Pastor Says He Follows Another Law

[The Straight Story]

Pastor Says He Follows Another Law

LAS VEGAS (CN) - A Christian church pastor says Clark County officials trampled his flock's religious freedoms by demanding that they remove a metal sign that shows the Ten Commandments to passersby. The pastor claims that submitting to virtually any county, state or federal authority "would operate as a recognition of and submission to another sovereign greater than Jesus Christ."

The Rev. Wallace E. Smith, of House of Israel Fellowship, claims that a Clark County code enforcement officer inspected the church in September 2009 and ordered two signs removed. One is a vinyl banner hanging from the building with the church's name. The other is a sign in a metal frame that presents the Ten Commandments.

The church appealed, but a hearing officer ordered the signs be "dismantled and removed, impounded and destroyed" if the church doesn't take action by Jan. 5, according to the complaint in Clark County Court.

Smith claims that removing the signs "would violate plaintiff/church's instructions to keep Jesus as Lord and to publish and propagate His message to the general public."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/02/09/24538.htm

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1. I'm so tired of self-righteous cretin scofflaws

like this joker. :puke:

I've never been particularly religious, but now I've developed an allergy to organized religion. I've lost all patience for it, and for gasbags like this guy.

Ugh.

Diane

Anishnabe in MI

[Initech]

4. Agreed.

I tried Christianity but when I realized it was full of people like this (and I'm taking my own personal experiences into account here), I just flat-out quit and haven't looked back. Between shit like this and Sunday's uber-creepy Tebow ad, I really have to wonder if Jesus is questioning his sanity right now.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Idiots...

But this case looks like it could be bound for the SCOTUS.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Note, Americans: They think their laws are above ours!

If you're not afraid of these people, you should be.

[gratuitous]

5. Good for you, Pastor Smith

But, as always, be prepared to pay the price when the temporal laws conflict with your eternal opinions.

[JuniperLea]

6. Jesus said to render under Caesar what belongs to Caesar...

And unto God what belongs to God.

Even he saw a clear separation... and I see this as him charging his boneheaded followers to follow the rules under which they find themselves governed.

But they can't even follow the "Big Ten" let alone some nuance like calling the local powers-that-be "Caesar." So they will just continue to bear false witness, etc.

[Toasterlad]

7. Fine. Then He Can Worship In Another Church - Prison.

[spanone]

8. fuck him and send him a tax bill