Has the Internet made marriage obsolete? The answer seemed to be "yes" according to one minister. Until his own demons were exposed, The Rev. Cedric Miller recently told married leaders of his church to delete their Facebook accounts or to resign their posts. Rev. Miller described Facebook as a portal to infidelity as the justification for his demand. Then the news came out that the minister had demons of his own to deal with.
Rev. Miller might have felt guilt over a three-way sexual relationship he and his wife engaged in with a male church assistant. Facebook had little to do with this sexual indiscretion since Miller had to confirm the matter based on testimony he provided in a 2003 criminal case. Facebook was only a rumor on the Harvard campus in 2003, and the social network could not be accessed by non-college students at that time.
The anti-Facebook stance gained Miller and his church national attention, but once the light was directed on the minister, cracks in his image began to emerge. Miller claimed that his stance occurred due to the amount of marriage counseling that he had to perform due to sexual relationships outside of marriage formed via Facebook.
The leader of the Living Word Christian Fellowship Church told leaders that Facebook caused former lovers to contact each other and often past feeling became rekindled. Miller told 50 members of his church to give up their Facebook accounts based on his belief that the site led to infidelity. While Miller’s stance against Facebook injures his church’s chance of becoming one of a top affiliate programs for the website it keeps, it brought a potentially embarrassing episode back into the light.
Miller testified in the 2003 case that he was often present as his wife carried out an affair with an assistant. The assistant’s wife would also join in from time to time.
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