Church phone a hotline to sex, not heaven

CLARKTOWN, N.Y. (UPI) -- A homeless man rang up some trouble after he broke into a church to use a phone to call a sex hotline, police in a New York community said.

Clarkstown, N.Y., police said James Macnair may have strained the bounds of charity of the Elim Alliance Church when he used the phone for the less-than-holy conversations -- not once, but twice, New York television station WCBS reported Wednesday.

"He broke into the church in Valley Cottage to use the phone there to call a sex hotline," said Clarkstown Police Sgt. Harry Baumann.

Baumann said Macnair picked the lock and entered the church Friday, and was asked to leave by the church treasurer, who didn't call the police.

On Monday, when the church treasurer stopped by again, she found Macnair again in the church and again on the phone. This time, though she called the police.

"My understanding is he's homeless, he doesn't have a phone," said Baumann. "This is the place that he found a phone."


Copyright 2007 by United Press International