By Lynn

    I need to go back and do a tally. New York has been trying hard to get into the competition with Florida, Georgia and Texas for states that are able to produce the most rogue and false ministers. 

“Pastor” Loux, are you too cheap to rent a hotel or motel room? Step on up on HickTown’s hotseat and explain the following to us:

a. Why were you engaging in sinful behavior out in the woods with a stranger?

b. Why were you  engaged in public lewdness with a man?

c. Are you at all concerned about your behavior causing you to catch a deadly disease?

Again, are you too cheap to get a hotel room? Why are you hanging around in the woods? Your butt must be tainted with mosquito bites. Gee!

State Police said the pastor of an Albany County church who also works as a prison chaplain at Washington Correctional Facility was one of two men arrested Saturday on charges they were having sexual contact at a Northway rest area in Bolton on Saturday.

Joseph A. Loux Jr., 63, of Hannacroix, and Eugene F. Barnaby, 34, of Thurman were each charged with public lewdness, a misdemeanor, after trooper Edward Stannard witnessed them having sexual contact with one another at a rest area located off the southbound lanes between exits 23 and 24.

Loux told police he was pastor of Congregational Christian Church of Ravena and a chaplain in the prison system.

Loux was suspended without pay from his $59,128-a-year post on Tuesday by the state Department of Correctional Services, and the department plans to seek his dismissal, said department spokeswoman Linda Foglia. He has been a prison chaplain since 2005.

Loux’s status with the church could not be determined Tuesday.

He and Barnaby were arrested shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday, after Stannard witnessed them having a sexual encounter in woods at the rest area.

The rest area, as well as a nearby one in the northbound lanes, has long been a problem spot for police because of men congregating there to have sex.

Both Loux and Barnaby admitted to police they were having sex, according to court records, apparently after having randomly met there. But each portrayed the other as the aggressor, according to statements they gave Stannard and State Police Investigator D.J. Mosher.

Loux did not say why he was in northern Warren County.

“I admitted to the trooper I was part of a sexual act at the rest area,” Loux was quoted as saying. “I am sorry that I yielded to this.”

Barnaby, however, told police the other man approached him and asked him to perform a sex act, according to court records. He is quoted as telling police that he ended the encounter when the other man became too aggressive.

“I decided to get out of there, because it wasn’t doing nothing for me,” Barnaby is quoted as saying.

Barnaby also told police he goes to the rest area once a week to “watch other guys” have sex.

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Hat tip to Evangelist ET who keeps us updated on rogue and false ministers