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MIKE DOYLE (D) District 18 (Pittsburgh suburbs; Clairton; McKeesport...
...five laity met last week around tables arranged in the shape of a horseshoe for the second ecclesiastical trial in the history of the 23-year-old, 3 million-member Lutheran Church in America. Their verdict: the Rev. D. Douglas Roth, 33, ex-pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Clairton, Pa., was to be defrocked...
...normally quiet hillside street in Clairton, Pa., a detachment of 44 sheriff's deputies armed with billy clubs arrived last week at Trinity Lutheran Church. After pushing waiting reporters off the church lawn, Allegheny County Sheriff Eugene Coon pointed a chrome bullhorn at the gray stone building and snapped, "Those of you inside the church, do you hear me? You have a court order to vacate. Open the doors and come out!" There was no response. Half a dozen of the deputies then broke down the rear door and arrested four men and three women occupying the church in defiance...
When Roth refused to comply and barricaded himself inside the Clairton church, Bishop May won a court order to oust him. Roth eventually surrendered, and on Nov. 13 was sentenced to 90 days in prison for contempt of court. A special Lutheran panel will soon consider whether Roth should be defrocked...
...dying steel-mill town of Clairton, 71 of the 135 members at Trinity Lutheran Church had complained about Pastor D. Douglas Roth's support of DMS to Bishop Kenneth May and the regional synod of the Lutheran Church in America. Eventually the members demanded Roth's dismissal. When the synod decided to oust Roth and he refused to obey, it won a court order early this month requiring that he leave. Instead, Roth, 33, barricaded himself in the church and preached his usual Sunday sermon, telling the congregation of 75, "It is a sin to destroy people...