[Vision2020] Pat Kraut, area churches, and teachings about homosexuality

[Joan Opyr]

Dear Visionaries:

Pat Kraut seems to be buying into the Christ Church party line that 
they are being "targeted" for their position on homosexuality, e.g., 
that their property tax and zoning problems have something -- anything 
-- to do with the Church's homophobic agenda.  This is bunkum.  It's a 
straw man, a red herring, a load of old hooey.  I know of no other 
church in town that has tried seven ways to Sunday to evade paying any 
property tax owed or has attempted to set up an educational institution 
where educational institutions are not allowed -- not the Lutherans, 
not the Mormons, not the Catholics, and not the real PCUSA 
Presbyterians.  If Doug Wilson and company weren't running so damned 
many scams you need a set of bingo cards to keep up with them, no one 
would give a tinker's cuss about what they preach.  Freedom of religion 
means the freedom to believe and to proclaim whatever ridiculous, 
wonderful, impossible, irrational, miraculous, Biblically-inerrant 
goofy thing you like.  What it does not mean is freedom to break, bend, 
or twist the law.  There's a difference between religious persecution 
and righteous prosecution, and Doug Wilson is down on his hands and 
knees, working like the dickens to erase that distinction.  Good thing 
it's written in ink and not chalk, eh?

Speaking of which, I see that one of Ralph Reed's affiliates has just 
gotten caught with its hands in the Faith-based Initiatives till -- 
buying luxury cars for its ministers/executives with our tax dollars.  
Imagine, good Christian folk, fleecing Uncle Sam.  Talk about shock and 
awe . . .

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com