ADF encouraging politics from the pulpit

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ADF encouraging politics from the pulpit

Excerpt taken from CBS news website HERE

 

"Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance Defense Fund is recruiting several dozen pastors to do just that on Sept. 28, in defiance of Internal Revenue Service rules.The effort by the Arizona-based legal consortium is designed to trigger an IRS investigation that ADF lawyers would then challenge in federal court. The ultimate goal is to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a 54-year-old ban on political endorsements by tax-exempt houses of worship."

 

 


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i'm glad i'm canadian...

After all the time i wasted going to church i never once heard any preacher endorse political candidate.  you pick the flavour...Catholic/Anglican or evangelical.  not once.  even in an election year.  i'm sure there would be preachers that would tell you who you should vote for, but it seems to be more of a private conversation topic not one preached from the pulpit. 

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I feel the ADF may be trying

I feel the ADF may be trying to jump on the Palin bandwagon...I am sure they would have her support.

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This should serve as warning

This should serve as warning as to the serious nature of what the right wing in this country have been doing for the past 50 years, as if there were not pleanty of things in the past that they have done to errode the Constitution.

Their neandrothal tribelism can and will turn back the clock to pre-Revolutionary law if non-fundies don't push back, and I am not just talking about atheists.

We are on our way to having a cross physically put on the Capital Dome and on our flag if we allow these types of things to continue. It is up to those of all labels to stop this trend toward Christian socialism if we expect to protect the Constitution.

They are falsely playing the persicution card when the absurdity of it is that they would blow a gasket if a Muslim Cleric indorsed Obama at a Mosque and invited Obama to speak in front of them(Obama is NOT a muslim btw) dispite the bullshit paranoia that people like to buy.

I am fearfull that wont be a majority ruling this country because Evangelicals only make up 40 million Americans and that leaves 260,000 out in the cold if they win.

And if those fuckwads really think it is a good idea, how about a Catholic preast indorsing Obama or Kerry?

Our voting public has no constitutional education and merely seeks to monopolize government to protect their religion as being sole owner of the government ALL citizens live under.

AND THEN WHAT? Lets say these idiots get what they want, then the infighting and sectarian squabbling amoungst different sects of Christianity will increase. Which is EXACTLY what the founders saught to avoid by telling us via "No Religious Test" saught to avoid crap like this.

Do these morons see, that maybe not now, or in the next generation, but down the road we could end up looking exactly like the tribelistic middle east by pandering to pulpit politics.

Is this so that our ellected officials can lay claim to the fact that they started the "final battle" in wich humanity gets to partisipate ina froth of nasty violence and genocide in a global game of "My daddy loves me more than you?"

If you want your superstition is it too much to ask that you leave it out of politics? Otherwise if you bring it in then that issue, which should be left up to you the individual, will eventually be decided for you by our government and that wont be good for a society that claims the motto |"E-Pluribus Unum".

If a theocracy is what you want folks, you just might get one, but I garuntee if you do, you wont like it. Just ask any Sunni how much they love living under a Shitte monopoly goverenment. Just ask any Shiite how much say they have in a Sunni monopolized government.

YOU ARE FUCKING UP THIS COUNTRY BY TAKING THE  FOCUS AWAY FROM REAL ISSUES AND REPLACING IT WITH PERSONAL TRIBELISM!

If your neighbor views the same god differently than you do, or a different god altogether or no god, the smart thing to do is to LEAVE IT OUT OF POLITICS, otherwise the favoritism of one over another will fuck all of us.

I would hate to think Jefferson faught to write a solid Constitution just so som sectarian jackasses could pee on it like a lion marking it's territory.

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I pledge allegiance to Jesus, and the country that he loves.

One nation, Christian, spreading peace and the love of God throughout the Heathen World.

Until he comes back to take us to heaven.

 

 

Get ready kids.  If the IRS doesn't come down REALLY hard on these fuckers, we're going to have to learn a new pledge soon.

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