tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post8604574800837823622..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: It's no wonder. . . Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-71560726735188351872018-06-22T14:33:13.757-05:002018-06-22T14:33:13.757-05:00Instead of circling the wagons, Christians need to...Instead of circling the wagons, Christians need to organize and attack with lawsuits those traitors who try to destroy First Amendment rights of Christians.<br /><br />That's what one New Jersey woman did last January when Libby Hilsenrath, with the assistance of the Thomas More Law Center, filed a federal civil rights complaint against the School District of Chatham, aloing with individual school administrators and teachers, in <a href="https://www.thomasmore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/TIMED-STAMPED-HISLSENRATH-COMPLAINT.pdf" rel="nofollow"><i>Hilsenrath v. School District of the Chathams, et al.</i></a> The lawsuit states that the school district offfcials and teachers forced her son to watch Islamic conversion videos and ignored the study of Christianity and Judaism.<br /><br />When the School District sought to have the complaint dismissed, U.S. New Jersey District Court Judge Kevin McNulty, on Wednesday <a href="https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/new-jersey/njdce/2:2018cv00966/365028/22/0.pdf?ts=1529055431" rel="nofollow">denied</a> defendants' motion to dismiss the original complaint. <br /><br />More information is in a January 27, 2018, news article, "<a href="https://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2018/01/chatham_mother_sues_school_district_saying_that_tr.html" rel="nofollow">Chatham mother sues school district for allegedly trying to convert her son to Islam</a>," which includes videos the students were forced to watch, and a June 21, 2018, news artcle, "<a href="https://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2018/06/islamic_conversion_lawsuit_against_school_district.html" rel="nofollow">Mom says, N.J. school tried to make my kid Muslim. Judge says, Go to court</a>."Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-63441547492646750092018-06-21T15:48:37.482-05:002018-06-21T15:48:37.482-05:00We must face the reality that free speech will be ...We must face the reality that free speech will be restricted in the near future. Prohibitions against homosexuality and opposition to LGBT issues will eventually fall under hate speech, as the aim of the liberal agenda moves forward. The hostility against biblical Christianity is growing day by day. To expect this will abate or be stalled by legal or even Constitutional means cannot be guaranteed. In my view, the process will be speeded up should the American people elect a Democratic Party majority. Let's face it, our country is being rapidly moved left by the combined strength of the universities, the media, the courts, and the political establishment. I believe even most church denominations will only offer a tepid response and little resistance.<br /> John Joseph Flanaganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06596324816480709495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-62118741496349024112018-06-21T15:22:36.918-05:002018-06-21T15:22:36.918-05:00And yet....the lectionaries to not contain texts t...And yet....the lectionaries to not contain texts that require addressing current social issues. In 30 years of preaching, I have never addressed homosexuality, though I have addressed abortion on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (and lost our largest contributor over it when I held my ground in her expression of outrage at me). We don’t address these things in our preaching, though in pastoral care I have addressed everything from euthanazia to transgenderism and every other form of non-sexual sin. It would be an interesting First Ammendment case for our supporting foundations if the government attempted to suppress the speech of clergy.Padre Dave Poedelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14033503960196272783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-80345243192225087602018-06-21T14:09:24.938-05:002018-06-21T14:09:24.938-05:00"Gay conversion therapy."
Would that ki..."Gay conversion therapy."<br /><br />Would that kind of service be prohibited in California or elsewhere in the USA if it were offered as a Christian ministry (as opposed to a secular one)? What if therapy sessions were to be held not in an office suite, but in an office on church property?<br /><br />It would be interesting to see if the courts would try to regulate what is said inside a church building..... The question is would a church be allowed to advertise gay conversion therapy as one of its services offered?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-55748963612638293322018-06-21T06:34:26.195-05:002018-06-21T06:34:26.195-05:00The inexorableness of it all... come quickly Lord ...The inexorableness of it all... come quickly Lord Jesus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com