Posted on 12/02/2005 3:21:34 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
Scrambling to maintain fragile friendships with Jewish groups, local and national officials of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are distancing themselves from a meeting in Lebanon between a Hezbollah commander and a Presbyterian delegation that included the denomination's Chicago leader.
Jay Rock, the church's national coordinator for interfaith relations, promised Jewish leaders in a letter this week that Presbyterians would develop guidelines for members traveling in troubled regions, saying those at the Hezbollah meeting should have made clear the church's positions "against terrorism in any form, and for the security and vitality of Israel."
At the same time, the Rev. Robert Reynolds, Chicago's executive presbyter, said in a letter Thursday that he regretted attending the meeting because Hezbollah "used the group's visit for political purposes." Leaders of the church's local governing council wrote a letter emphasizing that Mr. Reynolds was not functioning in his official capacity on the trip.
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After this scandal broke, the minister issued a moral equivalence statement, and has set his sail to the wind, showing ZERO moral fiber.
When the church hit me up for the capital campaign, I told the minister, in barely polite language, to bugger off.
The annual campaign letter JUST arrived yesterday. I do SO look forward to the black clad fraud trying to gather up the nerve to hit me up again.
You may want to ask your minister about Nuhad Tomeh. He is the PCUSA missionary who has made the arrangements for these visits with Hezbollah. Here is the PCUSA website
http://www.pcusa.org/missionconnections/profiles/tomehn.htm
Supporters of Islamo-Fascists BUMP!
Wiesenthal Center Denounces Presbyterian Church Leaders' Metting With Hezbollah Terrorist Commander
Imagine that!
Reynolds regrets getting caught with his hand in the Hezbollah cookie jar.
Reynolds hopes that people have forgotten that Ron Stone used the same excuse last year that he did not know Hezbollah would use the visit for political purposes.
"When you are in the hole, stop digging."
And the standard-bearer of the conservative movement within the mainline Protestant churches is the Institute on Religion and Democracy
http://www.ird-renew.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvKVLfMVIsG&b=278604
Jarringly, he's a clever and literate "nice guy". But "it just goes to show you" that you never really know someone til the chips are down.
Are they still onto the divestiture campaign?
Now they're playing the "let's 'invest' in 'both peoples'" game.
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