If you are religious, butt out of politics

from Agape Press
by Bill Fancher

...Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has threatened "people of faith" with what one religious leader calls "the supreme insult."

Rob Schenck, director of the National Clergy Council, describes recent comments by Dean "just outrageous ... Insulting ... [and] demeaning."

He is talking about remarks attributed to the DNC leader, who warned Christians to get out of politics.

Schenck summarized Dean's comments: "[He said] you're either religious or you're involved in politics, but you can't do both. {No, we CAN do both, Dean and his ilk just don't WANT us to do both because they don't want to be held accountable.}

So if you are religious, butt out of politics."

Besides being unconstitutional, the comments are an insult, says Schenck. "This is precisely the kind of bullying that Howard Dean and other Democrats have been engaging in for years now," the ministry leader says.

"It is nothing but a malicious bullying {I'd say it is HATE Speech...umm, their own laws CAN and SHOULD be applied to them as well!} to say to religious people, 'You either stay in your churches and be quiet, or come out and be a part of the public, but you don't do both.'

And that, to me, is a supreme insult." Schenck says Christians must be involved in politics without fear of their churches seeing their tax-exempt status revoked, a threat voiced by Dean. {Does this mean that their "freebies" can be revoked as well if they tick 'we the people' off? Franking privileges...etc...it would be really nice to see in print exactly what benefits politicians receive. There must be somewhere a "benefits package" that is given to them.....why not to their employers 'we the people'? }

Republican Senator Sam Brownback {For President!} also objects to Dean's discrimination. "People should not have to choose between participation in civic activities and their faith," he says. "That is wrong, it's un-American, and people shouldn't threaten groups on that as well."

The Kansas lawmaker wants to remove the tax-threat potential supported by Dean. "It is my hope we can pass the bill that Walter Jones has had in the House for some period of time to remove this potential for penalty that's in the tax code," Brownback states.

The Jones bill would allow churches to say anything they want without fear of the Internal Revenue Service revoking their tax-exempt status.

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