Outspoken Anti-Gay Pastor is Caught On Grindr … Dick Pics at 11

“We don’t tell a person born with tendencies to abuse alcohol to keep on giving in to his innate desires because he can’t help it” was a since-deleted comment Michigan Reverend Matthew Makela wrote in response to an anti-gay op-ed in a local paper. “I love making out Naked. And i top. Also love to cuddle” is what he wrote on Grindr. And just like in Jericho, those walls came a tumbling down.

Queerty, who first broke the story on Monday, adds today that his former employer, St. John’s Lutheran Church, has now deactivated their Facebook page and is urging their congregants not to read about this online to spare themselves the comments of “malicious posters who seek to do harm to the Makela family and to St. John’s.” For reinforcement, they have replaced their entire website with a letter from Senior Reverend Daniel Kempin who did make an admission of his own: “We are a church for sinners.” Amen to that.

This wasn’t just another “run-of-the-mill” anti-gay preacher with a fire and brimstone message that gays were the root of all evil: He went the extra step to instill the especially hateful, harmful notion that being gay, like addition, is a disease that can be treated. Oh physician, heal thyself – and when you get to hell – but sure and tell ‘Pastor’ Ted Haggard hello from the rest of us.

Although his now-removed bio contains no references to “oral and massage” …

His two children and his girlfriend wife did merit a mention on Grindr …

And since he now needs new gainful employment, he should probably leave this out if he applies to Drag Race next season …

But all is not lost … at least he made the local news …

Previously: North Dakota Rep. Randy Boehning Is Just the Latest Closeted GOP Dick Lover That Got Caught