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Posted by: ameliog 7 months, 1 week ago

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Preachers need to rally voters for Biblical values - that is, opposition to abortion and gay marriage - according to Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel. So Staver, a lawyer and former pastor, tells preachers how to do it and skirt regulations of the IRS while they are at it.

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Itachirumon7 months, 1 week ago

Oh...this guy did NOT just endorse breaking the law for his values. Someone should ask Hillary and Obama what they intend to do about quacks like this?
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  Locky127 months, 1 week ago
  
  Don't you worry.
  Hillary has her own "think-tank" shills like "Media Matters" that aren't supposed to fetch votes but do anyway. And they do worse by advocating the pulling of advertising for shows with views they don't like.
  Please. The left wrote the book on how to play fast and loose with vote-getting. It would be the height of hypocrisy to after churches for telling their congregation to "vote their conscience".
  It's the same as P-Diddy saying "Vote or Die".
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    Goppy7 months ago
    
    So how do you know that the Right Wing owns 100% of media, and the Business Model for this enterprise is PROFIT?
    How do you know this?
    This is sposed to be a secret! You have to be pretty ding dang smart to figure this out on your own.
    Cause Conservatives spend MILLIONs of dollors to promote the propaganda that media is a Left Wing enterprise.
    I dont know how you figured this out but you are a dangerous person.
    ANYBODY whos intellegent enough to figure this out is dangerous as far as Im concerned.
    I would suggest that you turn on FOX, listen for 24 hours strait, and drink lots and lots of Kool Aid. Then you can be liek the rest of us Christian Conservatives - who swapped Jesus for Karl Rove.
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      Locky127 months ago
      
      Yeah, the Right Wing owns 100% of the media. Because Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Randi Rhodes, Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher are such right wingers.
      Sorry but Fox News IS NOT 100% of the media, nor is talk radio.
      "VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE".
      Why would a statement like that be offensive to the left?
      Could it be because your conscience bothers you when you vote democrat?
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        Locky127 months ago
        
        I find offensive that Hillary used "media matters" to listen to talk radio at 6:30am to hear Don Imus say "nappy-headed-hoes" and had him fired.
        I'm offended that Hillary and other left-wing senators have made moves to pull Rush Limbaugh off the air. They ultimately want to pass the "fairness doctrine" so that all I can hear about is how wonderful everything could be if people like Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ran the country just the way they like it.
        Check out DeMint's book: Why We Whisper.
        It's people like you that hate the First Amendment of the Constitution. You sound like you'd be happier if it didn't include so much freedom of speech or religion.
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        Locky127 months ago
        
        Don't question my patriotism.
        W is just countering the laws that congress is passing to usurp his power-- given to him by the constitution!
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david_nwpa7 months, 1 week ago

Why is this on the front page?? Propeller intends to tell its people that it is perfectly OK, nay acceptable in order to win votes to have churches cross the line and violate the law? This article is a blatant slap in the face towards gays and lesbians. I am insulted and outraged that it got this many positive votes. Am I misreading this article or is it the religious right's way of saying that gays are really non-citizens?
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  david_nwpa7 months, 1 week ago
  
  On closer reading of the article, I see that it is indicating what is being done by the religious right. Reporting it. Clearly, if these actions are happening as is suggested here, we need to take a stand and stop them. Whoever the "them" is.
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    Itachirumon7 months, 1 week ago
    
    Right on, don't you love how they will go out of their way to destroy our rights? We are the new "black" I say black instead of African American because the supremists hated all black people and not just those living in America (and it's the epitomy of insulting to them to call ALL black people African Americans if they don't actually live here in my opinion).
    Anyway, it's funny...they make excuses to discriminate..is it THAT hard to just be accepting? Probably.
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miklkit7 months, 1 week ago

I voted for this story in order to get it on the front page so more people could see how the religious right actually works. They are such a shining example of how to behave.
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  Goppy7 months ago
  
