From Rogue:

Daily Kos (twice), Democratic Underground, and Dem Bloggers (here, here, here, here, and here) (has news clip on most of them) all have posted about East Waynesville Baptist Church in North Carolina excommunicating their Democrat members. Church members were told that if they voted for John Kerry that they were against the church and that they needed to repent and support George Bush, or get out of the church. Forty church members left in protest. You can read more about it here and here.

This is the sickest display of bastardized doctrine that I have seen in a long time. It is bad enough that Christians have been bombarded with the politics of the Religious "Right" for the last five years, but when it leads to churches kicking out members ... then it has gone too far. And, I just don't get it. Pat Robertson is not the Messiah and his, and his ilk's, continued message of hatred towards anyone who is Liberal is wrong. Anyone who supports tearing the church apart is not doing what the Bible calls for us to do. Let alone what Jesus has taught us.

I caught the story on CNN the other day and have been meaning to Blog it. Rogue does a better job of it than I could. Because I was just going to call the guy an idiot and anyone who stayed in his church worse...

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