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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 06:10 PM Apr 2015

Wisconsin Preacher Tells Members How To Vote

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/wisconsin-preacher-tells-members-how-vote

Leading up to Tuesday's spring election in Wisconsin, Pastor Fred Smith of the Watertown Community Church had an interesting message for his congregation - how to vote in the election.

Smith tells his flock that he put a flier in the church bulletin which was published by the Wisconsin Family Council, a conservative religious group that promotes their agenda under the guise of being an educational group. They promote such things like Indiana's recently passed Right to Bigotry law.

Using this flier as justification, Smith preaches against the eeeeevvvvvvil, liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley and why people should vote for the conservative, corporate-controlled James Daley. In the name of Christianity, of course.

It seems that the authorities need to look into the tax exempt status of this church. It is a definite no-no to turn the church pulpit into a bully pulpit. Then again, judging from some of the church's partners, such as Wisconsin Right to Life and Alliance Defending Freedom, it seems that they make a common habit of mixing religion and politics.


IRS, pickup on Line One. IRS, Line One.
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Wisconsin Preacher Tells Members How To Vote (Original Post) KamaAina Apr 2015 OP
Yank it instantly NoJusticeNoPeace Apr 2015 #1
We have to start going after these people. redstatebluegirl Apr 2015 #2
Will Never Happen. MSM Would Crucify Any Politician Daring To Propose Yanking Status. TheMastersNemesis Apr 2015 #3
Don't worry, we won't bomb them for talking politics. That's how they treated black churches: freshwest Apr 2015 #4
Tax exempt status bye bye! Initech Apr 2015 #5

redstatebluegirl

(12,264 posts)
2. We have to start going after these people.
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 06:42 PM
Apr 2015

If they want tax exemption they cannot do this. The Unitarian Church I belong to told us a year or so ago we we under observation by some right wing Christians about our political activity. We no longer talked about progressive ideas at our services. How is it that is ok for Christians to do it and not us?

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
3. Will Never Happen. MSM Would Crucify Any Politician Daring To Propose Yanking Status.
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 08:07 PM
Apr 2015

IRS will never do it. They are infiltrated with right wingers and GOPPERs. And no politician would survive the backlash.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
4. Don't worry, we won't bomb them for talking politics. That's how they treated black churches:
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 09:08 PM
Apr 2015
Birmingham, Alabama, and the Civil Rights Movement in 1963



The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham was used as a meeting-place for civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy and Fred Shutterworth. Tensions became high when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) became involved in a campaign to register African American to vote in Birmingham.

On Sunday, 15th September, 1963, a white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Soon afterwards, at 10.22 a.m., the bomb exploded killing Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). The four girls had been attending Sunday school classes at the church.

Twenty-three other people were also hurt by the blast...


More at the link:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm

The reason the IRS won't stop this is because churches can be used for good or evil. In the case mentioned in the OP, I find the hatemongers to be losers.

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