The Nation - News from March 12, 1985
A defiant Lutheran minister walked away from a church disciplinary hearing in Pittsburgh and shouted down his bishop after he was forbidden to record the proceedings. The Rev. D. Douglas Roth, 33, former pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in nearby Clairton, refused to face a 15-member panel called by Bishop Kenneth May, head of the regional Lutheran synod. May fired Roth in October over Roth’s repeated Sunday morning attacks on large corporations as sources of “evil” and the cause of Pittsburgh-area unemployment.
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