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voting democrat = excommunication
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Posting Junkie
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That's what the secret ballot is for. It'd be hard to get excommunicated for voting for a certain candidate if you don't tell 'em how you voted. This sounds pretty illegal - how did these jerks find out who voted for Bush and who didn't?
Shouldn't this be in the political lounge?
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Another 40 members have left in protest.
they finally saw the light
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The excommunicated members shouldn't worry. This is North Carolina. Another Baptist church can't be more than 50 feet away.
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I wonder if this'll affect their tax exemption. I'd expect so, but tax isn't my thing.
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This and all my other posts are hereby in the public domain. I am a lawyer. But I'm not your lawyer, and this isn't legal advice.
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1. Telling how they voted. (Free)
2. Seeking damages from a lawyer when getting kicked out of their church. (Who knows?$$$)
3. Voting for Kerry showing how stupid they really are.. (Priceless)
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Originally Posted by budster101
1. Telling how they voted. (Free)
2. Seeking damages from a lawyer when getting kicked out of their church. (Who knows?$$$)
3. Voting for Kerry showing how stupid they really are.. (Priceless)
 indeed.
On the subject at hand, churches are private organizations. If some priest wants to kick out whoever for supporting something or someone that is against an ideal his group stands for, it's his right. If you decide to scream and yell in a store and are thrown out for that, you don't see that making a "FREEDOM OF SPEECH BEING CRUSHED!" headline. If these people were being kicked out of the church because they congregated to murder a bunch of children this would not get the same reaction.
There is nothing shocking about this news article, and I'm surprised this has not happened sooner or more often.
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Genius. You know who.
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Although this isn't technically illegal, it's not likely to do much for the popularity of that church, even among Southern Baptists. These things have a way of working themselves out, so I'm not terribly worried.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Tax law in this country is such that if he preaches support for a particular party, all members lose their tax deduction for their contributions and the church loses its tax status and must pay income taxes on its "profits". Note that last October the IRS was investigating major Democratic groups and can not ignore this occurrence.
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