Saturday, May 07, 2005

 

Democrats Voted Out of Baptist Church

I’m just an old armadillo and happened to find some old glyphs with a story why America as a country the symbols were not as clear as can be translated.

There was some strange references to a “Dr. Strange Love” (maybe Dr. First?) and a leader pounding his shoe saying “that he didn’t worry for the USA would destroy it’s self from with in”.


I'm a vet of the Korean war with lots of time of watching this human journey and this has come to the sadist of all.

For any to support a president and a vice president to quote with a "go ---- yourself." leadership has got to be a sick joke.

A joke if it were not the fact that all the Blood and lives of men to protect the freedom of this nation for over 200 years.

you sirs and madams will be a black mark on the REAL GOP the party of Lincoln, or a democratic party of like persuasion that you have come too this.

Not some Dr. First ‘right wing holier that thou Evangelic Fascist who hopes to purify America like Hitler. And a group greed of corporate president who believes he is a GOD that knows what’s best for all as told to him By Karl Rove along with the whispers of a press release Government.

What an insult to the patriots and the flag of this nation.

Just check this out

Democrats Voted Out of Baptist Church
The Associated Press

Saturday 07 May 2005

Waynesville, N.C. - Some in Pastor Chan Chandler's flock wish he had a little less zeal for the GOP. Members of the small East Waynesville Baptist Church say Chandler led an effort to kick out congregants who didn't support President Bush. Nine members were voted out at a Monday church meeting in this mountain town, about 120 miles west of Charlotte.

"He's the kind of pastor who says do it my way or get out," said Selma Morris, the church treasurer who was among those voted out. "He's real negative all the time."

Chandler didn't return a message left by The Associated Press at his home Friday, and several calls to the church went unanswered. He told WLOS-TV in Asheville that the actions were not politically motivated.

The station also reported that 40 others in the 100-member congregation resigned in protest after Monday's vote.

During the presidential election last year, Chandler told the congregation that anyone who planned to vote for Democratic Sen. John Kerry should either leave the church or repent, said former member Lorene Sutton.

Some church members left after Chandler made his ultimatum in October, Morris said.

George Bullard, associate executive director-treasurer for Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, told the Asheville Citizen-Times that a pastor has every right to disallow memberships if a church's bylaws allow for the pastor to establish criteria for membership.

"Membership is a local church issue," he said. "It is not something the state convention would enter into."

He added that the nine members were not legally terminated because Monday's meeting was supposed to be a deacons meeting, not a business meeting. They have a lawyer looking into the situation, he said.

The head of the North Carolina Democratic Party sharply criticized the pastor Friday, saying Chandler jeopardized his church's tax-free status by openly supporting a candidate for president.

"If these reports are true, this minister is not only acting extremely inappropriately by injecting partisan politics into a house of worship, but he is also potentially breaking the law," Chairman Jerry Meek said.

Doris Wilson, one of Chandler's neighbors and a member of First Baptist Church in Waynesville, said God doesn't play partisan politics.

"I hate to see the church suffer like that," she said. "God doesn't care whether you're a Republican or a Democrat. It just hurts to see that going on."

It is with a thanks and praise to journalist who still practice the art of words and communication for the people

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