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Seems a "preacher" is demanding the government support his "church."


Baptist Editor Wants State Funds to Win Converts
By wilkyjr Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 09:25:19 AM EST

In what is a radical departure from Baptist protocol, an editor of a
Baptist splinter group in Texas has called for state funding of religion.
Baptists used to champion the  cause that govenrment should not prop up
religion.  Baptist in early New England did not want to pay taxes that went
to supporting religious doctrines they did not agree with.  Things are
changing.

Gary Ledbetter, editor of the news magazine for Southern Baptists of Texas,
a group that left traditional Baptist work in the state, has a new view of
Baptist life.  Gary wants the state to give money for church ministries and
that money be used to discriminate against other faiths in hiring
practices.  He also sees nothing wrong with the state funds being used to
win converts.  Writing in the December 31, 2008 isue of SOUTHERN BAPTIST
TEXAN, Gary fears the new president will reverse a practice instigated by
current President Bush.

"Most of the money handed out by Catholic Charities comes from the
government.  Many denominational social programs have government funding.
These groups practice a separation of ministries.  They historically have
not used state funds to promote their faith or discriminate in hiring.
Bush and his administration promised to allow this."

This is the same magazine that claimed that the reason a gun man shot and
killed several church members in Fort Worth is because of the separation of
church and state.

http://tinyurl.com/73yzd6

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