Get Disentangled! Houses of Worship Must Learn That Caesar's Coins Came With Controls

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https://au.org/church-state/november-2014-church-state/viewpoint/get-disentangled

November 2014
Viewpoint

By The Rev. Rollin Russell

America’s noisy evangelicals must not have taken Christian Ethics 101. In response to Presi­dent Barack Obama’s recent executive order banning discrimination against LGBT persons by any organization that has a federal government contract, they are hyper-ventilating in their victim mode.

They believe they should be able to discriminate if they want to and if it offends their religious convictions not to do so. They even have an Evangelical Association of Government Contractors to plead their case, and of course the National Association of Evangelicals is in high dudgeon over the order. The obvious alternative seems never to have occurred to them: Do not enter into government contracts.

Congress and the last two administrations have been bullied into creating an Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. The Bush administration used it as an apparent payoff for evangelical electoral support, and the Obama administration furthers it in the hopes of keeping those folks at bay.

[Prophet 451]

1. They want freedom to discriminate

This is what Republianity believes, that it should have the right to do whatever it wants, that the First Amendment protects the church from government interference but not teh other way around.

Tax the bastards.