Baptist Pastor In Texas Running As A Democrat?
To me, movement away from the radical religious fringe and towards a humble, moral center is a great thing. And somehow, the fact that it’s happening in Texas makes it even better.
COVINGTON, Texas (ABP) — Pastor and politician Kerry Horn has been called an agent of Satan. He has faced country farmers trembling with rage. And his faith has been questioned by members of his own congregation. And that’s just the reaction of his “Christianâ€? constituents.“People find it interesting,” Horn said. “I just live with it.â€?
Horn’s situation is interesting, to say the least. Horn, 48, is running for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives in the fall 2006 election. The fact he also is pastor of First Baptist Church of Covington, Texas, makes potential voters perk up their ears. The fact he is running as a Democrat in the deeply Republican region leaves some voters confused and others downright distressed.
More on why Kerry shifted towards the middle:
Many of Horn’s advocates — some of whom are Baptist pastors themselves — have supported Republican candidates in the past but have become sour to what they call the latest attitude change in Austin. Others have decided to vote for Horn because they trust him, no matter what political party he represents.Joe Williams, a pipeline inspector, often eats at a diner inside Covington’s busy Shell gas station. Leaning back in his overalls after lunch on a bright spring day, Williams said he’s not too picky when it comes to choosing who gets his vote.
“The number one thing people around here want is honesty,� Williams said. “If we can get a good, honest person in office, we’ll do all right.�
And last, Horn calls out the religious right on their wrongs.
He has little patience for Christians whose political opinions are focused on certain hot-button moral issues. “Here you get enraged about abortion and homosexual action, but you wink and nod at adultery,� Horn said. “Don’t give me this holier-than-thou business when you dismiss other sins.�
Right on.
10 Responses to “Baptist Pastor In Texas Running As A Democrat?”
Yes, and as long as America is oppressing females and gays, we certainly have no right to call attention to conditions suffered by Saudi women.
According to this guy, nobody would be allowed to speak about anything. First stone and all that.
Much has been written about the many “fighting Dems” running in 2006 as a strategy to shore up the security cred of the party. Perhaps this will turn into a new trend: “preaching Dems”.
Matt,
Are you claiming that America’s institutionalized “oppression” with all our fancy anti-discrimination laws is equivalent to Sharia death laws against women and homosexuals? If not, I don’t think that your extrapolation fits the curve.
Republicans don’t focus on what really destroys families: gambling addictions, drug addictions, physical abuse, and adultery.
The GOP sticks with the easy ones: gays and abortion, and single moms.
I guess it’s much easier for straight men to define what’s destroying the country once they take themselves out of consideration.
Another homosexual thinks he is better than anyone else just because he is a sodomite. Well sodomite, see what the Holy Bible has to say about your sex preversion. Whatever you think, you will not be able to change God’s Word regarding homosexuality and will one day have to pay the price for not believing what God has written.
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Romans 1:22-27
V22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, V23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
V24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
V25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, Who is blessed for ever. Amen.
V26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
V27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
1 Timothy 1:8-10
V8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
V9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
V10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind
SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins. I believe you died on the cross to take away my sins and to take me to heaven. Jesus, I ask you now to come into my heart and take away my sins and give me eternal life.
Umm, Citizen, I think you missed the tongue in cheek part of my comment. I just get so very tired of the moral oneupsmanship. I’d kill for a candidate with the occasional idea rather than the usual platitudes.
I was just saying that the uppity tone of the post, assuming that all males on the so-called religious right cheat on their wives, was just a bit ludicrous. Painting with a large brush merely makes the artist look untalented.
Matt, I also was a bit confused by Horn’s explanation for why he’s running as a Democrat. He’s certainly free to do so, but since he felt the need to explain his decision, it would help if the explanation made sense. He’s a Baptist preacher who decided to run as a Democrat in a heavily Republican district for reasons of his own. So what?
As for sin, God doesn’t make distinctions as to degree*. We as humans tend to rank them on a scale, but it’s all the same to God. Cheating on your taxes will condemn you to Hell just as quickly and surely as murdering someone in cold blood. Homosexuality has several scriptures warning against it, but drunkenness has more.
*With one exception.
And what of the non-religious citizens of this country, that don’t partake in adultery, gambling,drugs, or physical abuse? But wonder why religious leaders turn a blind eye to obvious violations of their own relgions, and then want those religions enforced on all regardless of some of those citizens NOT being followers Rev.
I call it selective morality, and hypocracy.
I would hope that the Rev would be more upset about abortion, considering it kills a living human being, than adultery, which can indeed rend families but everyone has a chance to heal. It should have no bearing that he’s a pastor – I’d rather have a Wiccan pro-lifer in office than a dodgy Baptist pro-choicer. (And who is this man to think that he’s going to regulate adultery beyond the usual family stuff in court?)
Single issue voting is exactly how we got the mess we have.
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