[Vision2020] Banned From Church

J Ford privatejf32 at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 19 12:47:02 PST 2008


WOW!  Good questions, all!  Dougie - care to answer why you should be provided services for free?  Seeing how you don't pay taxes or anything.....inquiring minds want to know.

J  :]


> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:10:36 -0800
> From: kmmos1 at verizon.net
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Banned From Church
> 
> On Saturday 19 January 2008 09:48, Tom Hansen wrote:
> > Cops arrest and handcuff little old lady banned from church because she
> > didn't like the pastor.
> <snip>
> > On a quiet Sunday morning in June, as worshippers settled into the pews at
> > Allen Baptist Church in southwestern Michigan, Pastor Jason Burrick       
> > grabbed his cellphone and dialed 911. When a dispatcher answered, the    
> > preacher said a former congregant was in the sanctuary. "And we need to, 
> > um, have her out A.S.A.P."
> > 
> > Half an hour later, 71-year-old Karolyn Caskey, a church member for nearly
> > 50 years who had taught Sunday school and regularly donated 10% of her
> > pension, was led out by a state trooper and a county sheriff's officer.   
> > One held her purse and Bible. The other put her in handcuffs. (Listen to 
> > the 911 call)
> 
> Since when should the local property-tax-paying residents be obligated to 
> provide sergeant-at-arms services to non-property-tax-paying congregations? 
> Should income-tax-paying state residents be obligated to pay for otherwise 
> laudable inter-agency cooperation through such a church-state veil of 
> separation that is not penetrated by income taxes?
> 
> Should the local constabulary send a bill for a service call to the pastor?
> 
> Yes, officers respond to lots of planned organizational activities, but 
> parade permits, for example, can have fees attached to them that are 
> collected in advance. Pastor Burrick knew in advance that he didn't like 
> his long-time parishioner, and should have made arrangements to privately 
> handle her appearance rather than ask the tax-payers for assistance in a 
> non-threatening, non-emergency, non-riot situation. Absent such 
> arrangements, or their feasibility, the pastor deserves service charges.
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
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