Reverend Rusty Chatfield, whose son, Republican former Michigan state House Speaker Lee Chatfield, is in serious trouble after being accused of a decade plus-long sexually abusive relationship with a female former student at the Christian school Rusty founded and Lee taught at – a woman who is now married to Rusty’s other son Aaron. “We are in certain circumstances, as all of you know, which I’m not going to refer to specifically…we are in the spotlight,” says Reverend Rusty in the fiery sermon of a man who knows deep down in his sinful heart that he’s fucked.
“You can’t believe everything you read in the newspaper, on the internet… You should know what I’m talking about… truth will come forward. Parts of things are true but parts are not true. The enemy is always lying, exaggerating, distorting. Some truth and some no truth.” Really fucked. Remember all of this disgrace happened at a school he founded, in a church he ran, in his family.
Michigan politics writer Zach Gorchow has an excellent breakdown of the scandal here.