08-03-05
Newport, TN - The Hilltop Baptist Church is in the news again.  The pastor and his wife are going through what is considered by some a 'difficult' divorce.  We were monitoring the scanner Wednesday evening and heard the latest developments.

Lifestar Air Ambulance had been dispatched to bring the wife in to the University of Tennessee Emergency Room following a car crash as she ran from her church.  Radio traffic indicated that the police were searching for her because of a shooting at the church.

The news later broke on local TV.  During the church's Wednesday evening services Mrs. Jannet Compton is alleged to have attempted pastorcide on her soon-to-be ex-husband.  The good reverend and his flock were unhurt as his assailant only succeeded in plugging the pulpit.

The name of the church seemed somehow familiar to The Home's newsroom staff and we started digging through the files.

Cowabunga, dude, there it is.

WATE-TV and the Knoxville News-Sentinel ran stories about this bunch back when we lost Pope John Paul II in 2005.  They displayed this on their church sign reminding us that the Hilltop Baptists have little, if any, respect for the Catholic Church.

But who will save us from the Baptists?