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June 28, 2006
Toronto Conference of
the United Church of Canada to boycott Israel
Our half-witted little
brother to the north,
the Toronto Conference of
the United Church of Canada, is planning a boycott against
Israel.
From the Toronto Star:
This type of boycott is
based on hate and ignorance. If they were really serious about a
boycott "of Israeli products
and companies doing business with its military"
and had really thought
it through, they would be throwing away any Intel-based computer
they had, any system with a Windows operating system and most of
their cell phones - which, of course, they won't do. A boycott of
this nature will do nothing to promote peace and will only serve as
yet another barrier to peace. What ever happened to constructive
engagement?
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June 28, 2006
'New Republic' editor
sounds off against
Divestment
Martin Peretz,
editor-in-chief and chairman of The New Republic, the well-respected
"liberal" journal of politics and the arts, is sounding off against
mainline churches and divestment.
From The New
Republic:
Several churches leapt on to the
"divestment" tactic as a way of
expressing their disapproval of
Israel and their support for the
Palestinians. What they supported in
the Palestinian polity was never
quite clear. The tactic of terror
against Israelis which retains, as
of mid-June, a 56 percent majority
among the Palestinians, up from 52
percent in March, perhaps. The
Presbyterians and Episcopalians
(along with the United Church of
Christ, linear descendants, among
others, of the Congregational Church
composed of American Zion Puritans,
who were Hebraists and in the
nineteenth century supported the
Jewish restoration to Palestine)
were among the first to climb onto
this bandwagon, with much righteous
self-satisfaction.
But the issue festered among many in
the clerisy and, perhaps more
important, in the rank-and-file of
the churches' congregations. Should
Christians really want to put Israel
in peril as Episcopal and
Presbyterian policy would inevitably
do? Suddenly, within days of each
other last week, the Episcopalians
and Presbyterians recanted. (The
move by the Episcopalians did not
get much attention because the press
was focused on the controversial
question of homosexual clergy and
the church's first female presiding
bishop.) Both churches retreated on
their pro-Palestinian rhetoric of
the last years.
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The issue will also be
coming up at the UCC's General Synod in Hartford, CT in July next
year. A number of resolutions are expected to be submitted that will
reflect the positive and pro-active nature of the Presbyterian
resolutions.
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June 26, 2006
UCC Minister in
another Church/State controversy in Connecticut
7/13/2006 UPDATE:
MacLean campaign responds... "This meeting was supposed to be held
last fall but no meeting took place and there have not been any
campaign meetings at the parish hall. However, it is perfectly legal
to do so if I choose to hold them there."
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Another church/state
controversy is about to erupt in Connecticut and this time it
involves an ordained UCC minister running for Congress.
Scott MacLean, an ordained UCC minister and
the early morning Newscast Director at
WFSB-TV, Channel 3 in Hartford,
is running for the Republican nomination as the U.S. Representative
in the Connecticut 1st district. According to an email sent by
MacLean to Republicans in Connecticut, MacLean has been using
First Church in Hartland Congregational, UCC to hold campaign
meetings. From his email:
The
good folks from the First Church in
Hartland-Congregational (my home
church) have graciously let me use
the Parish Hall for campaign
meetings. It is located at the
intersection of Rt. 20 and Rt. 179
in the center of East Hartland,
right across the street from the
church itself. For those of you who
want to print out a map from Map
Quest, the actual address is 5
Hartland Blvd., East Hartland, CT.
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This is the second
church/state issue in Connecticut in the last month involving the
United Church of Christ. On June 8th, UCCtruths.com
was the first to report that Americans United for Separation of Church and State
was investigating a deal between the Governor of Connecticut,
the UCC and the Hartford Civic Center to keep the UCC General Synod
in Connecticut.
According to a report in the Hartford Courant, the state is
"taking care of the $100,000 fee for the Civic Center" for the UCC's
General Synod next July.
The MacLean controversy
also comes on the heels of a
controversy in Ohio where two megachurches are being accused of
illegal political activities for their support of Republican
candidate for Governor, Ken Blackwell. A group of Columbus clergy,
headed by UCC minister Eric Williams, has filed a complaint with
the IRS questioning the tax-exempt status of the churches. The
complaint alleges that the megachurches have used their churches for
partisan politics.
