Sunday, May 08, 2005
National Day of Prayer -- Lakeville style
Posted by:
Hammer / 8:04 AM
When the theocracy comes, the Christians who don't believe the right things will be the first ones against the wall:
We are writing on behalf of our congregation to express our dismay at the planners of the local National Day of Prayer politicizing this community wide event as an occasion for gay bashing and slamming judges who seek with great integrity to do their job according to the laws of the land.
"Judges are legalizing gay marriage and systematically stripping references to God from our culture under the guise of 'separation of Church and State'", declares a flyer delivered to our church.
This may be the view of the fundamentalist Christians who believe they have a corner on truth and morality, but it does not represent what our church believes.
For this reason, as an act of conscience, we have chosen to not participate in this so-called "prayer" day that has become a platform for the Christian Right, nor will we in the future until the planners understand that their narrow theological perspective does not speak for all Christians.
Jan and Joy Linn, co-pastors, Spirit of Joy Church
Sorry, no link. Instructive, eh? When the local National Day of Prayer is so divisive that it sets Protestant Christians one against the other. To say nothing of Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and every other faith represented in our little neck of Christendom.