Thank you, Chan Chandler. I needed that.

Well. For days now, I’ve been angry because I haven’t been able to make my essay on the UU’s First Principle suitable for posting, and because I still have no job, and because the law firms that interview me keep telling me that I have a bright future, just not with them.

And then along comes that two-bit Baptist dictator, Chan Chandler.

And then along comes a gutless state chairman of the Democratic Party.

Come on, Jerry Meek. Threatening the church’s non-profit status? That’s the best you can do? Allow me to usurp your office for a moment.

First, note that Pastor Chandler says that the ouster of the nine members was not politically motivated. Well then, in all likelihood, he must believe he had a legitimate spiritual motivation. Challenge the man to give a scriptural justification for his actions. Ask for the chapter and verse that says God is a Republican.

Second, the nine ousted people and the forty who left in disgust need a place to go on Sunday. The appropriate place for them to go is the place where they would ordinarily go, if not for Pastor Chandler: the East Waynesville Baptist Church. And that’s exactly where they should go – along with a large crowd of righteously indignant Democrats, ready to worship God according to their inclinations and their consciences. Oh yeah, and a TV news crew.

Any jackass can issue a press release. Do something substantive.