Posted on 07/10/2013 3:05:50 AM PDT by markomalley
A newspaper column lampooning Southern Baptists, calling the group "the crazy old paranoid uncle of evangelical Christians," is causing quite a stir in a Kentucky city and put a pastor's job in jeopardy.
The column was written by Angela Thomas, the wife of Bill Thomas, an assistant pastor at the First Baptist Church in Madisonville. Her column was done in response to the Southern Baptist Convention's opposition to a new Boy Scouts of America policy that welcomes gay members.
"Sexuality doesn't come up and isn't relative to typical scouting activities but now, thanks to Southern Baptists, the parents of little innocent scouts everywhere are having to have The Talk," she wrote June 19 in The Madisonville Messenger. She writes a weekly humor column for the community paper, which publishes daily.
In the weeks since, the status of Bill Thomas' job with the church has become unclear. The First Baptist pastor said he had accepted Thomas' resignation, but Thomas' wrote in a letter obtained by the newspaper he had not quit.
Thomas has worked at the church for 10 years and was also its musical director.
Bill and Angela Thomas declined to be interviewed by The Associated Press on Tuesday. But he previously told the newspaper he agreed with what his wife wrote.
The column said Southern Baptists have become "raging Shiite Baptists" after drifting "to the right" for the past four decades.
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It’s part of Rabbinical writings, and where do they get their stuff from?
The Old Testament.
What’s in front of the New Testament?
The Old Testament, except for those books so published that have “an apocrypha” (never read it, but heard of it).
So, by rights, it is part of the Jewish/Christian lexicon.
I reference it, you decide what you wish.
“Sexuality doesn’t come up and isn’t relative to typical scouting activities but now
HUH? I guess this women does not have any children and has never worked in the children’s ministry at her church or in anyway paid any attention to young boys. Sex is always relevant to young boys.
Um, Gee!
I never thought of THAT!!
Why not ask them, Mrs. Don-o!
It might be fun, to see what you find.
Um, a question?
Is that from: the New International Version, The Revised Standard Version, Today’s English Version, The Jerusalem Bible, The King James - New King James Bible, The Douay Version Bible, The Amplified Bible, The Geneva Bible, or The Living Bible, or The Jewish New Testament?
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You can be a Lama. But not a Llama. Bummer.
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they did not learn anything in church
Mamzelle wrote:
“Deacons can’t be divorced in conservative churches, for starters.
—Deacons are not on topic, dear.
I do not have a clue what you mean by board rooms nor do I find it relevant to howchurch leadership works. Baptist churches are run by their membership and are essentially elected.
—You just answered it! First, “you have to be a member”. A lot of churches I have been in touch with, the ‘membership’ votes ‘you’ in, to become a ‘bona fide member’, otherwise, you are just one of the mmany sitting in a pew that ‘don’t count’. Next, these same churches’ ‘membership’ votes for who is to be on ‘the board of elders’, who really run the church, and who can hire and fire a pastor. (Which, by the way, I have always thought that being a pastor, was actually answering the call, and NOT beholding to a corporate board, i.e., the elders, who could pull your license).
These are board room ethics, and are copies of corporations, and also demonstrate that a church has a federal 503c on file, to become stamped as ‘legitimate’ by the federal government’s IRS.
If a pastors wife is stupid enough to hold her own congregation in contempt in public then she must be accountable, unless you suggest she is a minor child or mentally defective. She would be much happier among episcopalians with their homosexual priestesses.
A pastor’s wife, is no different than good ol’ Michelle Obama, and no one has to date tried to keep her silent, have they? “The wife comes as part of the package.”, or so they say.
she has free speech and the church is free to get a new pastor too
her hubby agrees with her garbage
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I think that's a good thing.
Terry I believe you’re on the wrong forum as your constitutional knowledge is lacking. She has free speech to bash her church, and the church has the free speech to fire her husband for agreeing with her mockery of the faith. It is strange to see a Freeper celebrate a far left zealot.
Dear? And a deacon us just another name for pastor. Women were deacons in that time, too. Dear. And their husband’s behavior would have reflected on them. Dear. Leaders are expected to be particularly circumspect and if that doesn’t suit, then font expect to continue in leadership. Dear.
Um, a question?
“Freedom of speech” is about government interference. ONLY!
Not the responses of private individuals to offensive speech so long as it doesn’t interfere with the lives and property of others.
Why don’t more people get that? I understand the ones on the left, but what is the motivation of those on the right?
Cute.
Each church elects deacons, votes on budgets, votes to accept new members, and if the situation came up (I've never seen it myself)could vote to disfellowship a person. This is as close to ‘excommunication’ as Baptists get.
Said person could walk across the street to another Baptist church and join. Or he could gather some like minded persons and start his own church and affiliate it with the SBC, or another convention, or even more than one, or stay independent of any convention.
Freedom through Christ is what makes us great.
A number of us voted to fire her husband. Unfortunately, not enough.
But I have a question for you. Who should be in charge of the church? the pastor? How did he acquire his position? the hiring authority is also the firing authority.
Nobody pulled his license; nobody said he could never work again. Suppose that you were on a website, this one perhaps, and the powers that be decided to crack down on nonsense. Would they be wrong to kick you off? or me, or anyone else who was offending the basic thrust of this site?
Just curious as to what your answer is?
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