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June 23, 2006
John Thomas: We don't
differ with Presbyterians on Divestment
UCC President John
Thomas and Peter Makari, the UCC's Middle East executive, issued a
statement that, essentially, tried to equate the UCC resolution on
'Economic Leverage' with the Presbyterian USA resolution on
divestment from companies that do business with Israel.
From the press release:
"We
see the action taken by the General
Assembly to modify the 2004
resolution as one that results from
contentious debate among Christians
about the nature of the conflict in
the Middle East, from difficulties
that developed in
Presbyterian-Jewish relations, and
from disagreement about how best to
approach implementation of the
resolution. We do not see this
action in any way challenging the
core commitments of the Presbyterian
Church (USA) to peace in the Middle
East-with which the UCC concurs; nor
the PC(USA)'s commitment to
aggressive corporate engagement as
shareholders; nor as a diminution of
the Presbyterian Church's commitment
to its partnerships with Palestinian
Christians, their churches, and
their agencies and
organizations-with many of which the
UCC also engages in partnership.
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Despite what Thomas
wants to spin, there are glaring differences between the
Presbyterian resolution and the UCC resolution - namely the apology
the Presbyterians offered. From the Presbyterian resolution:
"We
acknowledge that the actions of the
216th General Assembly caused hurt
and misunderstanding among many
members of the Jewish community and
within our Presbyterian communion.
We are grieved by the pain that this
has caused, accept responsibility
for the flaws in our process, and
ask for a new season of mutual
understanding and dialogue."
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Unlike the
Presbyterians, Thomas doesn't have the humility to acknowledge and
apologize for his direct role in getting divestment language
inserted into the UCC resolution and then falsely suggesting that
Jewish groups like the Wiesenthal Center and the Anti-Defamation
League were allies with groups like the IRD to create wedge issues
within the UCC. If you have followed this site at all, you'll
remember that the General Synod committee that studied the
divestment issue crafted a balanced resolution on the Middle-East
which specifically removed any reference to divestment. Thomas and
Makari, with at least two other national leaders of the UCC, helped
craft a substitute resolution that added the divestment language
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into the resolution in
the middle of the night just before the plenary session was to vote
on the resolution. Members of the committee as well as
Mike Downs
of the UCC Pension Board were extremely concerned about Thomas's
role in changing the committee resolution.
Contrary to Thomas's
claim that "the UCC participates with the PC(USA) in national
dialogue with leadership of the American Jewish community", Thomas
repeatedly ignored attempts by the Wiesenthal Center to discuss the
divestment issue before General Synod last year.
It's also worth noting
that Peter Makari's father, Victor, coordinates the Office of the
Middle East and Europe for the Presbyterians, and was one of the
original and most vocal proponents of divestment within the the
PCUSA and has been busily saving face since the new resolution was
passed earlier this week.
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June 22, 2006
Living on the Edge:
"UCC
will await the outcome" of court challenges on Church/State Issue
In an email to the
Conference Ministers today, UCC President John Thomas weakly
defended the State of Connecticut's decision to pay the convention
center fee for the UCC's General Synod next year.
From Thomas's
email:
The UCC honors the principle of the
separation of church and state. The
church also acknowledges that many
UCC entities, especially our health
and human service institutions, have
long been recipients of state and
federal funding to provide services
to those in need, as allowed under
the law.
The church also has expressed its
conviction that faith-based programs
funded by tax dollars not engage in
proselytism, require participation
to engage in religious programs, or
discriminate in employment or client
service based on race, differing
abilities, gender or sexual
orientation. According to Don Clark,
the UCCs special legal counsel,
the use of government incentives
for large-scale religious events
represents a growing legal edge in
constitutional law.
The UCC will await the outcome of
such determinations as they work
their way through the courts.
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Thomas defends the use
of state funds in a number of ways in his email:
1) States regularly
offer incentives for groups to meet in their state
2) Non-profit,
for-profit, secular and religious groups receive these incentives
3) The UCC has received
incentives from governments in the past
4) The UCC is not
receiving the money directly
5) UCC entities like
health and human service institutions get government support
Of course, what Thomas
ignores is that government support of religion is distinctly
different constitutionally than support for other types of groups.
