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-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to jimmy anderson <=-

 ja>  IJ> I understand if a church wasn't to feed people and what not.  They ne
 ja>  IJ> to stay the eph out of politics.
 ja>
 ja>  AT> It's an abuse of power, and they do it constantly.
 ja>
 ja> I must have missed the original content...
 ja>
 ja> What does this mean exactly?

 AT> I was agreeing with Joe that churches need to stay out of politics. In
 AT> my case it's the Catholic church. They get a large group of us together
 AT> for mass, and they con us into praying for illegal immigrants.

 AT> This is in addition to them taking our donations and spending some of
 AT> the money on attorneys for illegal immigrants.

Though I don't agree with that specific practice, I don't think disallowing
it is the answer. 

I'm a protestant - our church has to have a concensus on how money is
spent. Do you have any input? 



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