Comments on: Weekend Unanswered Question 3: On Churches and Politics http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/03/12/weekend-unanswered-question-2-on-churches-and-politics/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:24:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/03/12/weekend-unanswered-question-2-on-churches-and-politics/#comment-5626 TBlumer Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:34:25 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=1606#comment-5626 #3, very well put. #3, very well put.

]]> By: meep http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/03/12/weekend-unanswered-question-2-on-churches-and-politics/#comment-5620 meep Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:30:06 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=1606#comment-5620 I was going to make the point TBlumer made: many political movements come from religiously-motivated people, and some led by clergy in particular. Catholic clergy protest the death penalty and abortion, for example. Every so often I see open letters from various religious groups, usually about supporting/not supporting war, Israel, abortion, the death penalty, enforcement of immigration laws, and on and on and on. Some of these messages are part of their religious beliefs; the Quakers are a strong example. I would expect anti-war sermons from them. Are they all nuts then? Because some preach for war and some against? So having a political opinion as a result of the core beliefs of one's religion is not allowed to be expressed by clergy? I think the only people who have a right to say anything about it are the congregation itself -- if they don't like it, they'll leave. I was going to make the point TBlumer made: many political movements come from religiously-motivated people, and some led by clergy in particular. Catholic clergy protest the death penalty and abortion, for example. Every so often I see open letters from various religious groups, usually about supporting/not supporting war, Israel, abortion, the death penalty, enforcement of immigration laws, and on and on and on. Some of these messages are part of their religious beliefs; the Quakers are a strong example. I would expect anti-war sermons from them. Are they all nuts then? Because some preach for war and some against? So having a political opinion as a result of the core beliefs of one’s religion is not allowed to be expressed by clergy? I think the only people who have a right to say anything about it are the congregation itself — if they don’t like it, they’ll leave.

]]> By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/03/12/weekend-unanswered-question-2-on-churches-and-politics/#comment-5585 TBlumer Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:08:47 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=1606#comment-5585 #1, I'm sure the segregationists in the 1960s would have loved to go after Martin Luther King using the IRS as a proxy. #1, I’m sure the segregationists in the 1960s would have loved to go after Martin Luther King using the IRS as a proxy.

]]> By: jpe http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/03/12/weekend-unanswered-question-2-on-churches-and-politics/#comment-5583 jpe Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:41:44 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=1606#comment-5583 "He is incensed at the idea that anyone would “deny clergy the right to be heard simply because they may not agree with our values.” What a numbnut. No one wants to prevent these nutballs from speaking their nutty minds; the question is whether they should be able to do so tax free. “He is incensed at the idea that anyone would “deny clergy the
right to be heard simply because they may not agree with our values.”

What a numbnut. No one wants to prevent these nutballs from
speaking their nutty minds; the question is whether they should
be able to do so tax free.

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