Private eyes listen to support group secrets

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

When a new couple arrived at Southside Christian Fellowship Church in August 2005, members welcomed them with open arms.

Soon, the new couple talked their way into private group support sessions in the Stockbridge home of church member Ken King.

During the private talks, church members confessed abortions, sexual orientation issues, drug addictions and other dark secrets.

No one knew the couple wasn't actually interested in joining the church. Instead, they were private investigators hoping two church members, Bill and Leandra Pitts, would spill something they could use to discredit the pair in an ongoing lawsuit over a traffic accident.



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It would seem that Progressive Insurance isn't so progressive after all.

infrequently. We live in a competitive society that's always deliberately trying to trip us up. That this happened in a church members setting is, from my view at least, irrelevant. Anyone who believes there is privacy anywhere with others seems naive, even privacy alone in one's bathroom seems suspect given the current level of technology.

Perhaps the failure to accord respect to the privacy of others has something to do with our corporatist culture, or perhaps it's simply part of being human with a cooperative nature that other competitive humans take advantage of, I've wondered about this for years.

Good luck to this lawyer. If he wins the case for his clients, there will be one minor exception to the law, that will likely be flaunted by those who don't give a damn.

"There is no such thing as a secret between two people"

- Once shared, it's no secret.

That said, anyone with the competitive impulse will employ Sun-Tzu's tactics... once they learn them.

...that you would say in a deposition.

Seems they should to protect the privacy of everyone concerned, and those should be legally binding.