See Something, Hear Something, Say Something

Edward Anthony
3 min readNov 4, 2021

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Post courtesy of cbc.ca.

Disclaimer: It has been nearly three years since I’ve been removed (thankfully) from that shithole called the Way of Yah Synagogue, so I’m not sure when this happened. This was told to me by a former member who left in recent years.

I know the saying is typically, “See something, say something,” but this is something I heard, and I had to speak out. I realize people (including children) can lie, but the way this was told to me, it’s difficult not to believe. A few months ago, I was told that one of the teenage members of that so-called synagogue at the time “came out of the closet,” which doesn’t surprise me because myself among a few other guys back when I was there viewed him as suspect from observing his actions and mannerisms.

Yesterday, I told even more disturbing information about this individual. It was said that he came on to some of the male teenagers, and these young men reported it to their narcissistic, juvenile pastor Tony Smith, who took it lightly and started making jokes about it, which is typical of him, and it’s one of the many issues I had with him when I was there. Like most negroes, everything is a laugh and a joke to him. As disturbing as that is, that’s not what I’m referring to specifically.

Apparently, this individual (the gay teen) was allowed to take a boy to the bathroom — why, I have no idea — and he proceeded to give the boy oral sex. The boy comes out of the bathroom telling some of the older guys something along the lines of: “He licked me! He licked me!” This is what finally took that egotistical bastard to take action and remove him from the congregation, but it seems that it took a boy to be violated by that flaming fruitcake for it to finally happen.

On a side note, aside from it being unnatural, this is one of the problems I have with people who choose live this lifestyle. Some of them can’t keep their preferences among those who still live same lifestyle as they do, they want to be aggressive and try to force themselves on people or try to convert people, so to speak.

Going back to when I was a member and before then, this was a man who preached so hard against homosexuals and homosexuality, and when it landed on his doorstep, he was passive as far as doing something about it, especially when he was told by others what this individual was doing beforehand, but he chose to make light of it.

I remember he would say things such as, “these are our kids” this, “these are our kids” that, and all of this happened under his watch. Mr. Bigshot, Mr. Ironfist. His congregation was supposed to be different from others, certain things he’s just not going to tolerate. Really? Now, this boy could be scarred for life because of his negligence.

You know, it’s funny — not hilarious funny, but ironic funny — I remember how he would go in on people who still remain in these religious organizations when they saw stuff like this or worse take place, and now, there are people who are saying the same thing about his dysfunctional organization because I don’t understand how people are aware of what’s going on, and still sit there. I’m not sure if the parent of this child is still there or not, but I definitely have to look at her sideways and question her intelligence if she’s there.

Another thing I find disturbing is that it seems as if this is being kept under wraps. This needs to be investigated, I don’t care how long ago it was. Keeping something like this inhouse isn’t going to fly.

I said this once before, and I’ll probably say it until I’m blue in the face: the more I hear about what’s going on in that place, the more I’m glad that I’m no longer there.

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