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Why Are Politicans Making Political Speeches in Churches?
http://www.janereinheimer.com ^ | March 5, 2007 | Jane Reinheimer

Posted on 03/05/2007 8:16:11 AM PST by janereinheimer

WHY ARE POLITICIANS MAKING POLITICAL SPEECHES IN CHURCHES?

Obama spoke from the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama.

Hillary, not to be outdone, spoke from another church a few blocks away.

Hillary is being roundly ridiculed for trying her best to sound southerny. Kind of like condescending, patronizing, I-wanna-look-like-you every-word-is-two-syllables southerny.

As if the audience can't tell the difference. But since the only time southern folks ever see real live politicians is when they are either running for something or shaking the money tree, they sit around and listen and look glad for getting some attention.

I can abide all that phony stuff. What I can't wrap my teeny little brain around is this notion that the politicians are making their speeches from churches!

We can't say prayers in school. The politicians are trying to make the Ten Commandments look like they've gone out of style by banning them in public places. All the while they scream "separation of church and state."

I am Christian. I am Lutheran. I am really happy that I went to a Lutheran school 'til 8th grade. We had morning prayers and said the Pledge of Allegiance with all the great fervor that came from me and my fellow school buddies.

Before we go poking the pig of "church/state separation," we ought to look at just how entertwined the two become when it is convenient for the politicians to weave them together. Like when it's a money thing. For instance, how many polling places are located in churches? Wouldn't that be a church-and-state thing?

Shouldn't the IRS be looking into all those churches that have politicians making political speeches from their pulpits?

In the meantime, it looks like the biggest hypocrisy is the church politicos.


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1 posted on 03/05/2007 8:16:12 AM PST by janereinheimer
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To: janereinheimer

TAX 'EM!


2 posted on 03/05/2007 8:16:44 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: janereinheimer

You need to ask the ACLU, they're the ones with the biggest problem....at least when it comes to republicans.


3 posted on 03/05/2007 8:17:24 AM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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Political speech in a church is perfectly fine! ...if it's liberal political speech.
4 posted on 03/05/2007 8:17:49 AM PST by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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To: janereinheimer

Democrats speak in the children of the devil churches and the churches that actually teach the Bible won't take a stand. Heaven help us.


5 posted on 03/05/2007 8:18:10 AM PST by farmer18th
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To: janereinheimer

Please do not select "Activism/Chapters" when posting blog entries - it puts your post into the Activism/Chapter sidebar, which is reserved for FR activism.


6 posted on 03/05/2007 8:18:53 AM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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Shouldn't the IRS be looking into all those churches that have politicians making political speeches from their pulpits?

It's okay because they are all Liberal Democrats, the part of America to which the rules made for the rest of us don't apply.

7 posted on 03/05/2007 8:19:37 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: janereinheimer
Does this prove that neither of them has 666 tattooed on their scalps?
8 posted on 03/05/2007 8:20:06 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: janereinheimer

Two Words: The South


9 posted on 03/05/2007 8:20:51 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman (Hunter/Paul 08)
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Because the ministers are Democrats.


10 posted on 03/05/2007 8:21:26 AM PST by popdonnelly ([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
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To: dfwgator

Of course only Republicans should be investigated.


11 posted on 03/05/2007 8:21:55 AM PST by Nutmeg08
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Some people only go to church at Christmas...democrats only go to church to make speeches.


12 posted on 03/05/2007 8:21:56 AM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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The names of the churches should be made public, then we all need to contact the IRS with phone calls and emails to complain of the violations. Copy letters/emails to your local newspapers, your congressperson and both of your U.S. Senators, and the White House. If we continue to just sit here and complain, nothing will ever be done.


13 posted on 03/05/2007 8:22:38 AM PST by TommyDale (What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
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To: janereinheimer

I heard some of Evita's southern talk on Drudge last night. It was patronizing, condescending and just plain loathesome. Condi certainly wouldn't put on a fake southern accent to talk to that crowd. And she's from Alabama.


14 posted on 03/05/2007 8:22:43 AM PST by carola
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The Democrats and all their leftist groups were, hypocritically, very much on this prior to the 2006 election - they specifically, with the help of liberal clergy, had a public campaign AGAINST any church that was in any conceivable manner indicating its support of religiously conservative candidates - such as Ken Blackwell in Ohio.

This should be indeed be called to the attention of the IRS - and to the public.


15 posted on 03/05/2007 8:25:54 AM PST by mtntop3 (u)
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To: Vigilanteman

Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards?

Only cowards when it comes to those in the GOP.
I dare any conservative to go to a church, and do what Hitler beast has done.


16 posted on 03/05/2007 8:27:38 AM PST by buck61
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If anyone is violating the sanctity of the Church, it's the people who hand their pulpits over to them. Politicians are leeches, and will suck at any flesh they're given.


17 posted on 03/05/2007 8:28:03 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: carola

Three of her friends were killed in the Birmingham Church bombing.


18 posted on 03/05/2007 8:28:05 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: popdonnelly; janereinheimer

Because the ministers are Democrats.

10 posted on 03/05/2007 9:21:26 AM MST by popdonnelly

The churchs are not for followers of Yah'shua.

The Democrat party supports the murder of babies.

b'shem Yahs'hua
19 posted on 03/05/2007 8:29:03 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHVH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya’aqob.”Isaiah 60:16)
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This is not a problem because it is Democraps.

If a REPUBLICAN were to speak at a church, they would immediately lose their tax-exempt status.


20 posted on 03/05/2007 8:29:59 AM PST by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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