Faith-Based Intimidation
So it's come to this.
Pastor Chan Chandler of the East Waynesville North Carolina Baptist Church in North Carolina ejected nine members of his congregation because they did not vote for George Bush for President. 40 other congregants left his flock in protest.
Welcome to the perversion that is George Bush's vision of faith America. The $8 billion Faith-Based Initiative sanctions discrimination by its recipients while involving the federal government in the functions of religious groups. In 2004, the GOP essentially turned evangelical churches into a tax-free arm of the Republican Party. Judges are threatened, and likewise, exiled from their own houses of worship for their legal decisions. Religious leaders paint the President's opponents as waging hostile attacks "against people of faith." And in Kansas, a state school board emboldened by the Bush ascendancy seeks to ignore a century of scientific consensus on Evolution and proselytize Creationism in the public schools. The prodigal chickens, so to speak, are coming home to roost.
These are dark days indeed for the United States. But there are glimmers of hope. The overwhelming American backlash against the Republican leadership's interference in the Schiavo case is one signal. The growing condemnation of judicial intimidation is earning the far right new moderate enemies. Robertson, Dobson, Perkins and the rest of the American Taliban are beginning to pay the price for their over-reaching pride.
The wall between Church and State has been breached. It's not too late, though, to rebuild it.
This is amazing. What about separation of church and state? When did this church become an arm of the Bush campaign? There are some rules against this type of thing, right?
Some members of Congress have been trying to do away with that restriction, led by Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.). He has introduced a version of the Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act in every session of Congress since 2001. Although the bill has not passed, it continues to receive strong support from many conservative Christian groups.
With the link:
Some members of Congress have been trying to do away with that restriction, led by Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.). He has introduced a version of the Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act in every session of Congress since 2001. Although the bill has not passed, it continues to receive strong support from many conservative Christian groups.
With the link:
Some members of Congress have been trying to do away with that restriction, led by Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.). He has introduced a version of the Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act in every session of Congress since 2001. Although the bill has not passed, it continues to receive strong support from many conservative Christian groups.
Never let it be said that I'm a quitter. Loser, maybe.
http://www.biblicalrecorder.org/content/news/2005/5_6_2005/ne060505achurch.shtml
Never let it be said that I'm a quitter. Loser, maybe.
http://www.biblicalrecorder.org/content/news/2005/5_6_2005/ne060505achurch.shtml
This what you were trying for Fade? 😀
Church removes members for political views, deacon says
Never mind what the the Constitution said about the separation of church from state. Jesus made it amply clear in the Gospels that He wants His business well away from the state's.
That should have settled any questions, there and then.
If the wacko fundigelicals who profess to be Christian paid less attention to Leviticus and more attention to Christ's words, they'd know they were making Biblical-proportion asses of themselves. Honestly, if I were that damned stupid, I'd want to keep myself out of the news, y'know? But noooooOOOOOOooo, they don't care WHO knows how ignorant they really are.
How little they know or understand Jesus, yet have the brass chutzpah to call themselves Christian. God will have His revenge later.