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I think afc president JOHN Thomas is far to obsessed with homosexuals I think he protest far to much this guy is a closet queen I believe .........he is very fem when I see him on TV Arkansas family council is ran by a big old closet queen I think . he wants all gays and lesbian families to be afraid of him I'm not hey max I voted no on ACT ONE THANKS FOR KEEPING THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE OK .

RLR

Rev Lowell is not blowing smoke. He acts upon his beliefs. He readily tells listeners that he was
"born with a silver spoon" while he seeks to set right the injustices in our society. His sermons will inspire you whether you're a believer or not. He openly accepts diverse people into his church.

Rev Lowell founded and oversees the Seven Hills Homeless Shelter in Fayetteville where ANYONE can go eat, free of charge or make a donation. Lodging provided for single parent families. He has sponsored outreach to the Marshallese community. He is active in Am Civil Liberties Union meaning he supports ALL Ten Bill of Rights Amendments. His church is one of the most active and involved places in Fayetteville or NWA.

Additionally, Mrs Grisham manages the only free medical clinic in NWA, Springdale's Community Clinic.

Both outstanding people.

Glad this cause attracts such wonderful folks.

And a loud Shout-Out to my friend Rev Wendell Griffen who carries a Bible in one breast pocket, a copy of the Constitution in the other and uses this spine to hold both upright.

Amen!
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I bet these fine pastors are as sick as i am of having the likes of Jerry Cox give Christianity a bad name.

"Cohabitating" simply means living together in one household. Initiated Act 1 does not say "having sex"; just that two unmarried individuals are living in the same home. But in these economic times, there is a Hell of a lot more "cohabitating" going on in order to minimize expenses: siblings, friends, relatives, adult children moving back home with Mom or Dad, and even older divorced or widowed parents moving in with their adult children.

Initiated Act 1 takes none of that into consideration, and would force a judge to disqualify anyone living in any of the above situations. The people at AFC hate homosexuals so much, that they are willing to hurt anyone in order to discriminate against gays. The Bible has to be interpreted by wrinkled old farts in order to condemn homosexuality, but it is VERY clear on it's condemnation of hate.

Lord lord the things you will see when one goes to vote.....anyone else seen the life-sized

head thingy of moosemama in car windows??? just 'a smiling, winking 'n blinking, all jiggly.....

scared the pee outta me.

Heavy traffic in our voting place, had to wait about 10 mins. for a booth.....hubby said there

will be no one left to vote on nov. 4....I did a bad thing, going out the door, but better shut up.

Durango, Cato...traffic on Higdon backed up from 7 south to MLK causeway, just as bad on

Central...wish those Village people would shop in Benton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea...I'd hate to have the likes of Jerry Cox representing my profession to the world. It'd be like Ann Coulter representing feminists...ouch.

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Kal

'Clergyman', yea. I see the usual assortment of left winger denominations heavily laced with Episcopalians and unitarians. Throw in a few methodists and an odd assortment of american baptists and you have the usual players. These are all notoriously left wing and usually support any crazy 'if it feels good do it' philosophy. Nothing new here.

Strangelove: "an odd assortment of american baptists."

Disinformation, as usual, strangelove.

Rev. Carolyn Staley and Rev. Randy Hyde both attended that Southern Baptist bastion Ouachita University. They are hardly American Baptists.

Rev. Staley and Rev. Hyde are both at Pulaski Heights Baptist in Little Rock. If you had bothered to check the website of that church before posting, you'd find that its statement of affiliations says it is" historically and traditionally affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, and is also actively involved with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

I suppose your comment about American Baptists is aimed at Judge Griffen, but as his signature on this document states, he's a National Baptist--a member of an old and distinguished African-American Baptist convention that is quite distinct from American Baptists.

Indeed, there's not an American Baptist to be found among the signatories.

Does it matter to you whether you post what is true or not, strangelove?

Correction: If you had bothered to check the website of that church before posting, you'd find that its statement of affiliations says it is "historically and traditionally affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention," and is also actively involved with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

So that is the big issue with you---American vs Southern Baptist. You ignore 99% of what I said and concentrate on the 1%. The Southern Baptist Church that I knew in the 50s would have excommunicated them for such apostasy. Pulaski Heights Baptist shouldn't be such a surprise. Renegades exist even in the Southern Baptist Convention unfortunately. I guess you guys are more concerned about swatting gnats than seeing the elephants.

