Keith Olbermann is about to report on the church in East Waynesville, NC!

[Catherine Vincent]

He will interview a Bush supporter that didn't agree with the expelling of the Kerry voters!

[Catherine Vincent]

1. On the tv screen....DEMOCRATS NOT WELCOME

You go Keith!

[neuvocat]

2. Serves them right.

They should be ashamed for letting politics overtake them like that.

[Catherine Vincent]

3. I hope you guys are listening.

David Richardson is telling the whole story!

Hold on.

[ananda]

5. groucho

I'd never want to belong to a fundie church that would want me as a member.

heehee.. or something like that.

Sue

[Horse with no Name]

4. "This will be a political voting church"

per the man on Olbermann.
Time to tax this organization.

[Catchawave]

20. Most church people have to "tithe" right?

that is, to be a member, give 10% of their annual family income?

:shrug: If I put that much in a savings account, I'm taxed on the interest. I just don't get this political church stuff tax hoo-ha.

[FreedomAngel82]

21. Is there a way

to get a video of this segment?

[Catherine Vincent]

25. Dzika to the rescue!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3611320

[Catherine Vincent]

6. The pastor did say it will be a politically run church.

At the deacon's meeting he said if you will not support who I support, then you need to get out of the church. Repent or get out. And when the nine members did, the others stood up and cheered.

[im10ashus]

7. Does this mean they will now pay taxes? n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Oooh, this guy is ragging on women now!

Why the smart women in his church are letting the men tell them who to vote for!

[Gold Metal Flake]

9. "I vote how god wants me to vote"

Guided by voices.


Wait, now the guy sez women should not let someone tell them how to vote? My head is spinning!

[KittyWampus]

10. A Pottie Trained Cat!!!

:D

[Horse with no Name]

11. Wow

He supported Bush. But then he said he couldn't believe that the women in the congregation would stand there and let a man tell them how to vote after they fought all those years to get voting rights.

[KittyWampus]

12. THAT Wasn't The Pastor, If I Got That Right. It Was A Member?

[libnnc]

14. That was a member

the pastor wont talk to the media at all

[charlyvi]

15. That was a member of the congregation.

Or an ex-member; it doesn't sound like he approves of the pastor's dictator tendencies.

[Catherine Vincent]

13. I heard him too. This guy is my kind of republican.

That's how a lot of the republicans get into office. The women let their republican mate tell them who to vote for!

[G_j]

16. Bush supporter :

sounded very committed in his opposition ("our side") to the preacher's policies.

what did he say about being required to sign cards?

[libnnc]

17. that according to Chandler, all new members would

be required to sign plege cards stating that they would support the politicians he told them to.

pretty effed up, eh?

[G_j]

19. I have a feeling

he will be history because the church could lose it's tax exempt status over this. His "sermons" are also on tape as evidence.

will he then be made into a persecuted martyr? probably

[ktowntennesseedem]

28. I just wondering if the pastor and what's left of the church

will expect Shrub to come to their rescue (a la Schiavo) and defend their rights to be a "politically run church" (oxymoron of the year!). They won't touch this one with a ten foot pole, but I'd love to watch 'em squirm their way around this issue. We need to keep it kicked until enough MSM coverage produces a few choice questions at a future WH press conference.

[FreedomAngel82]

23. That's disgusting

This guy should have something happen to him. Can he be arrested for stuff like that? Isn't that a form of blackmail?

[Horse with no Name]

18. These people were religiously persecuted

Matthew 7:1-7:5
1 "Judge not, that you be not judged. 2For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Luke 9:54-56
54And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?"55But He turned and rebuked them, and said, "You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them." And they went to another village.

James 4:11-12
11Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?

[brettdale]

22. does this church have an email address and webpage?

does this church have an email address and webpage?

[Bozita]

29. a fellow DUer just bought the domain name

It's the title of another thread here in GD.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3608247

[Stinky The Clown]

24. The guy KO had on by phone was a member - and remarkably reasonable

and rational. After the segment, I'd have to say I respect the guy he had on. I may disagree with him on his politics, and I think they way he chooses his vote is a little different from how I do it ('God tells me how to vote. Not in a voice, but I get a feeling as to who the best candidate is.'), but he seems not to be a fire breathing bigot. His remarks about women ('I can't beleive they'd go along with the pastor after all the years they fought to get the rights they have.') were quite interesting. Based only on that several minute segment, I'd say he had an open mind, and could well be persuadable.

The highlight was the guy having said 'I don't like the pastor telling us how to vote. And I don't think Jesus would either."

Very interesting, indeed.

[Catherine Vincent]

26. Yes, I said above that this cat was the kind of republican I like.

He's not like the usual fire breathing republican.

[libnnc]

27. Fierce independence and complete self-reliance and autonomy

are the hallmarks of the Appalachian psyche.

"Don't tell me how to live my life or how to vote my politics and I'll keep my mouth off of yours."

That's REAL mountain spirit.

[Blue Gardener]

30. Anyone know the number of church members?

It's probably in one of the other posts on this topic, but it will take more time than I have right now to go through them all to find it.