Americans United for Separation
of Church and State, which is investigating the UCC deal,
recently
concluded that a similar deal in Maryland for a Baptist
convention was "inappropriate and clearly unconstitutional" and that
the event should not receive state support because the convention
"is solely a religious event".
Thomas disingenuously
notes that the UCC isn't receiving the money directly since the
$100,000 grant is going to the Civic Center to pay a fee that the
UCC (or any group) would normally be expected to pay. Functionally,
there is no difference whether the funds go directly to the Hartford
Civic Center or to the UCC to defray the cost of the center - there
is a clear financial benefit from the state to the UCC.
While the UCC
historically has been active in church/state issues, it's worth
noting that the UCC's own legal council now isn't clear on the
matter and appears to be resigned to letting the courts decide.
While this is legally prudent, it's ironic that all of a sudden we
have lost our 'prophetic voice' on church/state issues.
Thomas's own definition
of church and state separation, as noted in his email, concedes that
government supported programs should not "require participation to
engage in religious programs". Clearly the UCC's General Synod is a
religious program and our suddenly passive stance on church/state
issues by relying on the courts to sort it out sets a new standard
of hypocrisy by our denomination leaders.
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June 21, 2006
Presbyterians reject divestment language,
issue apology
The 217th General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) has voted
overwhelmingly to repeal divestment language contained in a
resolution from the last General Assembly two years ago. The vote
wasn't even close as 94% of those voting approved of the repeal.
From the resolution:
"We
acknowledge that the actions of the
216th General Assembly caused hurt
and misunderstanding among many
members of the Jewish community and
within our Presbyterian communion.
We are grieved by the pain that this
has caused, accept responsibility
for the flaws in our process, and
ask for a new season of mutual
understanding and dialogue."
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The PCUSA is credited
with starting the divestment movement within mainline churches. The
UCC passed an "Economic Leverage" resolution which also included
divestment language over the objections of the UCC committee charged
with studying the issue. UCC President John Thomas helped draft a
substitute resolution that specifically inserted divestment language
resolution. Building on the momentum of the PCUSA's repeal of
divestment language, similar resolutions are being drafted for
consideration at the UCC's General Synod next year by a number of
groups.
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June 18, 2006
UPDATE: Three more
hours of debate today, resolution proposal intact... Vote scheduled
for 2pm Wednesday...
Presbyterian committee recommends replacing language calling for
divestment
The Committee on
Peacemaking and International Issues at the Presbyterian Church
(USA) General Assembly this weekend voted to replace language
calling for phased, selective divestment from a divestment
resolution that was approved at the 2004 General Assembly.
From
the PCUSA:
"We
acknowledge that the actions of the
216th General Assembly caused hurt
and misunderstanding among many
members of the Jewish community and
within our Presbyterian communion.
We are grieved by the pain that this
has caused, accept responsibility
for the flaws in our process, and
ask for a new season of mutual
understanding and dialogue."
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While this is welcome
news, we'll reserve final thoughts on this until the committee
recommendation is adopted by the General Assembly this week - and
with good reason. The committee assigned to study divestment
proposals at the UCC General Synod last year also stripped out
language calling for divestment. Then, in the late night hours
before the General Synod vote, UCC President John Thomas, with three
other UCC leaders, secretly met and drafted a substitute resolution
which was submitted to General Synod a half hour before the session
was to begin. The move stunned and angered a number of prominent UCC
members including
Mike Downs
of the UCC Pension Board as well as Jewish human rights groups
including the Anti-Defamation League, the Wiesenthal Center and the
American Jewish Congress.
A total of 14 resolutions were
submitted to the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly calling
for a repeal of the 2004 Divestment resolution. Organizing has
already begun within the UCC to present similar resolutions at the
next General Synod that would clearly remove divestment language
from the UCC's "Economic Leverage" resolution.
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June 18, 2006
If the Puerto Rico
Conference can leave, any church can leave
Commentary from
UCCtruths.com on the Puerto Rico Conference leaving the UCC.
The
announcement last week that the
Puerto Rico Conference of the UCC is
leaving the denomination is
significant, not because of the
number of churches leaving but
because of what the conference
represented to the denomination. The
Puerto Rico Conference is a
microcosm of the challenges we face
across the denomination.
