Posted on 03/05/2007 8:16:11 AM PST by janereinheimer
WHY ARE POLITICIANS MAKING POLITICAL SPEECHES IN CHURCHES?
Obama spoke from the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama.
Hillary, not to be outdone, spoke from another church a few blocks away.
Hillary is being roundly ridiculed for trying her best to sound southerny. Kind of like condescending, patronizing, I-wanna-look-like-you every-word-is-two-syllables southerny.
As if the audience can't tell the difference. But since the only time southern folks ever see real live politicians is when they are either running for something or shaking the money tree, they sit around and listen and look glad for getting some attention.
I can abide all that phony stuff. What I can't wrap my teeny little brain around is this notion that the politicians are making their speeches from churches!
We can't say prayers in school. The politicians are trying to make the Ten Commandments look like they've gone out of style by banning them in public places. All the while they scream "separation of church and state."
I am Christian. I am Lutheran. I am really happy that I went to a Lutheran school 'til 8th grade. We had morning prayers and said the Pledge of Allegiance with all the great fervor that came from me and my fellow school buddies.
Before we go poking the pig of "church/state separation," we ought to look at just how entertwined the two become when it is convenient for the politicians to weave them together. Like when it's a money thing. For instance, how many polling places are located in churches? Wouldn't that be a church-and-state thing?
Shouldn't the IRS be looking into all those churches that have politicians making political speeches from their pulpits?
In the meantime, it looks like the biggest hypocrisy is the church politicos.
TAX 'EM!
You need to ask the ACLU, they're the ones with the biggest problem....at least when it comes to republicans.
Democrats speak in the children of the devil churches and the churches that actually teach the Bible won't take a stand. Heaven help us.
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It's okay because they are all Liberal Democrats, the part of America to which the rules made for the rest of us don't apply.
Two Words: The South
Because the ministers are Democrats.
Of course only Republicans should be investigated.
Some people only go to church at Christmas...democrats only go to church to make speeches.
The names of the churches should be made public, then we all need to contact the IRS with phone calls and emails to complain of the violations. Copy letters/emails to your local newspapers, your congressperson and both of your U.S. Senators, and the White House. If we continue to just sit here and complain, nothing will ever be done.
I heard some of Evita's southern talk on Drudge last night. It was patronizing, condescending and just plain loathesome. Condi certainly wouldn't put on a fake southern accent to talk to that crowd. And she's from Alabama.
The Democrats and all their leftist groups were, hypocritically, very much on this prior to the 2006 election - they specifically, with the help of liberal clergy, had a public campaign AGAINST any church that was in any conceivable manner indicating its support of religiously conservative candidates - such as Ken Blackwell in Ohio.
This should be indeed be called to the attention of the IRS - and to the public.
Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards?
Only cowards when it comes to those in the GOP.
I dare any conservative to go to a church, and do what Hitler beast has done.
If anyone is violating the sanctity of the Church, it's the people who hand their pulpits over to them. Politicians are leeches, and will suck at any flesh they're given.
Three of her friends were killed in the Birmingham Church bombing.
Because the ministers are Democrats.
10 posted on 03/05/2007 9:21:26 AM MST by popdonnelly
The Democrat party supports the murder of babies. The churchs are not for followers of Yah'shua.
b'shem Yahs'hua
This is not a problem because it is Democraps.
If a REPUBLICAN were to speak at a church, they would immediately lose their tax-exempt status.
Because they are 'Rats and the Republicans are too spineless to call them on it.
I think they noticed the success rate of those nascar comedy movies and they want to move their images in that direction
Because democrats can and republicans can't.
I thought we had to separate Church and State....so why are the left getting away with this?
Um...they go there because that's where the people are. Why do they still use churches as polling places? Because the space is available.
If Romney's campaign gets any more traction, I expect to see Hillary singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir....
The rules don't apply to black churches or Democrats.
Calls to "tax the churches" because they are liberal and "they do it to us" are so incredibly stupid that I am astounded
It just shows that there are no true liberals anymore in the traditional sense of the word (they were advocates of small government, freedom for individuals, and liberty..., kind of what "conservatism" was under Reagan before the loons took over). All we have today are moral statists and godless statists.
We don't and it is stupid to concede the idea because of your desire to punish the hypocrisy of the left.
It is like blowing up your house to rid yourself of a pesky fly. You get the fly but you destroy something more valuable in the process.
A. "Separation of Church and State"
B. "Freedom of Speech"
Which one is in the Constitution?
I believe that Harley was being sarcastic at the Left's hypocrisy.
I believe she was too. However, I APPLAUD Hillary and Obama being in the churches. We should, too. It is a MUCH easier argument to make that ideals like justice, mercy, liberty and morality are based on God and His propositional revelation concerning himself if the it is not just the right making that argument.
We should avoid the tempting argument that "If you investigate us, then we will investigate you" and rather encourage them to go into churches and religious organizations. At that point in time it is much easier to say "see, we all agree that concepts of law, morality, justice and truth are absurdities without God. Let's see who is correct."
Oops. Sorry.
Jane Reinheimer
No problem. Easy enough mistake to make - it's not clear that checking it puts it in the sidebar.
Absolutely. Might shoot down the whole 'Separation of Church and State' bilge while we're at it.
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