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[Michael <michael AT metalab.unc.edu>]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Lance A. Brown wrote:

> This happened prior to the last election as far as I know.

No, it happened last week.

The (cough) minister in question had stated that anyone who didn't support 
Bush in November should get churched, but he stated this as a reflection, 
not a mandate contemporary to the election itself.  According to a couple 
of church members, he had started including endorsements of Bush in his 
sermons as early as September of last year and my absolutely uninformed 
guess would be that he got in a fight with the deacons all the way back 
then (two deacons were among those he churched for their "dissent") that 
finally boiled over just now.  However, to be perfectly clear, the events 
in question are current events, not old news.  His stated policy when 
this happened was that anyone in the church who had voted for Kerry (not 
who planned to vote for Kerry) should resign or publicly repent.

Apparently he'd taken care of all the important stuff and really started 
digging down into that "To Do" list.  All the other local churches are 
just jealous his church managed to work its way past "heal all spiritual 
and emotional wounds of flock" and "approach the perfection of Christ 
through sincere repentance and a renewed heart," (and even "have a bake 
sale without inspiring small traumas and large dramas") and get all the 
way down to "church Democrats for lack of anything better to do."

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