Prominent SBC leader charged with lewd act: Executive committee member resigns
A prominent Oklahoma minister and member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee was charged January 11 with offering to engage in a lewd act.
Lonnie Latham, 60, resigned as pastor of the 1,500-member South Tulsa Baptist Church and as a member of the denomination’s top administrative body two days after he was arrested and jailed January 3. He was alleged to have invited a male undercover Oklahoma City police officer to his hotel room for sex.