The Associated Press continues to report (see my earlier post) on the efforts of the so-called "Mainstream Coalition" to butt their noses into other churches' business:
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) - A recent Sunday found Tina Kolm changing her morning routine. Instead of attending a Unitarian Universalist service, she was at the Lenexa Christian Center, paying close attention to a conservative minister's sermon about the importance of amending the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage.
Is it just me, or does this strike you as just horribly twisted and evil? Not attending your own worship service with your own community, in order to get another parish of fellow Christians in trouble with the law?! (I'll not argue here whether a Unitarian Universalist is a Christian. Let's assume it for now.)
Kolm is one of about 100 volunteers for the Mainstream Coalition, a group monitoring the political activities of local pastors and churches.
The coalition, based in suburban Kansas City, Kan., says it wants to make sure clergy adhere to federal tax guidelines restricting political activity by nonprofit groups, and it's taking such efforts to a new level.
I don't know why, but this Scripture comes to mind:
And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. (NKJV)
If the Mainstream Coalition members would spend more time minding their own damn business, maybe they'd actually grow their own parishes through evangelism, rather than attempt to destroy others through partisan politics. It just goes to show: they have no tangible gospel other than political machinations. Their faith is in liberal politics. Their god is their belly.
Posted by Clifton at August 3, 2004 08:00 AM | TrackBackAnd if their purpose is to stop (o)rthodox Christians from following the commands of scripture, then they are of the evil one as well.
Posted by: Huw Raphael at August 3, 2004 08:36 AMI'll not argue here whether a Unitarian Universalist is a Christian. Let's assume it for now.
LOL!
How is that those pastors, parishoners, and other "volunteers" (who are probably associated with "nonprofit groups") are not engaging in political activities by making sure other nonprofit groups are not engaged in political activities?
Oh, wait--that's your point.
Until there is consensus that "political activity" cannot be separated from one's beliefs/values/spirituality (cf. the concept of worldview), there's no point arguing with those who think the two can/should be separated. The logic is lost on them. No?
Posted by: Michael G at August 3, 2004 12:13 PM