Small town mayor and preacher Is DEAD after being outed for cross-dressing by Alabamian RWNJs

Sad story.

Others are still hashtag unbothered after committing serious crimes

Bubba looks better cross-dressing. I wouldn't have expected it.

Definitely an Alabama 8 in drag. RIP.

Where does it say you can't cross dress in the Bible?

Jesus wore a dress.

This is actually really sad, it's too bad he felt so much shame in being himself.

He felt shame because the hateful “bile-bull” these talibangelical freaks constantly thump tells them they should persecute anyone who isn’t a talibangelical piece of shit like them.

These “bile bull” beaters kill.

I just glanced at the photo and thought that was his wife!

He really rocks that Flintstone top.

Some of the comments on this twitter thread are depressing

The publication that outed him is a right-wing site with ties to Steve Bannon and Breitbart

Are you sure he wasn't just going as Amy Schumer for Halloween?

Looks like it's time for a sequel to "The Phenix City Story."

Sad.

Not mentioned anywhere is that there are SW Georgia towns that have a tradition of men cross dressing one weekend a year. Drag seems somehow baked into Southern culture. There used to be a small town drag circuit (don't kn know if it still exists) as well as venues in bigger places like Atlanta or even small cities like Savannah.

Sorry for making the duplicate thread - I tried doing google searches too. Sad story. Something about the way he tried to explain it away and then begged them not to run the story is so sad. From one article I read he had no history of homophobic or bigoted remarks either.

Could his family possibly sue? This is awful.

The closet kills. Always.

Can the wig be donated to Britney?

He should not have killed himself. His fetish was harmless

Sue for what? He's a pastor who upholds a religion that is anti gay/anti drag and no one forced him to kill himself, he did that on his own.

And he did it because his hypocrisy was being exposed. Stop pandering to conservatives and you won't be embarrassed when you do something they consider "unbiblical"

How is the desire to see a Brietbart/Bannon affiliated website sued out of existence pandering?

RWNJs? Help me recognize these initials please?

The preacher in question was pandering to conservatives R24. Don't be ignorant.

He should have been heading a gay org, not hiding behind Christianity.

R3- Ken Burns looks so TRANS ⚧

The name of his production company for the documentaries shown on public television should be called Bearded 🧔‍♀️ Lady Productions

I am so adopting the phrase unbiblical behaviour for use in my own life. Perhaps not in the way I read it in the news article, but it fucking rocks.

I can't be gleeful over anyone killing themselves.

R29 not even trump?

I'm not celebrating either. It is sad. But we've got a Republican pastor from the former Confederacy caught with his Spanx up and he's dead. Usually you bitches crow over shit like this and slam compassion.

You think you know a place.

Look at the bright side. At least he won't be posting those goddam recipes here anymore.

R27 He definitely looks trans or like a butch dyke.

I might make an exception for Dump R30.

I don't understand how anyone didn't look at this guy and not see a huge flamer. Are the xtians blind and deaf or do they see it deep down and just ignore it?

There’s a bit more to it though.

Allegedly and according to 1819:

“One meme featured a local brother and sister, at least one of which is a minor, with the caption," “Take the shots, get implants, become the whore.'"The meme was designed to give the impression that the young boy had transitioned into a young girl.”

R13: "Alabama mayor and pastor Bubba Copeland commits suicide just days after a conservative news outlet with close ties to Steve Bannon and Breitbart published private photos of him wearing women’s clothing."

Private? Really? He CHOSE to plaster these photos (and his misogynistic "erotica") all over the internet, while simultaneously leading a conservative, Evangelical church; spreading anti-gay and anti-woman propaganda; and supporting Donald Trump. Yet you go to some of those Twitter posts and look at the replies, and it's self-proclaimed "liberals" weeping and wringing their hands about how "oppressed" this white, heterosexual male was. BULLSHIT.

