Rev. Rick Scarborough: "We're Trying to Mix Church and State God's Way"

[Emit]

Renowned social conservative and self-proclaimed "Christocrat," the Rev. Rick Scarborough of the Harvest Point Church in Nacogdoches led 15 pastors from multiple denominations in a candidate forum on Tuesday. Behind closed doors of the fellowship hall of the First Christian Church, the church leaders interviewed dozens of elected state officials and dozens more local candidates, all seeking to be elected or re-elected to office this year.

"This is the first time we've ever gotten involved in the primaries, so because of the wide range of candidates from supreme court justices to the lone candidate for county surveyor, we had to divide them up into three groups and issue them our questions," Scarborough said. "We first compiled the questionnaire that we had them fill out for us that covered a range of things, including the Mandate to Save America'"

Scarborough and other culturally conservative leaders from around the nation helped draft the Mandate to Save America, which is a 10-point list of ideals that they believe elected leaders should commit to in order to "break the bonds of tyranny and give birth to a new nation of freedom, justice and hope." The mandate calls for the nation to oppose same-sex marriages, give parents control over their child's education and demands the right to publicly acknowledge the existence of God.

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"We want them to vote not as Republicans or Democrats, but as we like to say, followers of Jesus Christ. We're trying to mix church and state God's way."

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[sakabatou]

1. "We're trying to mix church and state God's way."

Theocratic despotism?

[alp227]

2. There! He admitted it!

The Christian Right really wants an American theocracy after all. Never mind all their evasive "oh I really didn't mean that" claims or attacks on the "liberal media" for exposing their words.

[ChicagoSuz219]

5. Love the bumper sticker!! n/t

[Last_Stand]

3. "...demands the right to publicly acknowledge the existence of God."

What fucking planet are these people living on?

[WCGreen]

4. They are forcing a court test of their tax status...

The law is very clear that an organization that enjoy tax free status, a non-prophet (pun intended), is banned by law to openly support and/or endorse political candidates.

I think since the recent ruling of the Supreme Court concerning the opening up of the political discourse to organizations, they are going to try and force a favorable decision on the political standing of non-prophet organizations.

[ChicagoSuz219]

6. Any relation to Morning Joke? n/t

[tanyev]

7. Jesus was pretty clear about a no-mixing policy, Reverend.

Matthew 22:20-22 (New International Version)
20and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"
21"Caesar's," they replied. Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
22When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.


John 18:36 (New International Version)
36Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to
prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place."

[pipi_k]

8. Sigh....I really wish

God would make an appearance and slap these idiots upside the head, then tell them they have no right to declare they KNOW what he would do, when he would do it, or why he would do it.

C'mon God...you need to kick some asshole ass...

[DFW]

9. Transllation: "We're control freaks, and we're trying to have everything our way."

Notice how the ones who insist the most that they know what God wants, always insist that what God
wants is (surprise!!) what they want? Control freaks, every last one of them. "We want..." "We're
trying..." It's always about them and their desire to control things. The God talk is just their
excuse for doing whatever they want to people who believe otherwise.

It's a good thing God isn't in Congress, as the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion...." That covers monotheism and Christianity. Legislators
make laws. People wanting to establish a religion as a matter of state policy need to get out of
politics, and, preferably, out of America.

[spanone]

10. rescind all tax exemptions for these people...IMMEDIATELY

these days we wipe our collective asses with the constitution

what part of church/state separation don't these folks understand?