Puerto Rico has been a focal point
for the UCC's Justice and Witness
Ministries for some time. Whether
the UCC was opposing the Navy's
use of Vieques as target practice or
the defense of Puerto Rican FALN
terrorists, the UCC was serious in
it's commitment to justice issues
that were significant to Puerto Rico
and to the conference. Even the
boilerplate footnote on UCC press
releases distinguished Puerto Rico
from its mainland brethren. For many
in the UCC, Puerto Rico defined our
social witness of opposing colonial
power and abuse and we dutifully
defended David against Goliath. No
one can question the UCC's
commitment to Puerto Rico. But, in
the end, it wasn't enough. At the
end of the day, theological division
about "Marriage Equality" trumped
the commitment of our denomination
to Puerto Rico. With this history of
commitment, if the entire Puerto
Rico Conference can leave the UCC,
any church can leave the UCC.
The dirty little secret is that it
didn't have to be this way.
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Read
the whole commentary here (Adobe Acrobat - 18kb).
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June 13, 2006
Adiós!
Puerto Rico Conference Votes to Leave UCC
We have heard the rumor
for a couple of days now and finally the UCC national office
confirmed today that the Puerto Rico Conference has voted to leave
the UCC.
From UC News:
Iglesia
Evangelica Unida de Puerto Rico (United
Evangelical Church of Puerto Rico), whose
partnership with the United Church of Christ
goes back more than 40 years, voted Saturday,
June 10, 2006, during its annual Assembly to
disaffiliate with the UCC. The final vote was 75
percent in favor of the resolution to
disaffiliate.
The Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC general minister
and president, called the action “deeply painful
and profoundly disappointing,” but said that the
denomination “respectfully, though regretfully,
honors the decision of the Assembly.”
“The action will draw to a close the formal
partnership between the United Church of Christ
and the IEUPR, a partnership with roots in the
work of the American Missionary Association
beginning late in the 19th century,” said
Thomas.
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This one is going to
sting for awhile.
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June 8, 2006
Americans United:
"We are investigating"
Americans United for Separation of
Church and State confirmed this evening by phone that they are
looking into an apparent deal between the Governor of Connecticut,
the UCC and the Hartford Civic Center to keep the UCC General Synod
in Connecticut.
According to a report in the Hartford Courant, the state is
"taking care of the $100,000 fee for the Civic Center" for the UCC's
General Synod next July. Americans United noted the irony in timing
since
they are currently looking into a grant the State of Maryland
offered a Baptist convention which is being held later this month.
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UC News is reporting that "on June 2, the Connecticut Economic
Development Authority (CEDA) announced the awarding of a grant to
the Greater Hartford Convention and Visitors Bureau to provide
incentives for groups to hold conventions in the city." The UC News
article is vague on the amount of the grant and if the grant was
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"Luckily, thanks to the intervention of Gov. M.
Jodi Rell, the United Church of Christ's annual
convention in 2007 will still be held in
Hartford - but at the Civic Center, not the
convention center. And the state will have to
pay the $100,000 Civic Center fee. That's not a
sustainable practice."
Hartford Courant
Editorial 6/8/2006
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Barry Lynn, an ordained
minister in the United Church of Christ, is the Executive Director
of Americans United.
Often accused of being
partisan against conservative churches, this isn't the first time
that Americans United has looked into a UCC-related event.
In September,
2004, Americans United criticized former President Bill
Clinton's speech for Presidential candidate John Kerry at the UCC-affiliated
Riverside Church in New York.
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June 6, 2006
Americans United: No
State funding for Baptist Convention
Doubts about CT funding for UCC
General Synod persist
Just last month,
Americans United for Separation of Church and State "urged the
Maryland attorney general’s office to deny state funding for a
religious convention scheduled for this summer in Baltimore". The
precedent will, no doubt, have an impact on the UCC's General Synod
which, according to the Hartford Courant, is being relocated to the
Hartford Civic Center after the Governor of Connecticut committed to
"taking care of the $100,000 fee for the Civic Center".
From Americans United:
The Maryland General
Assembly, at the behest of Gov.
Robert Ehrlich, recently budgeted a
$150,000 grant for the June 19-23
annual conference of the National
Baptist Congress of Christian
Education (NBCCE). The appropriation
is on hold pending a review by the
attorney general, which was
requested by the state’s budget
department.