  I woundnt go THAT far.
  Christian Conservatives aint stupid scum. And we aint inbred morons.
  Although, we are in the process of rejecting Jesus in favor of hard line political points of view that suit our southern prejudices to a TEE.
  Jesus was just, just, too LIBURAL.
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jdhatl7 months, 1 week ago

These people are dangerous to America. They are our Nazi party. They talk about the Sanctity of Life but it's clear that their view of life is very inconsistent. Anyone who would support anything this administration is doing is unable to truly understand the meaning of the word life. The central distinguishing factor in totalitarianism as described in Vol. 3 of Hannah Arendt's series on the Origins of Totalitarianism is that there exists a logical system within the movement that can reduce all things to an either-or situation, so that the entire world can be explained and interpreted appropriately. For the Nazis, it was race, for Stalin and the Communists, it was Class, and for these people it's their concept of "The Word Of God". How can someone truly believe that they personally know what God is thinking about? They only evidence they give about the Gay Marriage issue is a few interviews with people on Death Row, who have nothing to do with this issue.
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  Itachirumon7 months, 1 week ago
  
  They're liars who just spin the word God around to control people, it's dispicable. They know they have the money to shout the loudest so they can say anything they want without reprisal. They forget the "..unless it offends someone to a reasonable extent" passage of the 1st Amendment
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    crghss7 months ago
    
    Ironic how nutscapers want freedom of speech only while they're talking.
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ameliog7 months, 1 week ago

We'll get to choose between attending the red churches or the blue churches. Troublesome.
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boatmich7 months, 1 week ago

More right wing evil
All churches should be taxed.
Things that fall through the church tax loop hole,
Private estates, large tracts of land, private islands,
yachts, personal jewelry, 2nd & 3rd cars.
Join a mega church. Better yet start your own.
Its just another way for the rich to dodge there bill.

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DropkickaLib7 months ago

They should be censor Christian pastors but for God's sake, stay out of the Mosques.
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StillUnashamed7 months ago

Question: Why is it the mere mention of politics in a conservative church brings out cries of IRS violations yet liberal churches can hold out-right political rallies and invite democratic candidates to campaign from their pulpits and not a word of critisism is heard?
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    StillUnashamed7 months ago
    
    Do I understand you to say certain political statements are ok for churches to address and other political statements are out-of-bounds? Surely, I'm misunderstanding you.
    You know who "these churches" are? How do you know they have no association with Jesus?
    The only difference I see are churches which endorse ideas considered Republican are threatened by the IRS yet churches which endorse Democratic ideas are given a free pass. Or are you saying the Democrats are the party of Jesus?
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        StillUnashamed7 months ago
        
        I don't believe any one party has a monopoly on God. And I agree with you on the purpose of the church and that many churches have lost their original purpose. I assume then that you are as opposed to liberal churches endorsing democratic candidates as you are to conservative churches endorsing republican candidates. If this is indeed true, then you and I are in agreement. But the fact is that the media gives a pass to the liberal churches while condemning the conservative churches for doing the same thing even to a lesser degree.
        My point is that the media do not treat all churches the same in regards to political activity.
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        StillUnashamed7 months ago
        
        And no, I don't read Ann Coulter, but I did stay in a Holliday Inn Express.
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crespi7 months ago

Tax ALL the Churches.
They need to be accountable like the rest of us.
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  crespi7 months ago
  
  And if the tax money goes to funding an illegal war that gets their kids killed, they will REJOICE that their "baby" is in heaven.
  Jesus LOVES war and killin'. Right?
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tourezx2 months, 2 weeks ago

Staver tells preachers how to get Biblical votes and why they should not fear consequences even if they "cross the line." I assume then that you are as opposed to liberal churches endorsing democratic candidates as you are to conservative churches endorsing republican candidates.
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mascheranoza2 months, 1 week ago

GodTube has plenty of interesting material, if you haven't checked it out, but these 14 uploads of 2-3 minutes each may not last long - so take a look soon. Links are below.The left wrote the book on how to play fast and loose with vote-getting.
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