The First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa has expelled Republican Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and a female staff from its membership amid a raging controversy over an inappropriate audio recording that suggested the governor had an extramarital affair. Bentley was a deacon in the church.
"While church discipline is a church family matter, both Governor Robert Bentley and Mrs. Rebekah Mason are no longer members of First Baptist Church Tuscaloosa. I continue to pray for each of them," Senior Pastor Gil McKee told Christian News Network on Friday.
Spencer Collier, who was recently fired by Bentley as secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, had accused Bentley of having an affair with Mason. Collier said he heard a tape recording in 2014 where the governor made sexually explicit comments to Mason. Cont.
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