I believe the 'cooperative baptist fellowship' is a renegade group that Jimmy Carter started. They are not in any sense Southern Baptists.

You know Strangey, sometimes you really need to check your facts. The SBC I remember from the 80's was WAY more liberal than after the takeover in the 90's by wingnuts such as yourself.

But I digress. What makes you think the other denominations listed are any less Christian than you? Is it that they follow the command "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, strength and mind..." and "...love thy neighbor as thyself?" I think the rest says "upon THESE TWO hang the SUM of the law and the prophets." Is it because these other denominations would rather express the Love of Christ as opposed to the hateful Pharasee attitude "real" Christians such as yourself have? No wonder Jesus called your lot a den of vipers.

I am a proud parishioner of St. Paul's in Fayetteville and, again, I find myself utterly blown away by Father Lowell's head and heart. Here is an individual that is fighting to right injustice for the proper reasons...not feigning a certain amount of faux disgust at whatever group it is currently popular to denounce (blacks in the 60's, gays in the 90's, those evil unmarried cohabitating sexpots in 2008). Visions of Armani-Ronnie Floyd suddenly spring to mind.

This is a fantastic man fighting for a profoundly important cause. A lesser person might become discouraged because of surely steady attacks by the wingnuts on the right. Not something any of us have to worry about with this one, however...he's doing it out of a sense of heartfelt purpose...not to raise money for his fancy church in Pinnacle. Keep it up Lowell! We're with you!

I speak of the Southern Baptists of the 50s. I have no dealings with them today. Recently, they have made some attempt to bring the denomination back to the beliefs they used to espouse but variants exist today that bear no resemblance to what they used to be.

The Episcopalians, Methodist and Presbyterian USA are all pretty lock step on their road to apostasy. I don't really have to say much about them. Their actions speak for themselves. They certainly love the ways of the world but don't express much genuine and devout love for fidelity to the scriptures and the Lord they claim to serve.

The Unitarians, well, they are a whole different story so I'll just leave them alone.

Jesus repudiated the Pharisees because they went through the motions of devotion to the word but their hearts were not faithful. He said in the book of John that the way to know those who belonged to him was by their faithfulness to his commandments. Today, faithfulness to the word and the Lord is usually replaced by a faithfulness to the ways of the world. Those 'denominations' that have been mentioned have certainly replaced fidelity to the gospel of the Lord for the ways of the world.

Strangelove: "So that is the big issue with you---American vs Southern Baptist."

Nope. The big issue is whether people tell the truth.

Strangelove: "They certainly love the ways of the world but don't express much genuine and devout love for fidelity to the scriptures and the Lord they claim to serve."

Does fidelity to the scriptures include that commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against they neighbor"?

Funny, Strangey, 'cause that's what I see you right wingnuts doing. You want to go on about worshiping the book while ignoring what you want to. Just like a Pharasee would let his mother die on the sabbath rather than walk to get a doctor, you would throw children under the bus to bash the gays. Again, mote and beam... God isn't interested in your sacrifices. He is interested in people. The majority of the message of the gospels is that of loving one another and taking care of eachother. But then Jesus probably wouldn't be welcomed in your church today.

From Larry Gellman's "Thoughts from the Desert Blog" today (http://larrygellman.blogspot.com/2008/10/will-republican-party-survive-and-does.html):

"Just two months ago, I talked with John McCain in Aspen. Since moving to Arizona seven years ago, I have voted for and supported McCain for Senate and always admired his independence and willingness to cross party lines to do the right thing. . . .

Now the mass exodus is underway. Anyone who is fiscally conservative can't call himself a Republican anymore. Anyone who is a religious Christian can't honestly be part of this since Jesus preached about caring for the sick and the poor--not about eliminating reproductive choice or issues related to same-sex marriage. There's nothing Christian about the agenda of the Religious Right--it's a totally political movement focused on issues that Jesus never mentioned and they ignore the issues about which Jesus preached constantly."