Posted on 07/03/2009 11:56:19 AM PDT by IbJensen
A Pennsylvania pastor rejected by the state's House of Representatives will pray in the Senate instead.
The pastor is Gerry Stoltzfoos of Freedom Valley Worship Center in Gettysburg. He was asked to pray before the House by his own representative and sent officials a written prayer on their request.
"I wrote the prayer and sent it to them and they sent back a very short rejection notice," he recalls. "So I wrote back, 'I'm curious as to why.' And they said it had an offensive word. Can you tell me what the word was?' And they came back and said 'Jesus.'"
Stoltzfoos says he prays in Jesus' name because Jesus instructed him to do so in the Bible. He contends the censorship puts him at odds with his strongly held religious beliefs. Stoltzfoos also told OneNewsNow that House Speaker Keith McCall stated that he was trying to avoid a lawsuit over church-state issues.
Pennsylvania"Ironically, I've had two or three organizations now beg me to allow them to represent me in a lawsuit on the other side, so he may be creating a lawsuit more than preventing one. I don't know," he adds.
Stoltzfoos admits he wants no part of a lawsuit and is not showing off. He claims he is simply standing by his religious discipline. Senator Rich Alloway (R-Pennsylvania) heard the story and has invited Stoltzfoos to pray before the state Senate on July 29.
The vast majority of Americans don’t reject Jesus.
Makes no sense that it would present a lawsuit risk for the House, but not for the Senate.
I’ve got a great Scripture for the PA House of Representatives. In the words of Jesus himself:
Matt 10:32 “Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. 33 But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.”
Do they think their political correctness will make them right with the Father? Forget it!
Jesus will have the last laugh.
SnakeDoc
This Nation was founded on Christian principles. It's high time we took it back from the Godless who are destroying it's foundation.
We'll have to take it back from the godless marxists who are ruling and ruining our lives and our nation first!
Pennsylvania is a screwed-up state. Just look at what they elect for governor and for both houses of Congress.
I wonder what the name was of the person who sent these responses?
Indeed. I do believe that they do reject a certain pedophile "prophet" who shall remain nameless(feces be upon him) however.
All he had to do was invoke the name of the founder of the violent worldwide expansionist movement that kills Jews and Christians and he would be reinvited.
It’s OUR FAULT for allowing the left to distort, misrepresent and outright lie about the Constitution of the United States.
Good question.
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