Do we need
MORE hypocrisy on the part of the esteemed "bishop"? Well, whether or not we need it, we've got it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxbA080Jpi8So now he thinks that all
pastors should be able to carry. Not all people. Not even all his parishioners -- just all
pastors. As if his having one pocket pistol under his robes would have been of any use whatsoever against multiple armed robbers, but ... who am I to judge?
As to his bishop-ness, 'tis exactly as I suspected:
Bishop Lamor Whitehead is currently bishop ay the Leader of Tomorrow International Ministries, which the Bishop founded himself and described as a ministry that empowers people through the unadulterated word of God.
As with so many BOCs (Bishops of Color), he wasn't ordained by anyone. He founded a church, and then declared himself to be a bisop. But wait! There's more -- he is not the church's only bishop ...
Yes, Bishop Lamor Whitehead from Brooklyn has a wife named Asia K DosReis Whitehead, who, like her husband, is a strict devotee of Christianity and Jesus and attends church services with her husband.
Asia is an independent woman who is a bishop at the Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries while also working for the company she founded named the UaReAChampion Empowerment Network.
The "bishop" was also guilty of identity theft in the halcyon days of his youth. Apparently he discovered that it's easier to con people into giving him money rather than waste the effort of stealing it from them. His bio, from the church's web site:
https://lotichurches.org/meet-our-pastorBishop Whitehead managed to finish High School as a celebrated athlete and went on to score athletic scholarships with Shaw University, Farmingdale University, and Eastern New Mexico University, where he studied Accounting and Videography. Bishop Whitehead attended New York Theological Seminary and completed his studies with a certificate in Ministry in Human Services from the Theological Institution of Rising Hope Inc.; accredited through Nyack College.
So he attended a seminary, but he apparently did NOT graduate with a degree that would lead to ordination by any mainstream church. But, where there's a will, there's a way:
Among these great accomplishments, Bishop Whitehead is most grateful for his upbringing in the church where he learned to love and serve God at Universal Temple under the leadership of the late Bishop Landon E. Penn. He went on to serve under the leadership of Bishop Albert Jamison of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. There he served as Bishop Jamison’s adjutant and later accepted the call of God on his life. Bishop Jamison later ordained him as a minister in 2006. In 2014 he was ordained as Pastor and as Bishop in 2016.
Problem: Not qualified to be ordained as a Christian minister.
Solution: Find someone who will ordain you anyway -- and make you a bishop on top of that. And I'll bet 'Bishop" Landon E. Penn went the same route. Yep:
Bishop Landon E. Penn was the founder of the Universal Temple Church of God in Brownsville and was an active member of the community.
So "Bishop" Penn founded his own church, ordained this clown, and then this clown founded
his own church. And so it goes.