In an effort to learn more about mayoral candidate Kenneth Whalum, Yas Meen and Monique Stevens visited the reverend’s New Olivet Baptist Church Sunday morning. But they claim the experience resulted verbal attacks and expulsion from the church.
“I had been having political debates with my partner about who to vote for for mayor. I said Whalum was the man to vote for, and she was going for Herenton,” Meen says. “We decided to go to [Whalum’s] church to see what he was all about.”
Meen says many in the congregation were giving them dirty looks as soon as they sat down. But she says the real trouble started when the women — who are both agnostic — opted out of a “sanctified dance” that supposedly involved congregants dancing in the aisles, laying on the floor to pray, and blowing kisses to God.