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Originally Posted by 33girl
Politics is not just Republicans and Democrats. I think TP is talking about other "political" issues (like abortion & homosexuality) that are regarded by many churches to be religious issues.
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You are correct. My church's leaders dont go on about alcohol/smoking bans either.
In fact, a few years back there was a big deal downtown regarding giving benefits to gays/including them in affirmative action, something like that. It caused a major uproar in the city. Gays protested many of the local Baptist and Pentecostal churches here, my church being one of them. Camera crews were dispatched to every location to make sure if there was a fight it was caught on video for the evening news. Anywho, our pastor told everyone that when we go outside to leave church we would encounter these protesters. He said the best thing to do was to smile and to ignore what they were saying and not put fuel on the fire. So amazingly, that's what people did, and the protesters and camera crews left.
To address someone's comment about churches not preaching politics from the pulpit. Sadly some do. There is one Baptist church in particular down the road from me that does. They are what I would consider "militant." Their pastor did headstands on buildings downtown and the top of his church when all of the above hoopla was going on in protest of gay rights. They still have the old fashioned tent revivals too. Knowing that pastor and that church, I didnt consider it as an option for membership.
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