Preacher & Mayor Ends Own Life After Double-Life On Trans Porn Site Exposed

His friends and family knew him as Bubba, Reverund, or Mayor. But online, he was known as ‘Brittini Blaire’.

Bubba Copeland was a husband, the father of three, a grocery store owner, a Baptist Minister, and the mayor of Smith’s Station, Alabama.

For his online persona, ‘Brittini Blaire’, he wore makeup and dressed in womens’ clothing. He also wrote ‘trans porn erotic fiction’ including one piece referenced by the website that ‘outed’ him in which the male protagonist stalked a local businesswoman, murdered her, and assumed her identity.

The photos of his alter-ego included pictures of him wearing women’s underwear.

On Wednesday Nov 1, the day the news broke, he addressed his church:

‘The article is not who or what I am […] ‘I apologize for any embarrassment caused by my private and personal life that has become public. This will not cause my life to change. This will not waiver my devotion to my family, serving my city, serving my church,’ Copeland said.
[…] During a sermon on Wednesday prior to his death, Copeland apologized to his flock and told them his wife was aware of his activity.

‘Yes, I have taken pictures with my wife in the privacy of our home in an attempt at humor because I know I’m not a handsome man or a beautiful woman either,’ Copeland said. — DailyMail

Police responded to a request for a wellness check, which led to what was described as a low-speed pursuit.  It was after this pursuit that Bubba shot himself with a handgun.

The unfortunate part of this story, however creepy his personal life may have been, is the ending. It’s the fact that as a minister of the gospel he had, or should have had, the solution to his own problem.

Unfortunately for him, it was only after his private life became public that it became (for him) a problem requiring action.

If Bubba fully comprehended the basics of the Christian message of Good News, he could have seen where he himself would fit into this story.

Copeland wouldn’t be the first person in history to be confronted with the nature of his own sin, even among ordained ministers. He wouldn’t be the first person to have a secret double-life exposed — the secret isn’t always sexual in nature, it can just as easily be some other sin.

He was embarrassed by being publicly ‘outed’, as can be seen by what was said the last time he addressed his church.

The mistake we make is in thinking shame is an unnatural response. It is a natural and healthy response in the right circumstance.

We don’t think something has gone horribly wrong with us when we feel hunger. No. It’s just an indication we’ve gone too long without eating and need to address that need.

We don’t freak out when we feel pain. No. We give attention to the part of the body that is the source of the pain. There is usually some sort of an injury, or a source of physical discomfort that need to be tended to.

In the same way, shame — if rightly calibrated — can a useful indicator for the health of your inner self and bring attention to parts of our life that are out of alignment. It’s like a trouble light on the dashboard of your soul.

God is often portrayed as some kind of a sadistic judge who takes pleasure in dishing out punishment. If that’s who He really was, we would want hope our sins could stay secret forever.

But that’s not who He is. It’s completely backward. He already knows our most debased thoughts and desires. All of them. And he loves us anyway. He died for us to take the consequences of OUR guilt on His shoulders… DESPITE our deepest darkest secrets.

The gospel call isn’t to stand before Him as guilty men and women so we can be destroyed, it’s to come to Him and be set free of the shackles of sin we’ve bound ourselves with so we can enter into a new kind of life He has invited us to.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. — 1 Cor 6

The problem is, we have to choose. We can have Christ, redemption, forgiveness, and the freedom he promises us, OR we can have the life he calls us to leave behind.

Regret isn’t enough. Judas Iscariot felt regret after the betrayal, and even returned the thirty pieces of silver after the betrayal. He went looking for redemption from the religious leaders who gave him the blood money in the first place.

Christ himself said at the last supper that the eternal fate Judas would soon face was about as bad as it gets.

Judas felt the shame, but he didn’t go to the one place that could have solved the problem that shame pointed to.

Our hope for our readers is that we recognize that trouble light for what it is, and take that opportunity to face those parts of us that need fixing, and call for help from the One who can help us fix them.

If you want to know more about what that life looks like, this book is exactly what the doctor ordered.

Lionhearted: Making Young Christian Males Rowdy Biblical Men

Dear young Christian male, this book you’re about to read is meant to challenge you to your very core. Its intent is not to make you feel warm and fuzzy. Some of the chapters will upset you greatly, especially if you’re a dandy who was raised with kid gloves by a helicopter mommy.

That said, in addition to the holy introspection contained herein, this book will also shoot adrenaline into your soul. It’ll push you to be a Godly risk taker and earth shaker. A veritable Rebel With A Cause just like the Captain of Our Salvation, the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you want a feel-good book that tickles your ears and morphs you into a little Christian popinjay, this tome ain’t for you. You should put this book down and walk away from it immediately. However, if, young man, if … your motto is to give God your utmost for His highest, and you wanna live a life worthy of Christ’s death, then this book will be grist for your mill.

Get your copy of Lionhearted: Making Young Christian Males Rowdy Biblical Men TODAY!