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"The Bernalillo County Sheriff said he's no longer welcome at his place of worship.\u201CIt's taken a toll on my entire family. We've been in that church for 10 years,\u201D Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston said.\u00A0Houston said some elders at Legacy Church made that very clear during a meeting this week.Houston said the ousting came after a Facebook post last week. The sheriff wrote on his page there was a \u201Cmovement\u201D within the church to unseat him as sheriff. He called it a betrayal.The 20,000-person church is influential and supported the sheriff in the last election. Last week, after the posting became public, Target 7 spoke to Legacy Church Pastor Steve Smotherman about it.\u201CWell, I was shocked,\u201D Smotherman said. \u201CI was shocked with what Dan Houston put on his Facebook.\u201DThat said, Smotherman said he indeed was no longer supporting the sheriff in his bid for reelection.After that, the sheriff said church elders met with him and asked him to comply with three requested actions, before he\u2019d be able to come back to church. He said he wouldn\u2019t agree with one of those requests and everything fell apart.\u201CWell, that\u2019s really not what was said. The issue was I needed to comply with the requests they were making of me, or I could not come back. I mean, that was clear,\u201D Houston said.Houston refused to reveal what those requests were.Target 7 asked the sheriff if he regrets writing those words and putting them on the internet?\u201CThat\u2019s a hard question for me to answer,\u201D he said after seconds of silence. \u201CIf it has offended people and hurt the church, I do, because that was not my intention.\u201DNow the sheriff\u2019s finding a new place to pray, but said he\u2019s not worried about what this could mean for his political career. He still plans to run for sheriff again, believing some at the church and the public still support him.VIDEO:\u00A0Bernalillo County Sheriff no longer part of Legacy Church"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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