Posted on 07/24/2004 2:05:31 PM PDT by Alissa
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) - A recent Sunday found Tina Kolm changing her morning routine. Instead of attending a Unitarian Universalist service, she was at the Lenexa Christian Center, paying close attention to a conservative minister's sermon about the importance of amending the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage.
Kolm is one of about 100 volunteers for the Mainstream Coalition, a group monitoring the political activities of local pastors and churches.
The coalition, based in suburban Kansas City, Kan., says it wants to make sure clergy adhere to federal tax guidelines restricting political activity by nonprofit groups, and it's taking such efforts to a new level.
(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...
They say the believe in the 1st amendment but they don't.
Now if the churches preach about stopping the war on terror that's okay...
Someone ought to go after PBS.
Yes, we're not in Kansas anymore. There is an underground that is doing it's damndest to take down every institution in the United States that contributed to what it was.
These people have decided to make the institutions that I hold dear, their number one targets. I don't take those people lightly.
This kind of stuff scares me.
If these people truly care about this issue, why don't they say something about Kerry or Edwards actually preaching IN churches!
Well look on the bright side. They're now going to real churches.
Yup. And next they will be going after all the black churches the dems go to to spread their popaganda too! Yeah right.
I live in the area, and at first I was upset over this. But if this is done, there are a lot of very left wing churches in the 'hood. One down the street was using the church bus to shuttle members to the Gay Pride Parade - don't think they'd survive political speech test (never know tho' with today's judges).But I'm afraid in the long run churches will have to choose between what's right and $$$; the silver lining is that if this starts to happen, it would be an opportunity to shut down all 527 and like organizations also. . .
"This kind of stuff scares me."
Me too because this is what will lead to the "culture wars" becoming "shooting wars", after we defeat Muslim terrorists of course. Or simultaneously, I don't know. I'm still experiencing Prebysterian induced confusion from another thread.
The only way we could have another "shooting civil war" in America is if the left hired Muslim terrorists as mercenaries to fight for them. The left are too cowardly to risk their own skins.
Thanks for the link. It looks like they're for gun control, human cloning, and they support hate crime bills!
LOL. I won't ask.
When political operatives think that Sunday church services are fair game, we all have a problem.
"To a certain extent then, that ideal was achieved, but never completely. There are institutions which it has as yet been impossible to destroy. The churches, for example, still exist. A large part of the dissident activity in the U.S. comes out of the churches, for the simple reason that they're there. So when you go to a European country and give a political talk, it may very likely be in the union hall. Here that won't happen, because unions first of all barely exist, and if they do exist they're not political organizations. But the churches do exist, and therefore you often give a talk in a church. Central American solidarity work mostly grew out of the churches, mainly because they exist."
[Media Control, Noam Chomsky]
Who monitors the subversive monitors?
The word these people don't want to hear mentioned in church is abortion.... the sacrament of the liberal religion.
The first part of the First Amendment states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
It states that Congress shall not influence the church one way or another, not that churches can't make political statements.
This could really hurt the Demorats, iiiiiiiiffffff they ever dare to put informers in the black churches.
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