Posted on 03/18/2005 5:53:03 PM PST by M. Espinola
Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The judge in the Terri Schaivo case who reissued an order Friday that prompted Terri's feeding tube to be removed for a third time has withdrawn his membership in a local Baptist Church.
William Rice, the pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater, Florida, confirmed the news to the Baptist Press news agency on Friday.
Rice said he received a letter from Greer Thursday confirming he has rescinded his long-standing membership after the church. The Greer letter came days after Rice made public comments in news reports disagreeing with Greer's decisions related to Terri.
Rice said the two exchanged letters about the nature of Greer's church affiliation after the judge commented publicly about his religious views.
The pastor told Baptist Press he had offered to meet with Greer and received the letter as a response.
According to a St. Petersburg Times news report, Greer, earlier this month, said he told a church deacon, "If I don't like what the St. Pete Times writes about me, my only recourse is to cancel my subscription." He told the deacon he would no longer make donations to the church.
Rice told Baptist Press, “I felt like [the Times' comments] opened the door for me to write him and ask what kind of relationship he desired to have with the church."
“Our church has not had an antagonistic relationship with Judge Greer,” and he has not been publicly criticized at any church function, Rice said. “He has friends at the church on a personal level."
Greer's attendance at church began to decline when an official Florida Baptist State Convention publication, the Florida Baptist Witness, began running articles critical of Greer's decision.
Calvary Baptist Church places its newsletters inside the Witness magazine and sends it to its 1,500 members, including Greer.
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This Catholic says "Thanks be to God!" for our Baptist brothers in Florida who aren't afraid to stand for life and truth.
"He told the deacon he would no longer make donations to the church. "
So its about the MONEY!
I have never followed a televangelist, so that strawman of yours falls on the pits of hell forthwith.
However, I have both read and listened to the Scriptures all the way through several times. It is abundantly clear that who vainly say "Lord, Lord" in Jesus' picture, are those who are content with externals. Remember, the context of preaching among the Pharisees, who were experts in the externals.
Yes, in heaven. That's where the saved are already seated, whether they are undergoing painful discipline or enjoying a blameless walk.
She should have voted the other way then.
If what you said is the case, and it well may be, She is like the child that murderers both of his/her parents and then wants to throw themselves on the mercy of the court because they are orphans.
Maybe she does.
She should do what Judas did after he betrayed Jsesu and received his 30 pieces of gold.
It's always about the money with rats like 'judge' Greer.
But basically, it has no application in the case of the damned, as you would have earlier had it have. They have no salvation to work out.
I think some overzealous Christians fling hellfire and brimstone around a bit too indiscriminately. It just creates a mess and confusion.
This Catholic says "Thanks be to God!" for our Baptist brothers in Florida who aren't afraid to stand for life and truth
This Catholic agrees with you! And "Thanks be to God"
for Rabbi Shmuley Boteach who also isn't afraid to stand
for life and truth!
Barbarity in America
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43381
"It's always about the money with rats like 'judge' Greer."
Yes, but few actually admit it.
Greer's attendance at church began to decline when an official Florida Baptist State Convention publication, the Florida Baptist Witness, began running articles critical of Greer's decision.
Calvary Baptist Church places its newsletters inside the Witness magazine and sends it to its 1,500 members, including Greer.
There's no need to wish hell on this judge. He's creating his own hell on this earth by CHOICE.
Why don't they just go in and take Terri out - she is being murdered.
Take her out of Florida, out of the country if necessary.
I'm not sorry he left that church.
Lends new meaning to the expression hell bent - when one can sign a death warrant for an innocent person whose only fault is to be incapacitated.
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Starve him to death.
A caller into our local talk radio host here in Memphis posed this thought too. How can greer judge this case since he is legally blind and all the evidence that Terri is not in a vegitative state is visual?
"We should pray for Judge Greer."
I do, I pray he rots in hell or any place worse, right alongside George Felos and Michael Schiavo.
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