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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JeffA who wrote (44742)	5/6/2005 12:30:41 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

A BAPTIST church controlled by a national organization of Baptist ministers. This is not an isolated idea. It's basically been going on for years and even decades, it's just never quite crossed the line like this. Remember during the Schiavo case, the judge was tossed out of his church too, a conservative Christian judge who made the right decision. The other day Pat Robertson said judges are worse than Al Qaida. This is the beginning of a holy war. The rightwing has declared it and Bush/DElay/Frist fueled it. But good and honest Americans will take our country back. These creeps are preaching exactly the opposite of what Christ taught. It's just plain evil. And it is exactly what the Taliban would do.

To: JeffA who wrote (44742)	5/6/2005 4:42:18 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

John Kerry, and by implication all Catholics who support him, are within an inch of excommunication because their secular views differ from official church doctrine. You do recall that during the 2004 campaign various Catholic bishops made harsh statements against Kerry, stated that they would deny him communion and told their followers that it was a "sin" to vote for Kerry? I sometimes suspect that the Church does not excommunicate us only because they value our financial contributions. Churches have the right to keep or expel anyone they want, but I start to wonder if churches that meddle in politics by overtly linking public policy and church doctrine - and taking public action against public figures that don't push the church agenda - should continue to enjoy tax exemptions. IMHO, various churches are blurring the line between religion and politics, not just in the one incident mentioned by AS. catholicexchange.com