The liberals are handwringing and the kkkons are fapping

One of his erotic stories used the name of a real life businesswoman in his town as well as the name of her business. The premise of the story was that he was going to stalk and kill this woman then assume her identity.

He used photos of local residents including minors to make explicit memes.

R39 Yes, I came to say that. I don't feel bad for this guy at all. I feel bad for the fucking businesswoman who he was writing stories about killing and taking over her life. Yet another disusting AGP skinwalker who wants to wear women. Tough shit. You should check out his shittily written story about killing and taking over the woman's life. Bad prose + tacky clothes = unforgivable

R25 Right-Wing Nutjobs

[quote]R6: Where does it say you can't cross dress in the Bible?

Deuteronomy 22:5: A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Iron Age values.

In the 1950s-1970s, evangelical fundamentalist churches completely lost their goddamned minds over women wearing slacks.

[quote]In the 1950s-1970s, evangelical fundamentalist churches completely lost their goddamned minds over women wearing slacks.

What about hostess pants?

Palazzo pants are unisex, no?

Do you remember the period of time, TVotN? 𝐴𝑛𝑦 pants, period.

Some churches are still that way, though it's now mostly confined to the sorts of congregations who thrive on clashing with multiple social mores (i.e. Oneness churches, snake handlers, Klan churches, etc.)

"Fantasizing" about killing someone isn't a harmless fetish, it is a terrorist threat

Did this dude honestly think that he could put this shit on the interwebs and NOBODY WOULD FIND OUT?

Dude.

He didn’t count on RWNJs publish articles repeatedly, all intended to humiliate him to the maximum extent possible.

What incentivized Bannon and Brightbatshit to pursue this story

Imagine all the unanswered questions his wife and kids will grapple with for the rest of their lives, including how he settled on "Brittini" as the spelling of his online persona's name.

Humiliation for its own sake.

Vicki Lawrence needs to do a song about this.

"This will not cause my life to change."

Umm...

And you bitches were hard on me!

The daily entrails has posted this incident as front page newsworthy. The site 1829 is referenced as a source. I have blocked 1819 from my feed

Don't most Christians live in 1819?

Alabamians do!

[quote]I just glanced at the photo and thought that was his wife!

He looked a lot like his wife when he was in drag. It's uncanny.

Scroll down to see a picture of his wife.

She designed his look!

Quite big tits!

He was was wearing his wife’s leopard print sweater in one of the pics

He wore it better and looked more attractive as a female

He needed to blend that contouring just a bit.

R23, it's Breitbart-connected conservatives who exposed him. They don't care about "hypocrisy"....they just hate people who are different

R40, he deserves to die because he wrote fiction? Should people who write murder mysteries be driven to suicide as well?

R37 - his social media was set to private, which kinda disproves that this stuff was "plastered all over the internet"

Was he gay or just a tranvestite? Hey, instead of dying- just move out of Podunk and get a life. Never let the Deplorables win.

So those stories he wrote are just the ones that were found.

This guy did a lot more stuff - online and probably in real life.

All the while, supporting rabidly anti-gay politicians and most likely supporting white supremacists in Alabama.

I don't understand how ANY of you can have compassion for this man. I don't support any closeted gay men who inflict pain on others because of it.

For all we know, he read this site.

R67, once again, the website that outed him was run by right-wingers. So you're the one siding with right-wingers! I bet the guys running this site are white supremacists.

All the while, supporting rabidly anti-gay politicians and most likely supporting white supremacists in Alabama. —where when how? Tell us

If you can read this please leave Alabama now.

I will never understand Christians. Their god is a petty, nasty, small-minded bigot who couldn’t deal with a human being making a CHANGE OF CLOTHING??

This is the same entity that created a bottom fish that chooses on which side of its body it wants to lie and then one of its eyes migrates across its head to the side that can look up.

This is the same entity that created on the planet Jupiter a storm that is three three times larger than the planet earth and we call it the Great Red Spot.

