My point exactly. The Southern Baptist Convention should be screaming about how wrong this is and how they’re not affiliated with them. Why don’t they? Probably because they’re taking grants, too. Someone’s gotta’ pay for those big buildings where they televise the sermon with closed captioning.
“The Southern Baptist Convention should be screaming about how wrong this is and how they’re not affiliated with them. Why don’t they?”
The problem is once a conservative pastor/priest or lay member uses the pulpit or social media to condemn anything the rats do like this, the churches they belong to could lose their charitable tax free status.
During the Clintoon bad behavior, I was a senior warden and my conservative friends in other churches wanted our clergy/priests to say something from their pulpits specifically about Clintoon’s bad behavior. Or allow us to condemn the bad behavior in a meeting at our churches.
We were warned that once we did something like that in an official capacity at a church, that church could lose its non profit status.
A double standard has been in place re political talk in churches for decades. The pastors/priests in liberal controlled churches and black churches, can say any political thing and even have rats running for office deliver part of the sermon or lecture from their pulpits with no problem. If conservatives even tried to discuss our side of a political issue, we could endanger the non profit status of our churches.