Posted on 09/11/2013 5:19:41 AM PDT by 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’.
Yes, because now the bus could be a target of the dealers thereby putting innocent children/adult members of the church at potential risk.
Where is the line between church and state exactly? That is not a Constitutional statment.
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.
Yeah, and they got hit in the pocket book. I always heard that the kicked dog yelps.
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