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lol so this guy’s legacy is ramming his religious beliefs down other people’s throats and protecting churches from accountability
bye, you won’t be missed
Everybody knows that the true path to progress is open heroin consumption, normalization of shoplifting, and sidewalk defecation. Those dumb religious hicks need to just mind their own beezwax.
My favorite was protecting church daycares from accountability for things like letting toddlers wander off and drown in the baptistery (which, reminder, did actually happen here in pro-life Indiana):
“Yet, bringing reforms to such settings had for years been opposed by Eric Miller, an attorney and lobbyist who had positioned his nonprofit group Advance America as a defender of fundamentalist Christian churches and conservative values. Over the years, Miller has characterized such attempts to regulate church day cares — even those using public subsidies to serve the poor — as attempts to exert control over churches, to tax churches and even to put pastors in jail for noncompliance.”
“ Miller convened a group of black pastors in January to confront three black lawmakers on their opposition to the same-sex marriage amendment and their support of the child care reforms. Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, one of the lawmakers confronted, said the pastors reported that Miller had told them their churches could be taxed if the child care bill passes. The measure has no such provision. Taylor said the pastors were soon appeased and he explained that this was Miller’s mode of operation: “I was like, ‘Guys … that’s what he does.”
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/03/08/-state-lawmakers-see-reforms-for-certain-day-cares-as-vital-to-keeping-children-safe/6219007/
Folks like Miller are a good reminder that Jesus, that noted woke individual who hung out with women of ill repute, minorities who were despised, and even government officials, saved most of his wrath for the Pharisees and hypocritical religious leaders who led the flock astray.
Yawn. This again? I wasn’t even talking to you this time.
It’s very easy to complain and you do it quite well, but it’s hard to actually propose concrete alternatives to what those woke losers are doing. I’m still waiting on your proposed alternatives. You remind me of Pat Bauer, who never had solid alternatives to what Mitch Daniels had to offer and just yelled No! a lot in that ridiculous toupee of his. Maybe that’s one reason why the presence of Indiana Democrats isn’t required for the Legislature to do business these days. The lack of alternatives, not the toupee, to be clear.
Back to my point, illustrated with that story that you so loved, which is that in my opinion folks like Eric Miller and Curt Smith and Micah Clark have done more to chase prospective people away from churches than just about anyone else. I don’t think it’s an accident that church attendance and influence has declined at the same time churches decided to get more and more political, but I do think it was a big mistake that will take generations to be overcome, if it is overcome.
PS: the church I go to runs into the thousands each weekend. But thanks for the concern.
Not…a nice man
later
Didn’t even know he was still a thing.
Good