His wife of 36 years, Ruth, is standing by him and is understood to have accompanied him abroad to his other ministry, in the American state of Arizona.

Where he presumably thinks they do not have the internet, nor read newspapers.

Reid had already resigned as director of the Christian Coalition for Traditional Values, and is best known for his role in the campaign against Jerry Springer: the Opera. The only time he has featured in the Prattle is when a Peniel Church billboard in Edinburgh was creatively vandalised.

Update: He might not be doing much in Arizona after all, according to the Michael Reid Ministries home page:

Bishop Michael Reid tendered his resignation from the church board and stepped down from pastoral duties in the church. The reason is that he has sinned by committing adultery and he has unreservedly apologised for what he had done and has taken full responsibility for his actions.

Bishop who preached family values finally admits: I am an adulterer—Daily Mail, 10th April 2008; Pastor resigns post over adultery—BBC News, 10th April 2008; Bad "Bishop" resigns from CCTV—MediaWatchWatch, 8th April 2008. See also Bishop Michael Reid Resigns over Sex Scandal—Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 8th April 2008, for considerably more detail and analysis of this story.

WERE IS HE THE ANTI-CHRIST.I CAN NAME A WOMAN IN AMERICA WHO FOOLED ALL THE MEDIA AND PEOPLE'S PERPTION OF BEAUTY AND VIRTUES.

Oh no, not an anti-Hillary Clinton rant? No, nothing so mundane.

carolyn bessette.EVEN BEFORE SHE WAS DATING JOHNF.KENNEDY JR. HER BIRTHDAY WAS JAN.6,1966 AND HER INTENTION VRY MUCH LIKE THE GENE TAIRNEY CHARACTER IN THE MOVIE WERE SHE KILLS HER HUSBAND'S BROTHER AND AND UNBORN CHILD FOR SICK DEMONANIC PURPOSE VERSES THE FAULSE PERCEPTION OF GOOD. ALL THE WAY GOD GAVE SIGN OF THIS WOMAN MENTAL SICKNESS AND EVIL BEHAVIOR BEHIND AND INFRONT OF THE CAMERA.APOUN HER BEING ANNOUNCE JOHN'S WIFE SHE QUIKLY CHANGED HER HEIGHT AND WEIGHT FROM 5'9 TO 6'0 AND FROM A WAVE WEIGHT TO MORE 105 POUNDS.HER HAIR WAS NOT NATURALLY BLONDE BUT COLORED BLONDE .HER IMAGES CHANGED OVER THE YEARS NO FOR PHOTOGENIC PURPOSE BUT FOR A BETTER PUBLIC APPEAL WHILE SHE CHANGE HER POINTS OF HER PAST HISTORY OF BEING A DRUG ABUSER WHORE AND UNVIRTURIUOS IN HER PANTIES COSTANTLY SINNING IN HER LIFE. ARRANGING PEOPLE'S LIFE STYLE TO BETTER HR IMAGE AND YET BLEEDING HER VITIUM OF REALITY UNTIL THEY GET SO EMOTIONAL ABUSED AD PHYSICALLY THEY CAN'T SEE THAT SHE HAS A DEMON PERSONAL.WHY NO ONE SEES HER PLOTTING TO TAKE SOMEONE LIKE JOHN OUT OF THI WORLD BECAUSE SHE CAN'T HANDLE NOT CONTROLING HIM AND OTHERS IN THE LIGHT OF THE MEDIA. THUS TAKING SOMETHING SO SEMBLE AND ENLARGING INTO A BIG DEAL.TO INSURE HER DEMONATIC BEHAVIOR SEX LIFE AND SIN PRAYS SHE PRAYS IN HER EVERYDAY LIFE TO HURT PEOPLE FOR THEIR PERCEPTION OF GOD LOVE AND GOODESS.

In case you are confused, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. and died with him in a plane crash in 1999.

The collection, which Mr White estimates is worth nearly £7,000, was built up over a number of years but is to be cast aside because of his religious beliefs.

Dr Who and his materialistic obsession with it represents the greatest lie that Satan ever told according to Mr White...

He said: God delivered me from the evil that is Dr Who.

Don't offer too much now. We wouldn't want to reward him for his sinfulness now, would we?

Dr Who Tardis on sale on eBay—Wiltshire Times and Chippenham News, 21st March 2008.

He singled out the actor Sir Ian McKellen, who was given a New Year honour for services to gay rights, pointing out that Oscar Wilde was locked up only a century ago for homosexual acts...