THAT entity loses its shit because some guy wore clothing designed for women?????

Why did he have to die though? Oh Alabama

His Reddit posts were not set to private. That’s public domain.

That’s like someone posting nudes on Twitter and then getting mad when people find them.

They were posted under an alias

[quote]he deserves to die because he wrote fiction? Should people who write murder mysteries be driven to suicide as well?

Writing murder mysteries is not the same about fantasizing about murdering your neighbor so you can take over her life.

I'm sure if you asked the woman in question, she wouldn't regard it as harmless.

R76, she wouldn't have even known about it if a right-wing site hadn't outed this guy.

I finally figured out what RWNJ stand for

Sorry wrong link lol.

Although the merch looks cool.

Did you not reas thread—that acronym was identified hours ago

Here is the reporters email

craig.monger@1819news.com

Can the obvious trannies on this thread STFU? This guy was a creep who preached hate against his own people and got outed by the very people he pandered to/kissed ass.

So then he's so upset about being exposed that he kills himself? Big fucking deal, and good riddance

R77 live by conservatives, die by conservatives.

Not a reporter, a magat scum

He was 61 I think the wife is 36/37.

R82 is probably the conservative who wrote the article.

Can you prove that he preached hate against anyone?

This is what happens when men think they are women. This idiot posted his shit all over social media because he GOT OFF ON IT. It's autogynephilia at its finest. If it was just a private hobby, it would have been just that...private. But instead he decided to go online and get attention. Not only that, but he didn't consider how this might affect his family or his church.

I think it's sad he killed himself instead of just choosing to be himself but when you're this much of an idiot, you pretty much doom yourself.

R87, his social media was set to private. Which kind of backs up the fact that he saw this as a private hobby.

Remember when right-wingers pretended to be outraged by Peter Thiel being "outed" by Gawker?

But it's okay to out a small town preacher?!!!

One more down, 74 million to go...

RIP, Florence Linnethea "Brittini" Copeland.

He kind of looked like a country frau version of traci turnblad.

RIP.

In this day and age...so fucking ridiculous!

can i have his stuff?

Another Phenix City Story

His awful story ends with him throwing the woman overboard on a ship and then taking her place in an 80's bar to the strains of "Purple Rain". I can't...He also mentions her petite frame sliding into bed with her husband reaching into his boxers for his "magic stick". Jfc.

Tots and pears.

He looked better than some women from Alabama.

The women's prayer group is having a difficult time trying to decide how to divvy up the pastor's frocks. Knives and one handgun were drawn at the parsonage.

He would have lived a much better life if he weren't a closeted self-hating Republican hypocrite.

And now three children don't have a mother.

A crossdressing, fetishistic fat Southern Baptist mother.

This is the reporter, Craig Monger. What do you think?

Will their be time to find a masculine teddy for him to wear?

I still feel bad but now that I’ve seen the specifics it seems like he was in to some pretty fucked stuff. The lesson here is don’t broadcast your strangest sexual fantasies and needs with pictures of your face attached to the public. Certainly the right wing media machine that put this story out has an interest in associating the most shocking and perverse individuals with homosexuals in general. So fuck that publication and hopefully his family considers a lawsuit.

What could they sue for where they had any kind of chance to get some kind of settlement. Discovery would be a nightmare.

He looks so cute and happy in the r1 photo!

How could anyone in the town not know or suspect he's gay?

The whole article was pointless and unnecessary

I think people have a soft spot for him because even though he was a closet case his makeup skills were pretty good. He actually turned himself into a pretty women and seemed happy to be one.

^ I mean he padded up and everything.

AL A BAMA AHH AHHHH AHHHH AHHHH 🎶

That’s a rough looking tranny.

Coild someone please contact R9’s psychiatric care team and have them pick her up? She’s drunk again and seething over her childhood Catechism days .

"How could anyone in the town not know or suspect he's gay?"

