The Rev. Dale Coleman, who has quietly led St. George’s Episcopal Church in Belleville for two years, believes there are people at his former church in New Mexico “who want to destroy me.”
He said that a vendetta has followed him to Belleville that started over ideological differences involving homosexuals in the church but escalated into a series of personal attacks that he still faces in court, including that the married minister improperly spent church money on a girlfriend.
Coleman opened himself up to scrutiny by his former church by filing a lawsuit to force the church to pay $40,000 left unpaid on a $115,000 severance agreement.