clerical collar

The pastor, a 73-year-old Michigan native and non-denominational evangelical, does not wear a clerical collar and calls himself a Christian activist.

At the time of the 2014 incident, Quick was wearing a clerical collar, but unbeknownst to the Bustos aide, Quick was also a former employee of the Tea Party candidate running against Bustos.

Asked if he continued to wear a clerical collar, he again said he had not been given “any instructions about that.”

In police body-camera footage obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Lee can be seen wearing a clerical collar and sitting in a red sedan parked near Ms. Freeman’s suburban home on Dec. 15, 2020.

He took some flak online for wearing his clerical collar during one episode, something he said he did at the encouragement of the show’s producers and didn’t feel was all that important either way.