LOL/ewwwwwwwww! @ semen lattes.
Shirley White
Wonderful!!! Sick human!!! Hope he looses everything….
Jordan Grech
So if I said black homos I be done for racism and homophobia but he says white homos and nothing is done. Bullshit so no such thing as racism to white Peoole?! Ahhhh America’s so fucked it untrue ð??¡ð??¡ð??¡ð??¡ð??¡ð??¡
Scott McIntosh
As Oscar Wilde said of the death scene of Little Nell “It would take a heart of stone not to laugh”
John Malin
His type will spew his hatred on the street corners wrapped in a blanket, until someone realizes how crazy he is and takes him to Bellevue Hospital for observation and a lobotomy.
paul dorian lord fredine
gotta know….prayer not workin’ for ya? well maybe if you do sufficient groveling your good friend donald trump might consider giving you a hand. and if it really is the land grab you say it is perhaps cliven and what’s left of his brood will consider running to offer you some well-armed but ‘peaceful’ assistance. but… wait…you’re not white so i guess we can cross that one off the list. or you could turn it into a starbucks specializing in delicious semen-free lattes. @Jordan Grech: and jordan, the question marks at the end of your comment are quite appropriate because that’s what i thought. ?????? what is he saying ?????? try to make some sense next time.
Nick Guida
nick from Ham 24/7 we had an impromptu interview with him on the latte accusations
https://www.acast.com/ham247/pastormanninginterview
Chris
@Scott McIntosh: I wish I had thought of that!
Tony Chaplinski
good
Jack Walter
The Pastor was spending all the church money on lattes, LOL!
Captain Obvious
I don’t know how a semen latte would work but it sounds like it’s packed with protein.
MacAdvisor
The reporting in this story left me confused. That the pastor of a church owes a great deal of money doesn’t put the building of the church at risk. The building is generally owned by a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization. In fact, one of the requirements to be a church is to have a distinction identity separate from an individual, such as the pastor. However, the items mention, water and power bills, sound like bills of the church, not the pastor, so he doesn’t actually owe the money, as the article implies, the church he works for does. All told, rather sloppy reporting.
Darnell Hill
As a tax payer and believer in human rights, I say…..Good riddance.
Timothy Grover
HA! I thought that was Semen Latte Guy! lol
Hussain-TheCanadian
Someone should tell the Pastor that maybe…..just maybe, “god” wants him to retire??!!
Kevin J Desmond
Hope he knows Jesus doesn’t like him.
Chutney
Looks like a karma had run over his dogma.
Dakotahgeo
Ah yessss. Another idiot false profit (sic) and a piker to boot! Praise the almighty $$$!
Kangol
I like the idea of turning his church into a bathhouse or sex palace. The old Mount Morris Baths in Harlem closed down, so they could reopen here. They could even offer a “Semen Latte Saturday” special!
Saskia Vreedenburgh Brink
Semen …… latte …….. LMFTO
Alex T Hornby
The guy has mental health issues.. He needs counselling, not salvation..
Tom Hilton
He’ll probably just pop up again somewhere else.
Jay A. Scaramazzo
Highest bid 12 cents.
RainbowPhoenix
The Ali Forney Center is working to buy the building. Anyone interested in helping them should follow the link.
https://www.queerty.com/wp/wp-login.php?action=rp&key=bWC8yY6jXGABBh3ugcoD&login=RainbowPhoenix
RainbowPhoenix
The Ali Forney Center is working to buy the building. Anyone interested in helping them should follow the link.
https://aliforneycenter.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donate.event&eventID=531
Alan David Smith
whenever rich people eventually get busted for not paying thier bills. it becomes a cospiracy of (place your group here) to destroy. for his water bill i’d be happy to send him as much of the flint river as he can drink. 🙂
Ole Olsen
Semen Latte swearword og dragname; just cant see how it fits in this context?????
Ole Olsen
the pastor (cunt) could make a Steve Irwin crocodile nature programme or simply go naked ,alone ,covered in honey on a safari ,his last words could be the hame of the gay club serving cocktail named ,hmm a semen latte ..
1EqualityUSA
Latte’s mind is in the flesh, not the spirit. This starves the flock.