He went on: In this New Year's honours list, I saw actor Ian McKellen being honoured for his work on behalf of homosexuals, when a century ago Oscar Wilde was locked up and put in jail. It's a very small group of people, but very active and organised — and extremely indulgent. The opposition know exactly what they're doing. We don't.

He also complains that pooves remember the time when a country led by a communicant member of the Roman Catholic Church decided to kill off minority groups.

The homosexual lobby has been extremely effective in aligning itself with minority groups.

“It is ever-present at the service each year for the Holocaust memorial, as if to create for themselves the image of a group of people under persecution.

Perhaps they get that impression because people like the bishop say hateful things like that? Or maybe, as an editorial in The Scotsman points out Between 1933 and 1945, 100,000 gay men were imprisoned by the Nazis' regime and 9,000 died in concentration camps. That is justification enough for gays to remember the Holocaust.

Catholic bishop hits out at 'gay conspiracy' to destroy Christianity—The Scotsman, 13th March 2008; Bishop's unhelpful comments—The Scotsman, 13th March 2008. See also Fury at bishop's gay 'persecution' claim—The Herald, 13th March 2008.

Cloth samples with fasteners and round pieces of metal were found in the mud near the Swedish capital, Stockholm...

But comparing them with figurines found at the site, they seem to have been worn as a metal bra.

The research at Birka also suggests that Viking women held bra fashion shows, but these were banned by prudish Christians.

Viking Women Had Bra Fashion Shows—The Daily Record, 28th February 2008.

Amazing moment the world's biggest Christ was struck by lightning—Daily Mail, 13th February 2008.

A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Glasgow accused Ms McKeever of perpetrating a medieval witch-hunt. He said: Catholic Truth is a tiny group on the fringe of the Church, utterly unrepresentative of mainstream Catholicism. They are a self-appointed team of heresy hunters, who have made a habit of bombarding the Vatican with ludicrous letters.

So, who to attack next? Why not the Order of Perpetual Indulgence? After all, they've only been active in Scotland since the early 1980s. So she fired off a series of missives to the contact address for the Sisters in her home city of Edinburgh. While all purporting to come from different people, the time-stamps show that it's unsophisticated spamming, with enough time between the messages to switch accounts. The messages were all written in the same voice too, and show plenty of evidence of her not having even looked at the site beyond the contact page. Fortunately for us, the Sister concerned has made use of the Forward feature of her e-mail client.

Subject: Order of Perpetual Indulgence
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:05:01 -0000
From: Catholic Truth <editor@catholictruthscotland.com>

Dear Sir / Madam,

I write to express my disquiet at your website. Since the "gay" community is perpetually (if you'll excuse the pun) complaining about being discriminated against, it seems incredible that you would mock another minority group in this way.

It should be noted that Roman Catholics are the largest faith group in Scotland and not a minority.

I would welcome your reassurance that you will raise, with your colleagues, the matter of the inappropriateness - to put it mildly - of your website. I have no doubt that if I or anyone else posted such an unashamedly mocking attack on the "gay" community, we would be brought to book.

This mail has presumably gone three times round the world already, given people's tendency to forward funny e-mail.

It will be of much interest to us to receive your reply informing us of the steps you intend to take to bring an end to this anti-Catholic website.

Looking at the website, I note that it makes absolutely no reference to Roman Catholicism at all. There's a vague mention of religion being one of the things which contributes to people feeling bad about who they are, but no mention of any actual religion or sect.

Kind regards.

Patricia McKeever

Editor

Catholic Truth

Message 2:

Subject: Concern
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:10:06 -0000
From: Catholic Truth <treasurer@catholictruthscotland.com>

I am writing with regard to your website "The Order of Indulgence" which I find most offensive.

One strike against: the name of the website is wrong. Patricia Elizabeth has clearly not even looked at it.

There is no question that if anyone posted a similarly insulting website making fun of homosexuals, they would be in trouble. Such is the oppression suffered by anyone who dares to criticise the "gay" lifestyle.

Oh look, Patricia Elizabeth also puts gay in scare quotes, just like Patricia.

The least that we expect is for all images of nuns and religious symbols to be removed from your site.

Hmm, the site contains precisely one out-of-copyright engraving of nuns, and absolutely no depiction of any religious symbols at all, unless red ribbons are religious now. The crosses have even been photoshopped out of the above engraving, presumably at the same time as the dodgy facial hair was added. But Patricia Elizabeth, having not seen the site, wouldn't know that. She's equally as unlikely to have looked at the photographs on the site and noticed that the Scottish Sisters don't wear any religious symbols on their habits (nor that half of them are GURLZ!)