Yes, gay men stalk women and threaten to murder them ALL THE TIME. That's totally not something a rabidly fetishistic straight man would do.

Just to get this straight--

Republican conservative anti-gay Baptist preacher is A-OK.

Cross dressing murder fantasist who posts pics of local teenagers in said sex fantasies is A-OK.

But conservative group who outs fellow conservative who happens to be a Buffalo Bill wannabe is evil scum who should be sued?

This site is flooded with tranny freaks at this point.

R113 has never seen Silence of the Lambs

R113, he wasn't stalking anybody. Writing fiction is not stalking.

R116 he used local minor kids in the memes he would make where he would caption them with “Get the implants become a whore”. 1819 has the evidence to back that up even if it is a fascist right wing site.

^ Donald Trump peeped on Miss Teen USA contestants and Republicans don't care

I am sure if the public was privy to the actual video and it wasn't just hearsay R118, I am sure there would be an uproar.

R116, he used her real name and said he wanted to kill her and assume her identity. If someone did that to you, would you consider it "fiction"? Or would you be contacting law enforcement and a good attorney?

I hate to break it to you, r120, but writing fiction is not against the law. This woman wouldn't have even known about those stories if he hadn't been outed by right-wingers

R119, he was found liable for rape in a court of law.

This man was found liable for anything

R115 doesn't understand what fiction is.

No. I would consider this an active threat and arm myself accordingly.

The worst part is not that he used pics of minor kids in his trash memes, he also used ridiculous names. Shyna?

R121 doesn't understand that fanning the flames of violent fantasies is one of the first steps to actually committing them and it's definitely something a burgeoning stalker would do. It's not just harmless "fiction."

I am not saying the was actually going to skin her. But I could totally see him stalking her, abducting her to "get to know her better," then bludgeoning her when she tried to get away to keep his secret safe. You take such writings just as seriously as you would a kid writing some "fiction" in his journal about how he wants to shoot up his school with a list of actual names he wants to target.

Well adjusted people do not sit down and put pen to paper to write about how they are going to kill their neighbors and assume their identities. The writings are indicative of a very dark fantasy life and could be used as evidence in a court of law to demonstrate intent. It's better he was exposed when he was than after they are digging up her body and discovering her Chicos in his shed. And the fact that he took his own life over it could show how deep-seated these fantasies were and the shame he had over how much they had taken a hold him. Most people aren't killing themselves just over pictures popping up of them in a wig, torpedo tits and a cheap outfit.

Shyna with the fat vagina.

I had a neighbor who grew up in Arkansas and grew up in a church where women couldn't wear pants. She said she'd wear jeans underneath her skirt and take it off down the block. Her mom eventually relaxed and eventually quit going to that church after my neighbor was given a ride home by the "nice" youth pastor who tried to have sex with my neighbor when she was 15.

Wrong thread. How did that happen lol?

He was 49 not 62 and the daughters were step kids. He had an older and married his wife in 2018.

*older son.

Oh good, then his kids won't be too embarassed by his online atrocities. Fucking Shyna. Get the shot, be the whore.

Two other local women say he used their names and photos for his “fiction” stories.

whoa R134 The actual girl named Summerlin. I thought he made that up.

Why were they doing a welfare check on him? Why were the cops after him? Was he taking his shit to the next level? Someone called the cops to check on him and had a good reason, was it really because of this ridiculous fiction coming to light? Or was he getting ready to kidnap a Summerlin girl?

[quote]This guy did a lot more stuff - online and probably in real life.

There was definitely more shady shit to be revealed.

He and the husband were into "thrive", wasn't that the murdered wife's thing in Colorado---the one with the murdering husband who became a DL fave.

R138 Yes, Shan'ann (aka Shannon) Watts. But I think you're on the wrong thread. However, I bet thrive is methy and makes people kill, like Jeff Macdonald who was wacked out on speed when he killed his family. Now I kind of want some.