06-05-2005 20:01									#1
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No newslink yet, just this clip of a broadcast from a local news station:

http://www.spiffarino.completelyfre...images/wlos.wmv

Well isn't that just wonderful
"not politically motivated"

	06-05-2005 20:01									#2
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Great thread title

	06-05-2005 21:47									#3
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Is that Spiffor's sister's site?

	06-05-2005 23:28									#4
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For some reason, the link did not work. But my comment is this:

Most Democrats would find it to be a badge of honor to be officially excommunicated by the corrupt, fascist and very evil Roman Catholic Church.

	07-05-2005 04:23									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Ned For some reason, the link did not work. But my comment is this: Most Democrats would find it to be a badge of honor to be officially excommunicated by the corrupt, fascist and very evil Roman Catholic Church.

They're not Catholic, they're a Baptist Church where the pastor excommunicated all 40 dem-voting members in one fell swoop...

	07-05-2005 04:24									#6
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Baptists are, by and large, hypocrites. Although they are so ignorant of Biblical teachings as to not realize it.

They give whacko fundamentalists a bad name

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Damn biblebashers, when will they grow up and stop believing these fairytales?

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not politically motivated

self-pwnage again

	07-05-2005 05:05									#9
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Hope that church loses its tax-exempt status.

	07-05-2005 05:58									#10
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Gays should break in and have sex in the pews.

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Baptists are jerks. They keep coming to my door trying to convert me because apparently being slightly dark skinned = muslim.

	07-05-2005 06:06									#12
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Put a sign on your door saying "No dogs or Baptists allowed."

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I'd rather not have burning crosses on my lawn.

	07-05-2005 06:30									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Bosh They're not Catholic, they're a Baptist Church where the pastor excommunicated all 40 dem-voting members in one fell swoop...

According to AP reports, only 12 or so were excommunicated. The others resigned in protest. Not that it makes a difference in my book — what that pastor did was wrong, and his church should lose its tax-exempt status should an investigation prove he crossed the line of church/state separation.

Gatekeeper

	07-05-2005 07:12									#15
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Nah, just let them be. I thought that in the Baptist church the pastor served at the pleasure of the congregation, and therefore a pastor could not dismiss congregants on his own. I don't know about the baptist church, but in the Episcopalian church deacons are usually members with a long and distinguished history of service to the parish and usually are either on the vestry or have been on it repeatedly and have many friends on it. Even in the tradition bound Episcopal church, where priests are invested by a Bishop priests don't usually dismiss the vestry, it's more likely to be the other way around.

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I miss being Episcopalian.

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Baptists are freaks and Nazis. Everyone knows that.

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What's wrong with a Church, or any club or organization, holding standards for who can be a member and who can't be? It isn't anyone's right to be associated with that Baptist Church. If you don't want to conform to their rules, you don't have to be in it.

	07-05-2005 10:05									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Gatekeeper According to AP reports, only 12 or so were excommunicated. The others resigned in protest. Not that it makes a difference in my book — what that pastor did was wrong, and his church should lose its tax-exempt status should an investigation prove he crossed the line of church/state separation. Gatekeeper

Churches are not responsible for maintaining such separation; the State is. It would be a rare move indeed for the church to lose tax-exempt status, as pretty much anything goes as long as they don't start putting money in coffers of pols. Churches have always held political stances, there's nothing wrong with that.

And please avoid generalizing? I doubt all baptists are bad people; probably not one in a hundred are bad people. Let the body be judged by the worth of the whole, not by the worth of the single part. Otherwise you might find yourself being judged by a part you are not fond of ...

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quote: Originally posted by snoopy369 Churches are not responsible for maintaining such separation; the State is. ...

I'll keep that in mind when America becomes a theocracy.

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	07-05-2005 11:19									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Shi Huangdi What's wrong with a Church, or any club or organization, holding standards for who can be a member and who can't be? It isn't anyone's right to be associated with that Baptist Church. If you don't want to conform to their rules, you don't have to be in it.

Hmm. So anything goes just as long as public dollars aren't involved and lives aren't lost?

Gatekeeper

	07-05-2005 11:35									#22
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quote: Most Democrats would find it to be a badge of honor to be officially excommunicated by the corrupt, fascist and very evil Roman Catholic Church.

That was my first thought too.

	07-05-2005 12:07									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Ned For some reason, the link did not work. But my comment is this: Most Democrats would find it to be a badge of honor to be officially excommunicated by the corrupt, fascist and very evil Roman Catholic Church.

From your previous comments about the RCC, so would you.

OMG! Ned is a Democrat!!1111

	07-05-2005 15:11									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon Gays should break in and have sex in the pews.

You've clearly never sat or kneeled on church cushions, let alone uncomfortable pews.

Designed and manufactured by particularly spiteful dried up old nuns, afflicted with chronic rheumatoid arthritis who want everyone else to know exactly how they feel too....

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quote: Originally posted by duke o' york Is that Spiffor's sister's site?

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quote: Originally posted by Shi Huangdi What's wrong with a Church, or any club or organization, holding standards for who can be a member and who can't be? It isn't anyone's right to be associated with that Baptist Church. If you don't want to conform to their rules, you don't have to be in it.

Well in that case, no special tax favours and no influence in politics with Bush and his religious bullsh*t. It works both ways you know...

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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Well in that case, no special tax favours and no influence in politics with Bush and his religious bullsh*t. It works both ways you know...

I absolutely agree. Render unto Caesar, and all that.

Wait, wasn't that said by Mr. God ?

	07-05-2005 23:27									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Well in that case, no special tax favours and no influence in politics with Bush and his religious bullsh*t. It works both ways you know...

Churches aren't taxed as they are non-profit organizations. Leaders such as Bush are free to get their philosophical views from whatever philosophy they choose.

	08-05-2005 02:59									#29
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Sounds more like internal church politics to me. That and some people here eager to join in on a circle jerk or two.

If they don't go to that church then they can go to the one on the next street over. To say they got excommunicated is to win the drama queen award for the week. Congrats

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spiff has a sister?