Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Church Spies
You may find this interesting: spies are being sent out to churches to determine whether preachers are making political statements from the pulpit.  What is a political statement?  Apparently it would include any teaching that marriage should be between a man and a woman, or comments against the practice of abortion.   Nevermind that these issues may be addressed in the Bible we seek to study together.  If someone says its a political issue, its a political issue. 

Once these issues become a matter of politics, it smudges the line seperating church and state.  Churches may lose their tax-exempt status if they engage in political activity, so the question of what political speech is becomes important.   If political activity and Biblical teaching become one and the same, we have conflict.  The fact that spies are at work is a hint that the conflict is at hand.

1 Comments:

Blogger Wild Bill said...

That figures, hard-line Leftists have been at War with the church for a while. Even thou the Seperation of Church and State myth is not in the Constituion. Nice blog. Have fun.

3:00 PM, July 30, 2004  

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