Saturday, July 10, 2010

Unbelievable

Those are the only words that come to mind. Read it and weep:

"Pastor Yanked From Capitol Over 'Jesus' Prayer"

A North Carolina pastor was relieved of his duties as an honorary chaplain of the state house of representatives after he closed a prayer by invoking the name of Jesus.

“I got fired,” said Ron Baity, pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. He had been invited to lead prayer for an entire week but his tenure was cut short when he refused to remove the name Jesus from his invocation.

Baity’s troubles began during the week of May 31. He said a House clerk asked to see his prayer. The invocation including prayers for our military, state lawmakers and a petition to God asking him to bless North Carolina.”

“When I handed it to the lady, I watched her eyes and they immediately went right to the bottom of the page and the word Jesus,” he told FOX News Radio. “She said ‘We would prefer that you not use the name Jesus. We have some people here that can be offended.’”


We have become a country, where, for the most part we have turned away from God. We'll see where that gets us as a nation.

* For the full story, the link is here: "Pastor Fired"

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