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....I see it as unconstitutional for the goverment to keep churches and pastors from endorsing canidates and parties.If a pastor believes that canidate A or Party B matches up best with their spiritual POV the first ammendment gives them the right to say so without having the IRS take away their tax exempt status.
The constitution does not keep the church out of the states buissness only the state out of the churches buiissness.
Sprituality,just because I think that pastors and/or churches endorsing canidates/parties should be legal and in no way penalized by the goverment does not mean I think it is right spiri.Once you start down the road of partisan politics it is way too easy to put the churches true mission on the back burner in favor of being operatives for a secular political group.That is wrong.So while I disagree with you and think the ADF is right as regards to their legal POV,I agree that churches should NEVER get involved in endorsing specific parties/canidates as a moral,spiritual matter.
by ron faerie on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:21:00 PM PDT
It's a two-way street, that's been settled for some time now.
by pastordan on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:40:58 PM PDT
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You may consider it settled,as may many experts,I do not consider it settled.The state cannot tell the people how to worship and the state cannot tell the people that they cannot vote or serve if they are not of a certain faith.The constitution does not say that the church(which is a collective expression of the people) cannot use the state to advance their agenda up to the point that they are using the state to force others to worship(or not) in a certain way.I cannot see a pastor saying the GOP _or the democrats) is the party most in line with God's will as a threat to democracy in and of itself.I do not see it as a threat to the church.
by ron faerie on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:02:20 PM PDT
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