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Comment from: Chuck Bloom [Visitor] Email
Again, just another example of how twisted politics have become in Collin County.
And yet the voters permit this fiasco. Hell I hope this idiots stop all construction and steal all the money! This county would deserve it!
09/21/09 @ 10:32
Comment from: Scot Walker [Visitor] Email
I find this post a bit amusing considering Obama listened to the sermons of a racist and anti-Semite for 20 years.
09/21/09 @ 13:25
Comment from: GETOVERIT [Visitor] Email
Guess we can't use churches for voting locations either.
Heaven forbid someone might see a cross there.
09/21/09 @ 16:29
Comment from: Chuck Bloom [Visitor] Email
As a non-Christian, I don't mind voting at a church ... however I DO strenuously object when that host church spreads its evangelical literature all in front of you while waiting in line to vote. It is inappropriate, and to many of us, offensive. It ain't a Sunday sermon; it's voting.
And Scot, just because the Ku Klux Klan considers itself to be a faith-based organization doesn't mean all white Southern Christians are bigots; only the racist ones.
09/21/09 @ 22:31
Comment from: Steve H [Visitor] Email
To quote another great father of our country John Adams “We recognize no Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!”. Chuck you should really read some of the Love and Peace that is in the Christian literature. It may just temper your hostile mood a bit. The Baptist Church the meeting is being held in is simply a building for public a gathering. I, being a Baptist, would object if the pastor were invited to speak at the meeting as well but he isn't.
09/22/09 @ 09:04
Comment from: Chuck Bloom [Visitor] Email
Steve H.,
It sets a bad precedent. County business should be conducted at a county facility - not a private entity, which is what a church is. I'd have the same objection if the meeting were held at Collin Creek Mall or someone's house.
And why would a person of the Jewish faith be considered "hostile" because he/she doesn't want to have stuff shoved in their face about a different faith? Besides, almost HALF the "Founding Fathers" were Unitarians ... look it up. And please, people, quit this faux-theocracy crap speech. It's demeaning to others...
09/22/09 @ 10:37
Comment from: James L. [Visitor] Email
While you are certainly welcome to have your opinions in the aforementioned article, I can't understand why you have included "the wall of separation between Church and State" as the basis of the opinion. Please read the letter written to Mr. Jefferson by the Danbury Baptists and the response by President Jefferson and you will find nothing that in any way would prohibit the Collin County Commissioners from meeting in a church.
09/29/09 @ 16:12
Comment from: bill [Member] Email
James,

Thank you for your comment. I have read many interpretations of the Danbury Baptist letter.

My chief objection to the meeting in Melissa Baptist is that the pastor is a political activist with an agenda. The county government is getting too close to that church - they have hired the pastor to do workshops and have appointed him 'chaplain'.

I suppose you know that Jefferson was no Christian and that he abhorred the political exploitation of religion.

There is an interesting analysis of Jefferson's motives and the different views that contemporary Republicans and Federalists had concerning the expression of religion in public life on the Library of Congress's website http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danbury.html

The Library of Congress page points out that:

After he wrote the letter to the Danbury congregation, Jefferson wrote to his Attorney General, Levi Lincoln explaining that he had two motives in writing the letter to the Baptists.

First was to issue a "condemnation of the alliance between church and state."

The second was to take the opportunity for "saying why I do not proclaim fastings & thanksgivings, as my predecessors did"

Thanks again for your comments.


Bill
09/29/09 @ 23:20
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10/25/09 @ 14:41

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