Call the IRS. Time to check up on their non-political tax-exempt status.
No, ladies and gentlemen. But I DO think we should have the common courtesy to offer the insurgents a reacharound.
When you let intellectual lightweights take over your church, you get asinine statements like this.
Is the conflict in IRaq part of a "just war." I think so, and so does the President, who is also a Methodist.
Our bishops tend to be liberal, politically motivated, and totally untrained on military subjects. That's why is fairly easy to ignore them when they get on one of their utopian binges.
Another thing to notice about this statement is that it obviously was written by a committee and then a body in session. One side wants us to be a pacifist denomination; the other wants to allow for just war.
From the 2004 BOD, probably about Para 161 or 162 - We believe war is incompatible with the teachings and example of Christ.We therefore reject war as an instrument of national foreign policy, to be employed only as a last resort in the prevention of such evils as genocide, brutal suppression of human rights, and unprovoked international aggression.
We insist that the first moral duty of all nations is to resolve by peaceful means every dispute that arises between or among them; that human values must outweigh military claims as governments determine their priorities; that the militarization of society must be challenged and stopped; that the manufacture, sale, and deployment of armaments must be reduced and controlled; and that the production, possession, or use of nuclear weapons be condemned.
Consequently, we endorse general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.
I agree, we should withdraw from Iraq immediately
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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
Posted on 11/15/2007 3:43:17 AM PST by Kevmo
The goal of the U.S. in Iraq and elsewhere in the MidEast if to remove the forces of evil and bring peace to that part of the world. This goal is consistent with the Government’s responsibility to protect it’s people.
The real peacemakers are those who risk their lives, (be they American Iraqi, or any of the Coalition forces,) that peace might have a chance.
Name one religious leader in the world who supports them, and seeks peace in a meaningful way - other than one one who came to bring peace 2000 years ago.