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A new NBC News poll puts Obama within 3 points of McCain in increasingly purple Virginia.
But Virginian/McCain backer Jerry Falwell has a plan to get his 10,500 Lynchburg-based students to the polls:
To make sure students don't have any excuses for not voting, Falwell has canceled classes on Election Day and has arranged for city buses to take students to the polls. Liberty already pays the city to allow students to ride its buses at no charge.
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Maybe he rose three days later and no one heard about it.
And Jerry Falwell Jr. said that he wasn't going to endorse anyone? Yeah right.
This is Terrible!
How can our society survive with these indoctrinators in charge of teaching our young people??!!!
How can they dare to present only one side of the argument???!
How they dare to preach religious beliefs as if it there was any good science attached to them???!!
How dare they mess around with the schedules and let students out to go vote?!!!
Hey…. Am not talking about Jerry Falwell's school…
…I am talking about the Public School, colleges and Universities where you are sending your Kids!!
This obvious attempt to coerce young voters is another example of how Taliban-like our nation's religious right has become in short steps over a period of decades. If one examines closely the New Testament book of Matthew, Chapter 28, verses 19-20 wherein Christians are charged to "...go ye therefore and teach all nations...," there is no mention of intimidation, coercion, or any other strong-arm tactics. Christians are charged in God's Word to TEACH instead -- meaning talk with others and show by example -- the recipient's right is to choose their own beliefs and actions according to their own opinion, which is truly what freedom and religious liberty are all about. Endorsing a political party or candidate in a thinly-veiled way to avoid violation of the separation-of-church-and-state laws, and using a pulpit to coerce others and exercise inappropriately a minister's influence over his congregation is just one short step away from the old KKK modus-operandi. They "have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God," to quote another scripture.
DelbertR; Have you been to a college campus lately?Any campus?Have you heard the first grade students singing the obama song?Do you think these students are choosing their own beliefs. Stop using the church as a crutch for your liberalizim
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