When the United Church of Christ ran television commercials depicting fictional bouncers in front of a church turning people away from Sunday services the Religious Right howled with protest.
“We believe this ad is dishonest and insulting to other Christian churches," said the president of the Republican Party aligned Institute on Religion and Democracy.
"It is a piece of masterful propaganda, but it is a diabolical misrepresentation of Christianity," said Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Mohler ought to pay more attention to his own denomination. One of their churches actually kicked out John Kerry voters in 2004, a Michigan church was kicked out of the denomination this summer for accepting gay and lesbian members, and this month a church in Alabama was kicked out of the denomination’s Mobile Baptist Association for calling a woman pastor.
A real misrepresentation of the Christian faith is one that tries to deny people a place in the church based on their gender, their politics or their orientation.