I look forward to your reply.

Elizabeth

Treasurer

Catholic Truth

Message 3:

Subject: Complaint
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:23:30 +0000
From: Annette Mary

I have just visited your site and am horrified at the anti-Catholic bigotry thereon.

I'm still trying to work out how not mentioning any religion by name can be bigotry against one of them. Maybe my inability to understand this thinking is why I have such difficulty understanding religion in general. Perhaps Patricia Annette could explain?

What a disgrace. Every time I hear anyone talking about gaybashing or bullying or anti-gay-discrimination or whatever, I will talk about your website. Appalling.

E.A. McCabe,
Ayrshire

Message the fourth:

Subject: Your website
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:16:33 -0000
From: Catholic Truth <secretary@catholictruthscotland.com>

Your website - Order of Perpetual Indulgence - has been brought to my attention today. I am shocked at its content.

Clearly, "having a go" at the Catholic Church and Religious Life is par for the course - I searched in vain for some mention of other non-Christian religions. The Catholic Church is an easy target.

And I am still searching in vain for any mention of the Roman Catholic Church on the site.

I am very deeply offended at the contents of your website and write now to ask you to remove the offensive material without delay.

It is difficult to see how you could do this without deleting the current site and I believe that you should do this without delay.

Please confirm that you will, in fact, act to put an end to this anti-Catholic discrimination as soon as possible. Thank you.

The website notes that the Order is open to anyone, of any faith or none. Again, I am bewildered as to how this is discrimination, unless it's a lack of positive discrimination that is the issue. Again, maybe someone religious like Patricia Norah can explain.

Norah McGlame

Now there's an excellent invented name, nearly as good as some of the Sisters'!

Catholic Truth

For added entertainment, I know for a fact that the Sister to whom the missives were spammed is living the dreadful "gay lifestyle" which involves being in a monogamous marriage with a person of the opposite sex.

The tools that can be made in this pattern are runes of the cosmic energies. While these crocheted runes bear twelve of the most observed and documented energies, you are not limited to the confines of these chosen symbols or to the listed messages that I’ve associated with each of the energies. As you work with each symbol, you blend your conscious (studied) and subconscious (inherent) attributes with the traits of each rune. This blending creates (depending on your intention) a living magical essence that is attuned to you and your intent and / or a divinatory oracle that speaks the language of your unique heart and soul.

To make these runes, you will need; a size 7 steel crochet hook, size 10 crochet thread in the main color and in a complimentary color, large eye needle, cotton balls and optional fabric glue to further secure the thread ends. You can refine the materials list to include choices in thread colors and in herbs, oils and gemstones (that you can mix with or include with the cotton ball batting) to enhance your desired purposes or the traits of the particular cosmic energies.

The difference seems to be that these "runes" aren't runes at all, but astrological symbols.

If you like to crochet, but runes are really not your thing, maybe the Swirls of Stars Tarot Spread Cloth is more up your street?

The denizens of Prattle Towers prefer the patterns at the AntiCraft and are more likely to be found crocheting this Elder God.

Pratchett to open planetarium—Hampshire Chronicle, 5th February 2008.

C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts told the Herald the ad portrays a callous contempt for the sensibility of Catholics.

Perhaps it's not the nuns that the complainer finds erotic? The model's such a Muscle Mary, the only nuns who would fancy him in real life would be Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Naked-Man Ad Riles Hub Catholics—WCVB TV, 30th January 2008.

A passenger said the pilot was carried from the plane shouting and swearing, saying he wanted to talk to God....

He was very, very distraught. He was yelling loudly at times, he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

He was swearing and asking for God and very distressed. He basically said he wanted to talk to God.

Good job it wasn't a dark-skinned passenger yelling about his imaginary friend.

Pilot 'breakdown' diverts flight—BBC News, 30th January 2008.

The evangelical preacher put safety pins through his sons' lips, sliced their mouths with scalpel blades and squeezed the older boy's tongue with sharp pincers.

The court heard that the father used religion as his excuse for the cruelty:

Prosecutor Caroline Wigin had told the court the man, a self-styled preacher and former medical student, may have mutilated the boys as his interpretation of religious teaching.

He had told the children God had had his tongue cut off in the Bible.

The court is still considering further allegations against the parents, who cannot be named because it would identify the children.

Dad guilty of sons' scalpel torture—Bradford Telegraph and Argus, 23rd January 2008.