N.C. Church Kicks Out Members Who Do Not Support Bush

[Shira]

In NC everything is possible. They are at least 100 years behind.

[angus]

That is utterly disgraceful and deeply unchristian. Shame on him.

Athough it's tempting, please don't blame this on George Bush.  My guess is that he is as uncomfortable with this as you are.

[MissCatholic]

The people to blame here arent bush or anyone connected to the bush administration its the people who do the banning.

I`m sure it didnt take long for liberals to find this case and move it into the public eye. Yes it is wrong but whats the point in giving it this amount of attention.

If your church says your not welcome...MOVE TO ANOTHER ONE...their are plenty more to attend too.

[angus]

I think that's true.  I'm trying to think of sitting in mass.  We actually went some when I was a kid, fairly regularly till after my confirmation.  And I'm trying to imagine the monsignor saying something like that.  I just can't.  I can remember the last time I talked to a priest was in 1993 on the ocassion of my mother's requiem mass.  He was a hard drinker, and like my sister, a heavy smoker.  Liked nasty jokes too.  Smart man he was.  And generally kind to my family.  We talked about all sorts of things, but not politics, as I recall.  I suppose times have changed.  I don't want to trample on anyone's religion, but this is tacky.  And, in as much as I understand the concept, it's unchristian, as Al pointed out.

[jacob_101]

Why does anyone care except the congregants of the church.  The church is a private organization and can have whatever rules it wants.  However the church should lose it's tax exempt status.

[A18]

However the church should lose its tax exempt status.

No, it shouldn't. This kind of fascism should lose its tax exempt status.

[Bono]

Altough they've been expled from that CHurch(I wonder what they'd do to the Peroutka supports), they haven't been expelled from the invisible church, which is all that matters.
Anyways, this just proves why the presbyterian form of governance is better than the congregational.

[phk]

Still, I think this is less consequential than the fact that a conservative has great difficulty getting tenure at a university.  In the academic and entertainment worlds, conservatives are effectively blacklisted in many cases because of their views.  While both are wrong, it's relatively easy to join another church, but it's difficult to get another career.

Quit with the 'victim' mentality, you guys picked religion over science.

Religion and Education haven't mixed since the days of Galileo, Kepler, Darwin, Brahe, Darwin.

[Gabu]

Religion and Education haven't mixed since the days of Galileo, Kepler, Darwin, Brahe, Darwin.

Er, you might not want to include Tycho Brahe; he rejected heliocentrism (the thought that things revolve around the sun) in lieu of geocentrism (the thought that things revolve around the earth) mostly for religious reasons.

It's interesting to note that Brahe's own measurements were used against him by Kepler to prove that heliocentrism was likely to be correct, but now I'm getting off on a tangent on science, so I'll stop.