Alabama Pastor Prayed for Wife’s Death — So He Could Be
with His Younger boyfriend
A married Alabama pastor was arrested and charged with
murdering his wife then fleeing to Europe to be with his much younger
boyfriend.
According to the NY Daily News, Richard Shahan prayed for
his wife’s early death in emails he sent to his boyfriend in Europe.
Shahan’s wife, Karen Louise Shahan, discovered Shahan’s
double life as a down low homosexual. But rather than leave him, she remained
by his side like a good wife would.
A God fearing woman, Karen Shahan wrote in an email about
the ultimatum she gave to her husband:
“I told him that he cannot keep both lives. That he will
have to lose one of them,” Karen Louise Shahan wrote, according to the
documents obtained by Al.com. “I said that if he was having any interactions
that were not right before God that he should go to God and be completely
honest with him because he knows anyway.
I told him that God will reveal it to
me. I told him that any texting or gmailing that does not bring glory to God
has to go…”
Shahan complained bitterly about his wife in an email to
his male lover.
“There is only one way I could become legally ‘single’
and I have to wait until God grants me that gift,” Shahan wrote in an email.
“It will come; the woman I live with is slowly killing herself — she is
diabetic and refuses to take care of herself physically.”
Shahan noted that his wife’s mother died of diabetes. But
Karen Shahan’s death from diabetes didn’t come soon enough for Shahan.
So I pray and wait.” Shahan wrote. “It will happen in
God’s timing.”
Shahan was interrogated by police after his wife was
found stabbed to death in 2013. The wayward minister was arrested on New Year’s
Eve 2013 as he tried to board a flight to Germany to be with his boyfriend.
Police say Shahan planned the trip to Germany months in
advance, but his lawyer’s said it was just a mission trip.
Shahan’s trial is expected to begin in 2016. His church
has cut ties with him.
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