City Board Ends Partnership with Christian Church Over Pastor ‘Liking’ Conservative Memes

LifeSite News ^ | 7/16/20 | Martin Burger

[marshmallow]

Senior pastor Chris Hodges had liked tweets by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, July 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Local government authorities ended a partnership with a Christian church in Alabama offering outreach programs at public housing communities after a senior pastor was criticized online for liking several conservative-based memes.

The church also was banned from leasing public high schools for its worship services.

According to a report by AL.com, senior pastor Chris Hodges was first denounced by high school English teacher Jasmine Faith Clisby, who pointed out on Facebook that “Hodges, founder of the Church of the Highlands, repeatedly ‘liked’ social media posts by (Charlie) Kirk.”

Kirk is the founder and president of Turning Point USA, a national student movement promoting the principles of free markets and limited government among young people.

Clisby does not even attend services at that church and admitted that she was “not saying he’s a racist. I’m saying he likes someone who post (sic) things that do not seem culturally sensitive to me.”

Kirk has argued frequently on Twitter that the concept of “white privilege” does not exist in reality, and instead talked about a “good choice privilege.” According to Kirk, making three good choices would lead to a person not living in poverty in America: graduating high school, getting a job, and getting married before having kids.

[Jane Long]

Clisby does not even attend services at that church and admitted that she was “not saying he’s a racist. I’m saying he likes someone who post (sic) things that do not seem culturally sensitive to me.”

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Clisby’s Karenitis is culturally sensitive, to me.

[madison10]

Thought police attack.

[Eagles6]

Hodges should have seen what happened to Drew Brees and learned his lesson.

Don't apologize.

It only shows that you're weak and then they come in for the kill.

In the end you're just a spineless fool without dignity.

[shelterguy]

Just another quidnunc who is offended by everything.

[Arcadian Empire]

You Will Conform To The Ideology Of The State.

[P-Marlowe]

We are in a war. Pick a side.

[a fool in paradise]

English teacher, huh?

Hand her Orwell’s 1984 and quiz her over it by the end of the week.

[a fool in paradise]

She’s chosen a side and is indoctrinating “your” kids/grandkids/neighbors’ kids

[Lee N. Field]

My pastor is extremely reticent on the Book of Faces. Wise.

Now y'all see why I like having an internet pseudonym.

[A_perfect_lady]

She’s probably never read anything except the Cliffs Notes version of Beloved.

[Secret Agent Man]

Libtards gets to live their values

You dont

Wake the phuck up people

You want a society that values the shiite they value, or the things and ideas and principles you value

Because thats what the law is

Whose value system will it reflect and whose will it criminalize

You know what the libtards do with the law when they are in charge

They are doing it right now

Too many appeasers and supporters on this site of the libtards

You better wake up you little stasi enablers

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

According to Kirk, making three good choices would lead to a person not living in poverty in America: graduating high school, getting a job, and getting married before having kids.

I believe that comes from Shelby Steele. Who, if I remember correctly, is black.

[apoliticalone]

Leftists are the real racists and haters.

[certrtwngnut]

Every day we get closer and closer to some sort of confrontation with these proggs. I don’t profess to know what or when the confrontation will be but I think it is very close. I know that I personally have had just about enough. I wish I was 29 instead of 79.

[a fool in paradise]

Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w

“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”

“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”

“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”

“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”

“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”

Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo

“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”

Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff

[a fool in paradise]

Larry Elder played part of a speech by Barack Obama that I think was pre-2008.

then Senator Obama said that it was wrong thinking to shame someone for picking up a book to read and study and said that people should get married if they are going to have some kids.

[ocrp1982]

This happened in ALABAMA. Is there no city with a mayor and city council that isn’t comprised of Woke Leftists or Spineless Republicans???

[Guenevere]

I could be ‘all in’ for the pastor.....except for that appeasement apology!

Stand by your decisions man!

You’re just ceding ground to them without a fight!

[Eagles6]

Yep.