Posted on 03/04/2010 3:19:05 AM PST by Brugmansian
The Pittsburgh 9.12 Project, a grass-roots conservative group, was forced to seek a new home after complaints about a North Hills church's decision to allow them to use their meeting room.
The group, an affiliate of the movement promoted by Fox commentator Glenn Beck, had staged a series of gatherings in St. John Lutheran Church of Highland. The church's meeting room was also to have been the site of a similar conservative group, the Pittsburgh Tea Party movement, last weekend, but that session was canceled due to weather . . .
The decision came after a blog post on the liberal website Daily Kos criticized the church's decision to hold the gatherings and suggested that the conservative group's views on issues such as global warming were at odds with the views of the Lutheran Church.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Conservatives need to get off their butts and do the same thing to black churches that rats use to get votes. Those churches are so political that most of them are just cover ops for rats, just like ACORN.
Meanwhile, any conservatives connected to the church at issue in the article should quit the congregation or, at the very least, voice their objections and never give them another dime.
That is why I said what I said cause had acorn or some homosexual group been denied they’d certainly have gone to the courts. As they should.
Christian groups, conservative groups, pro gun groups etc need to push back a hard as the libs do.
suggested that the conservative group’s views on issues such as global warming were at odds with the views of the Lutheran Church.
Swampy, I’m going to have to plead ignorance here. My state is full of Lutherans, and by and large, my perception is, they are conservative, base on the overall perception that the state is a conservative state.
Russ, the article, unfortunately does not delineate factions, but just states more than once, Lutheran Church. We’ll chalk the confusion up to the author of the article.
it was warm enough to run around naked
“The Lutheran Church is not at all conservative as a whole!”
It’s not a singular entity, either. LCMS shares nothing with ELCA but a word.
Has some real whoppers e.g. “God does not judge us”.
“..Of course, those that host them may get their IRS tax-exempt status revoked...”
Can’t serve two masters - either Serve God or serve Mammon.
And that decision is being put before each of us daily...
Showdown coming. At lightspeed.
enviroNutcasess are a bunch of petty little f***s, eh?
I probably feel different than most here; but churches shouldn’t hosting political groups of any kind, in my opinion.
Churches were used by the Committees of Correspondence during the Revolution. The War of Independence was preached from the pulpit. Same with abolition, woman's suffrage, the fight against Jim Crow and opposition to the Viet Nam War. Except for some minor Christian groups which believe in a withdrawal from the public square, the idea that the church should keep out of politics is a post-WWII idea found mostly on the left and only when conservatives church goers are involved.
i highly respect a pastor who has the conviction of his faith to say 'bite me' when ANY entity crosses the Truth of scripture...
the whole homo promotion equality laws thing will soon separate the faithful from the collection plate junkies...
fortunately, the Lord already knows the hearts of us all, and will use all this to His Glory...
I like that guy, naming names and kicking butt! :-)
Thanks for the link!
“...enviroNutcasess...”
Why anyone even bothers to listen to them is beyond me. Treat them with absolute contempt and disregard.
“...respect a pastor who has the conviction ...”
Too many have forgotten THEIR oath.
Sheep, wolves, and Sheepdogs. We all have t decide which of those we are. Pastors are DEFINITELY “supposed” to be Sheepdogs.
When they fall on their *sses, it’s up to us.
This is type of political activism by churches I find unacceptable and see mostly:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464010/posts
Unilateral disarmament isn’t the answer. There were churches which preached against the American Revolution, against abolition and against ending Jim Crow. Had clergy not stood up, those sides would have prevailed.
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