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Church Forced to Remove ‘Anger Provoking’ Billboards Declaring ‘America is a Christian Nation’
The Stream ^
| 6/19/18
| Todd Starnes
Posted on 06/19/2018 7:04:23 PM PDT by marshmallow
Billboards promoting a celebration of faith and freedom at the First Baptist Church in Dallas were removed after complaints from Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and the Dallas Morning News.
The patriotic billboard campaign included the title of the sermon Dr. Robert Jeffress planned to deliver on June 24 – “America is a Christian Nation.”
“We were told by the billboard company that the message was divisive,” Jeffress told the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
The sermon title was inspired by a comments made by Supreme Court Justices John Jay and David Josiah Brewer — both of whom described America as a Christian nation.
“The message will present the historical evidence for the bedrock of faith upon which America was founded,” said Jeffress.
However, the Dallas Morning News and Mayor Rawlings blasted the pastor’s sermon title suggesting it was hateful and divisive.
“That is not the Christ I follow,” the mayor told the newspaper. “It’s not the Dallas I want to be — to say things that do not unite us but divide us. I never heard those words — that voice come out of Christ. Just the opposite. I was brought up to believe: Be proud of yours, but do not diminish mine.”
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TOPICS: Current Events; Evangelical Christian; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antichristianbigotry; billboards; christiannation; dallas; jeffress
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To: marshmallow
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:05:54 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
(Z1)
To: marshmallow
Forced? As in censored?
That’s unconstitutional.
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:07:35 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: marshmallow
“That is not the Christ I follow,” the mayor told the newspaper. “It’s not the Dallas I want to be — to say things that do not unite us but divide us. I never heard those words — that voice come out of Christ. Just the opposite. I was brought up to believe: Be proud of yours, but do not diminish mine.” He must've missed the part about "No one gets to the Father except through the Son."
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:08:51 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: marshmallow
Just try that with a mosque.
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:09:14 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
To: marshmallow
Let me guess, those who complained were a mixture of radical atheists and representatives of the religion of pieces?
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:10:08 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: marshmallow
America WAS a Christian nation.
Progressives decided it shouldn’t be.
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:12:44 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Lurkinanloomin
America WAS a Christian nation. Now we're the heir apparent to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:13:22 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
It certainly appears that way...........
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:15:46 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: marshmallow
Explains a lot about present-day Dallas.
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:15:55 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: usconservative
Guess he doesn’t know the Jesus of the Bible.
“Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division”
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:17:18 PM PDT
by
MNDude
To: marshmallow
“That is not the Christ I follow,” the mayor told the newspaper. “It’s not the Dallas I want to be — to say things that do not unite us but divide us. I never heard those words — that voice come out of Christ. Just the opposite. I was brought up to believe: Be proud of yours, but do not diminish mine.”What'shisname the Mayor is just an ignorant jerk
I suppose allahu akbar! is acceptable though?"
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:19:06 PM PDT
by
publius911
( If we let it, California will lead us all over the cliff.)
To: MNDude
John 15:18-27 King James Version (KJV)
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:19:29 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: usconservative
Sounds like the mayor is reading it all wrong. “We are a Christian nation” tells me that even a non-Christian is welcome. I don’t see it being divisive at all.
If Syria or Iran or Saudi Arabia were “Christian nations”, they wouldn’t have all the human rights issues we see there.
I guess Dallas puts up “holiday decorations”...not Christmas.
(...and 10 to 1, that mayor does not “follow Christ” at all...)
To: marshmallow
We’re an atheistic muzzie country as far as the MSMLSD thinks.
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:20:37 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: Rurudyne
It was only mayor Mike Rawlings and Dallas Morning News that complained.
Rawlings used his office to pressure the billboard company to remove the sign.
Rev DR Jeffress pointed out that the SCOTUS just ruled that local govs cannot force action against someone's religion
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:21:47 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: marshmallow
For folks that aren’t local - Rawlings is a member of the ultra liberal PCUSA (First Presbyterian Dallas) although he has been honored by the homosexual “Cathedral of Hope”.
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:24:02 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: marshmallow
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:29:06 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
To: marshmallow
I’d like for there to be billboards that say
America Was A Christian Nation
that show a happy family as they would have been a couple of centuries ago.
To: marshmallow
But Obama declaring (lying about) our strong Muslim heritage was, of course, perfectly acceptable.
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:34:49 PM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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