Said the Rev. Barry
W. Lynn, Americans United executive
director, “This grant is totally
inappropriate and clearly
unconstitutional. Religious groups
should pass the collection plate to
their own members, not the
taxpayers.”
In a May 22 letter to
Attorney General J. Joseph Curran
Jr., Americans United Assistant
Legal Director Richard B. Katskee
noted that the Baptist convention is
solely a religious event and should
not be subsidized by the state
government.
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Barry Lynn, an ordained
minister in the United Church of Christ, is the Executive Director
of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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June 5, 2006
SPECIAL COMMENTARY
General
Synod moving to Civic Center?
Don't hold your breath...
Even though
Edith Guffey is gushing over the State of Connecticut's decision to
take care of the $100,000 fee for the Hartford Civic Center, a
number of questions remain which could kill the deal.
For starters, the Governor of Connecticut, M. Jodi Rell, will have
to sell the idea
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and there's no doubt that questions will be raised about a
$100,000 contribution to attract 5,000 to 10,000 people for
a convention. Rell, a Republican, has also bumped
heads with the Connecticut Conference of the UCC in the past year on
issues such as gay marriage and the death penalty. She has a great
deal more to lose than to gain politically in financially supporting
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"Is the
state going to step in to bail out every
upcoming event that's scheduled at the
convention center?"
-Letter to the Editor
Hartford Courant, 6/6/2006 |
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There is also a significant Church and State issue here as well. If
the state pays $100,000 for the UCC's General Synod, how will it
react when other religious groups ask for the same benefit? The
concern isn't hypothetical.
The Muslim American Association, which signed the letter to the
Hartford Courant with UCC President John Thomas over the labor
concerns at the Connecticut Convention Center, stated that "more
than 10,000 Muslims are planning to convene in these facilities for
the next few summers". Will the state shell out money for every
religious group that wants to come to Connecticut?
Then there's Americans United for
Separation of Church and State. The group has been accused of
partisanship in their campaigns against conservative Christian
groups that receive public subsidies and benefits -
most recently over prison fellowship programs. This won't be an
easy matter for them as Barry Lynn, the Executive Director of
Americans United, is also an ordained minister in the UCC. The
credibility of Americans United will be tested on this issue.
Finally, there is
the UCC's own
record of opposing 'faith-based' initiatives. Many of the points
the UCC used in opposing President Bush's plans clearly contradict
our plans now of receiving aid from the government.
At this point, UCC leaders have to be in an awkward position.
Leaving Hartford for a different venue now would be extremely
difficult. So would accepting a $100,000 subsidy from the state.
Don't hold your breath... many more things need to be worked out for
this deal to happen.
-James Hutchins (james.hutchins@gmail.com)
Moderator,
UCCtruths.com
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June 3, 2006
General
Synod moved to Hartford Civic Center
Not all are happy
with State kicking in $100,000 - Source: "Americans United for
Separation of Church and State will probably investigate. I don't
know how they can pull this off."
According to the
Hartford Courant, the UCC's 50th General Synod will be relocated to
the Hartford Civic Center with the state picking up $100,000 of the
cost.
From the Hartford Courant:
The
United Church of Christ will keep its 2007
national convention in Hartford, but it won't be
held at the year-old Connecticut Convention
Center as all had hoped.
Instead, following a last-minute intervention by
Gov. M. Jodi Rell, the church will hold its
event at the decades-old Civic Center, keeping
its people, and their money, in Hartford.
"They told me that the governor wants very much
to make this work, and that they will be taking
care of the $100,000 fee for the Civic Center,"
said Edith A. Guffey, associate general minister
of the United Church of Christ. "It's a very
generous assistance, and we're very appreciative
of it."
The governor's office declined to comment
Friday, as did other parties to the talks.
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Questions, however,
remain. One source with knowledge about the deal, but declined to be
identified, doesn't believe there will be support within the state
government for the move. "There are going to be too many challenges
to this. Americans United for
Separation of Church and State will probably investigate. I
don't know how they can pull this off".
Barry Lynn, an ordained
minister in the United Church of Christ, is the Executive Director
of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Calls and
email to Americans United were not
returned this Saturday evening.
