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Mayor of Hamlin, WV asked to resign as pastor after deputies use church bus
WOWK ^ | Jessie Shafer

Posted on 09/11/2013 5:19:41 AM PDT by Morgana

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To: Morgana

He should be fired, because he confused the line between the neutrality of the church, and involvement in secular matters.

What if next time, the bus was full of church goers when it ventured into the territory of a ruthless and armed meth lab operator?

Not ironically at all, this is little different from the days of moonshining. Were a pastor to aid “revenuers” against the local moonshiners, using the same logic that alcohol harms people, his name would have still been ‘mud’.


21 posted on 09/11/2013 8:41:46 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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FReepers did the mayor/pastor really do a bad thing? I thought the church was suppose to help the community. Meth is a serious problem and by lending the bus it was a great help.

Yes, because now the bus could be a target of the dealers thereby putting innocent children/adult members of the church at potential risk.

22 posted on 09/11/2013 9:14:03 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: SgtHooper

Where is the line between church and state exactly? That is not a Constitutional statment.


23 posted on 09/11/2013 1:18:07 PM PDT by Bruinator ("For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things an atheistic question")
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These are “agents” of the government (whether local, country, state or federal) using church property to further government purposes. The agents should have bought and outfitted their own bus for their purposes.


24 posted on 09/12/2013 8:17:27 AM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: USNBandit

Yeah, and they got hit in the pocket book. I always heard that the kicked dog yelps.


25 posted on 09/12/2013 8:21:15 AM PDT by sport
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