[Vision2020] kirk email

[Bill London]

In the example I listed in my earlier email (Wilson testifying at Moscow city council about nudity ordinance), Wilson specifically spoke not as an individual, but representing his church (and the voters who are church members).
And that is just one example of Wilson's political agenda in action.  The entire pro-slavery lovefest-marriage with the neo-confederates is another.
BL
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Cc: Douglas 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:52 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] kirk email


  Dale Wrote (see his link):

  The U.S. Supreme Court held in McDaniel v. Paty (1978) that ministers may serve in state legislatures and hold public office. If a minister may serve in a public office, certainly he may testify as an individual before a public office. Just because you are a pastor doesn't mean that you lose your rights to speak. But that doesn't keep zealots from fighting for that result. 

   

  Me:

  I just called Wilson to confirm what I thought his position on this is.  Generally speaking (i.e. with qualifications regarding abnormal times, etc) Wilson is very sympathetic with law not permitting an active minister to also hold public office.  And I know I don't think a minister should be permitted to hold public office while they are actively serving as a minister (although Dale's statement of the ruling is ambiguous here).  Wilson can testify as an individual, and I'd think he could even testify as a prophet from God,  but I don't think that MCDaniel v. Paty is a good justification for it, although it certainly seems to legally justify it.  Separation of Church and State is a wonderful fruit of Christianity.  

   

  Now we can all be friends and start talking about sex again. :-)

   

  Thanks!

  Michael Metzler

   



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