Posted on 06/12/2020 6:22:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A church that served the local community for years found its lease canceled this week. Had the pastor been accused of sexually assaulting someone or embezzling funds? Had the church preached a message of true hate or intolerance? No, the city revoked the church’s lease because the pastor had committed the heinous sin of “liking” tweets exposing Democrat hypocrisy. Among others, he had “liked” a tweet daring to criticize His Holiness Barack Obama for golfing when his wife, Michelle, urged members of the black community to stay home to stop the spread of the coronavirus (yes, this happened).
There was simply no other remedy. The Housing Authority of the Birmingham District Board of Commissioners just had to revoke the lease of the Church of the Highlands. It’s not like the pastor had apologized for his heinous sin or preached a sermon condemning racism, or anything. Oh wait, he did both? Well, apparently that’s immaterial.
The Housing Authority terminated its partnership with the Church of the Highlands on Monday, claiming a disagreement with the “views” of Pastor Chris Hodges, AL.com reported. In doing so, the authority severed an agreement dating back to 2017 which allowed the church to provide resident outreach programs and social services at its Campus of Hope in the Marks Village Public Housing community. The Campus of Hope provided mentoring, community support groups, and faith and social service activities that promote volunteerism. Church of the Highlands (COTH) provided these services at nine of the housing authority’s public housing communities.
AL.com noted that “HABD did not pay COTH for their services. The vote to cancel the memorandum with COTH will also end services provided by The Dream Center and Christ Health Center, which are ministries within the COTH.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
This condemnation of Hodges’ “values” appears to be a reference to tweets the pastor “liked.” The controversy traces back to a Birmingham high school English teacher who exposed the mean pastor’s nefarious social media button-pushing.
Jasmine Faith Clisby, the English teacher in question, discovered that — horror of horrors! — Pastor Hodges had “liked” tweets from Charlie Kirk, founder of the — gasp! — conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA. She revealed the pastor’s social media sins in a Facebook post that received wide attention.
Clisby, who teaches at Carver High School and is working on a doctorate in education, told AL.com, “I would be upset if it comes off as me judging him. It’s not that. I’m not saying he’s a racist. I’m saying he likes someone who posts things that do not seem culturally sensitive to me.”
What a saint! She won’t even accuse the pastor of being a racist, just being tangentially associated with things that “do not seem culturally sensitive to me.” How considerate! How woke!
Of course, Clisby’s totally-not-judgmental crusade against Hodges included condemning the pastor for following Kirk on social media. “One of the main things Kirk harps on is white privilege being a myth. I found something troubling. I can’t see into Pastor Hodges’ heart,” Clisby said. She also admitted, “I do not attend Church of the Highlands.”
HERE IS WHAT THE PASTOR PREACHED THE PREVIOUS SUNDAY ( YOU TELL ME IF HE IS RACIST ):
On Sunday, Pastor Hodges preached, “White supremacy or any supremacy other than Christ, is of the devil.” He went on, “I want you to know that I believe it makes God angry and it makes us angry too. I know we need to do something. We need to pray. We need to be the church. But Proverbs 31 says to speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves. Ensure justice for those who are being crushed. Think of that verse. Speak up for the poor and the helpless. Be sure that they get justice.”
It is hard to live in a world with such narrow minded intolerant souls. I like Turning Point USA. They need to be heard. Tell the City of Birmingham that Change is in the air.
Why has a lawsuit not been filed? This is illegal religious discrimination.
Birmingham has become Harare
We used to have a Constitution. Oh well.
And yet no one can cancel a Planned Parenthood lease because of Constitution grounds of access to abortion or some Bullstalin.
This isn't the role of government. Sue.
Jasmine Faith Clisby is a perfect Karen..
The city of Birmingham does not want vulnerable black children to learn that white people love them and want to show them how to help themselves. This will backfire on Birmingham. God will answer the prayers of those folks who have been begging for help for years. The government has done nothing good. No surprise. But Christians stepped in to fill the void. It will work out for good.
God is great!
Repent. Believe. Pray. And love God.
Some friends go to a different campus of the same church. The self righteous losers who got him kicked out have endangered a very large social outreach program that helps tons of people.
But who cares? The pastor clicked a button and must be destroyed
This tells us that the Fraud’s rodeo clown wasn’t punished harshly enough.
Every part of the country is being affected in some way. There is nowhere to hide.
Unless one lives in an area where there are no black people for miles and no white kids between 18 and 35 fir miles.
Because at least a portion of those are going to be against what we believe
We used to have a Constitution. Oh well.
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That was before both parties decided to abrogate it and allow a Kenyan/British subject/Indonesian into the Oval Office.
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