http://www.biblicalrecorder.org/cont...5achurch.shtml

Couldn't resist the pun in the headline, but I have two disparate thoughts on this. Assuming it isn't all a misunderstanding, as the pastor now claims, then:

1. It's a church, a private organization, and it has an absolute right to do this as long as it doesn't offend some bylaw of its parent denomination (or run afoul of IRS. Even then, it has a right to do it; it just might lose its tax-exempt status).

2. That said, what a terrible, destructive mixing of the political and the dlvine. The church will now be embroiled in and overshadowed by its politics -- weakening or even drowning out its religious message. It has a right to do so, but those strike me as misplaced priorities.

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Religion and government have always been inexorably linked. It is more public now because religion is in vogue.

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WWJD?

I once had a Baptist youth minister confiscate my daughter's CDs (including GASP Nirvana). After I threatened to call the police, he offered to give them back to me, but I "would have to be responsible for what it did to my daughter." Gee, imagine me being responsible for my daughter. Some Baptists truly give the entire church a bad name.

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How is this any different than:

Kerry said to be excommunicated

Los Angeles, Oct. 18, 2004 (CWNews.com) - A consultant to the Vatican has said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has incurred the penalty of excommunication from the Catholic Church.

The consultant made his statement in a highly unusual letter to Marc Balestrieri, a Los Angeles canon lawyer who formally sued John Kerry in ecclesiastical court for heresy.

Balestrieri, who launched his case earlier this year by filing a heresy complaint in Kerry's home archdiocese of Boston, told EWTN's "World Over" program on Friday that he had received an unusual, indirect communication from the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding the pro-abortion stance. "

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=32830


OR is it only "fashionable" to kick 'evangelicals around???

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The question is though, why didn't Kerry leave the Catholic church a long time ago? After all, birth control/abortion has always been one of the bedrocks of the Catholic faith.

I always thought one just about had to be against abortion to be Catholic. It seems to me that "pro-choice Catholic" is an oxymoron. But, Baptist? I don't think so.

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I don't know. How is it different?

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...revoked....

Preachers should stick to spreading the Word, and keep the politics OUT of the pulpit........

there have been no excommunication hearings for any politicians - Guiliani would be the first to go.


"After all, birth control/abortion has always been one of the bedrocks of the Catholic faith. "

yes, I can remember when Peter gave a sermon about condoms.....

"Preachers should stick to spreading the Word, and keep the politics OUT of the pulpit........"

Unless, of course, they are liberal. Then they can preach on politics all the wish. Just check out your local Unitarian church some Sunday morning. And we mustn't forget about exempting black churches from this rule, as they are favorite stops for demo candidates come election time. But that's different, huh?

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