Georgia Church Pastor Fathers Brothers wife’s Son

Senior pastor of Cathedral at Chapel Hill D.E. Paulk, rear, stands with wife Brandi as they are pictured in their home Friday Nov. 9, 2007, in Marietta, Ga. DNA tests reveal that Bishop Earl Paulk, D.E’s uncle and the church’s founder, who has been plagued with sexual lawsuits, is actually D.E.’s biological father. (AP Photo/John Amis)

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her.

Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk’s family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church a few Sundays ago and revealed the secret exposed by a recent court-ordered paternity test.

In truth, this is not the first - or even the second - sex scandal to engulf Paulk and the independent, charismatic church. But this time, he could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair.

The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk’s nephew.

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