More Pastor Problems
Oct. 1st, 2008 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
draggonlaadyAt least this time, they aren't pastors specifically close to any of the candidates. But that doesn't stop them from coming across with the crazy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802365.html
The point of this, is that there's a group of pastors trying to get in trouble so they can start a (high-profile; if they weren't doing this for the attention, they'd just start an initiative, right?) legal action to overturn the ban on tax-exempt church officials telling their congregations how to vote. That whole separation of church and state thing? Apparently not important. I mean, I guess I can see a point about how just because the state can't tell you how to worship doesn't mean your church can't tell you who to vote for. But I do seriously think that if places are going to get wound up in politics, it should be the same for them as for any other business; pay your taxes, record all your donations, etc.
I found this an amusingly horrid mangling of a (much abused) quote:
"We want people when you prick them, they bleed the word of God," Rev. Ron Johnson Jr. said.
And reading further, I think I'd be insulted if I was one of this man's parishioners. Apparently, they're all too oblivious and/or stupid to cope with this world.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802365.html
CROWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 28 -- Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, an evangelical Christian minister told his congregation Sunday that voting for Sen. Barack Obama would be evidence of "severe moral schizophrenia."
The point of this, is that there's a group of pastors trying to get in trouble so they can start a (high-profile; if they weren't doing this for the attention, they'd just start an initiative, right?) legal action to overturn the ban on tax-exempt church officials telling their congregations how to vote. That whole separation of church and state thing? Apparently not important. I mean, I guess I can see a point about how just because the state can't tell you how to worship doesn't mean your church can't tell you who to vote for. But I do seriously think that if places are going to get wound up in politics, it should be the same for them as for any other business; pay your taxes, record all your donations, etc.
I found this an amusingly horrid mangling of a (much abused) quote:
"We want people when you prick them, they bleed the word of God," Rev. Ron Johnson Jr. said.
And reading further, I think I'd be insulted if I was one of this man's parishioners. Apparently, they're all too oblivious and/or stupid to cope with this world.
Asked why he felt the need to discuss the candidates by name and to be explicit in rejecting Obama and his pro-choice views, Johnson said he must connect the dots because he is not sure that all members of his congregation can do so on their own.
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