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June 2, 2006
John
Thomas and Mahdi Bray
When UCC President John
Thomas's letter to the Hartford Courant appeared last week, I barely
noticed that Imam Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Society had
co-signed the letter. I had never heard of the guy until a post on
Solomonia appeared later in the day. A quick search on the
internet turned up this
Chicago Tribune article about the Muslim American Society (MAS)
and their link to the Muslim Brotherhood (a
claim MAS denies). My curiosity turned into concern: What are we
doing with this group?
The question has also
popped up on Robert Spencer's widely read
Dhimmi Watch:
Thomas deserves the
benefit of the doubt that he doesn't really know who Bray is anymore
than I know who Bray is... which makes
this post on John Thomas at Occidentality completely unacceptable:
Dhimmi Watch blogger
Robert Spencer suggests that if Thomas knew more
about Bray he would be more reticent about
working with him on
projects such as this letter.
I suggest the opposite: it is their mutual
contempt for freedom that unites them, and that
as always that correlates
to a contempt for Jews.
Thomas does not work with Bray because he is
ignorant of Bray's sentiments, but because he
shares them. The title of the post at Dhimmi
Watch is "Does John Thomas really want to stand
with Mahdi Bray?" I think the answer is "yes."
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I'm in an unusual
position defending Thomas on this... but it's not like Mahdi Bray is
a household name for UCC'ers. There is no reason to believe that
Thomas knows who Bray is and this type of criticism crosses a line.
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June 1, 2006
The
Great Conspiracy Unmasked
UC News article identifies
IRD as "well-funded" conspirators
While the national
office of the United Church of Christ sorts out it's own financial
problems, a new UC News article titled "Amplifying the mainline"
bemoans the growing conspiratorial divisions within mainline
churches and "how the mainline church is finding its voice despite
some well-funded attempts to silence it". According to the article,
the culprit is The Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD).
From UC News:
"But then it was
torpedoed by this offensive [from the IRD] that
it didn't see coming," [Rev. Peter] Laarman
says. "Unbeknownst to most people, there was a
huge counter thrust that was well-funded and
well-organized. Of all the vehicles of the Right
in the last 40 years, its success at dividing
the mainlines is its best and least known
success. These [divisions] are not indigenous
reactions within these communions. These are
being orchestrated by the IRD."
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According to
GuideStar.org, which
provides financial information on 1.5 million non-profit
organizations, the "well funded" Institute on Religion & Democracy
generated $1.1 million in contributions in 2004 (the most recent IRS
990 form available online). Contributions to the "well funded" IRD
equate to less than 10% of the UCC's OCWM basic support for the same
year and less than 1% of all mainline churches combined.
But the article's
dramatic claims don't stop there. More from UC News:
About nine months
ago, when clergy and lay leaders from the UCC's
Missouri/Mid- South Conference met in a St.
Louis church basement to discuss how IRD might
be intentionally working with so-called "renewal
groups" to sow discord and ultimately take
churches out of the denomination, an IRD staffer
flew from Washington, D.C., to listen in on the
conversation. In March, when Thomas gave a
lecture at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania,
his alma mater, that included comments about
IRD's attacks on mainline churches, an IRD
representative again traveled from Washington,
D.C., to attend, tape and transcribe the speech,
unbeknownst to Thomas (even though he had
provided a copy to United Church News for
posting on its website.)
"IRD is using church members, and even outside
groups, to disrupt and ultimately control the
mainline to promote its own political agenda,"
Thomas said at Gettysburg.
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Big on rhetoric but
short on facts, the article doesn't mention a single church that the
IRD has taken out of the denomination. In addition, Thomas's speech
at Gettysburg College was promoted and titled as "The IRS, the IRD,
and the Red State/Blue State Religion". Is it any wonder that the
IRD might be curious as to what Thomas might have to say about them?
Like UC News, UCCtruths.com also received an unsolicited copy of the
transcript of Thomas's speech from the IRD... and it's no surprise
why Thomas was a little miffed about the transcript being released.
In his speech,
Thomas falsely accused the Wiesenthal Center, the David Project
and the Anti-Defamation League as being allies of the IRD "in an
ongoing strategy of disinformation and disruption".
(NOTE: We also know a
few things about conspiracy theories. UCCtruths.com has been
falsely accused of being connected to the IRD and we have received
dozens of inquiries about the financing of this $10/month web site.)
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