PASTOR WHO SACKED HIS FLOCK FOR VOTING KERRY IS FORCED TO QUIT
Tyler Roberts
(EAST WAYNESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA) The pastor of a Baptist church in North
Carolina who used his pulpit to urge the faithful to support President
George Bush has resigned after nine members of his congregation accused him
of throwing them out over their political beliefs. The controversy over
Chan Chandler, the church's 33-year-old preacher who once described John
Kerry as a "non-Christian" who "kills babies", has ignited a national debate
over the growing politicisation of America's religious institutions - itself
a symptom of the ever more poisonous divide between Republicans and
Democrats. The Rev Chandler's resignation on Tuesday evening came as a
surprise to his supporters in the tiny town of East Waynesville, because he
had previously sought to deny that he had tried to throw out anyone.
American churches are not allowed to give voting instructions to their
congregations, first because of the constitutional separation of church and
state and second because of the terms of their charity status under the
federal tax code.
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