Disgusting.

I heard that this morning. Also heard that the younger generation is not following suite with those churches that withdrew.
Is this the hippes of the 50-60's who faught the establishment and now have joined the establishment? The great 180 degree mistake?

Probably not.  I'm of that generation (hippies, protests, and activism) and I recall lots of peers who didn't share our generation's disdain for the Vietnam War, segregation, Nixonian Watergate-style government, etc. 

As to these "Christians", they'll get their due.....

Any sign yet of a movement in Falls Church to rename the city to distance it from the church it was named after?

was a big YES for all 7 of them.  Why?  Tell these radicals to get their own church property, get their own church name and get out of dodge!  They are behind the times and now in order to keep afloat they have to break away. Rearrange the deck chairs on somebody else's dime.

Since there really is no way to tell whether or not these churches (any of them, imho) are politicking (and you know most of them are), we may as well go ahead and strip ALL of them of their tax exempt status.  Level the playing field.  They don't follow the rules anyway, and we DO PAY FOR IT when one needs a federal, state, or county service (ie firetruck).

But we also pay for federal, state, and county services for other nonprofits.

It is a dubious distinction to live in the part of the country which is leading this effort on the East Coast. The views of this Nigerian bishop are more radical than reported. He falls into line of the Christian Reconstructionist views that the old Testa(cle)ment should be taken literally.

I hope their behinds are kicked out of the beautiful buildings and they have to meet in a cinderblock building like so many of those who share their philosophy. They don't deserve to benefit from the tradition of enlightened Christianity which helped them place themselves in these historiic locations.

I believe Teddy had mentioned earlier that there is a nationwide movement to split the churches in the US. Personally, I think this is politically based. -A last ditch effort of the Neo-cons to shore up their political base.

Dubious for sure.  We live in the state where the senate was finally recovered and now where the orginarily liberal church is aligning with the country where a woman is stoned for having sex.  I'd hate to think what other practices this nut believes in to stop women from being wantom.

They will deserve it if they turn into a church of old hateful people.  Let 'em stone each other.  Maybe they will lose a lot more people than they gain.

The Reconstructionists believe entirely in the old testament which is sometimes violent.  Unbelievable that they are this close to nova.  Just great.......

Seems that Vivian Page is talking about this mess.

http://vivianpaige.w...

The E.Church can "cut and run" - churches can do that-its happened through-out history. My question is ; what are they running to ?

I thought this was interesting from March 2006-

http://politicalspag...

An October 6, 2005 Salon.com article (http://dir.salon.com...)states that on a typical Sunday at The Falls Church you can find Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, CIA director Porter Goss, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes, and dozens of other conservatives with legitimate evangelical credentials.  The article also notes that Clarence Thomas and Oliver North attend Truro Church.  This explains much.

There is a secretive group in NoVa with fundamentalist ties and plans to control US defense policy and media (includes authors of "Left Behind" and the Weekly Standard, called the Council for National Policy. Members include churchgoers already named like Clarence Thomas, as well as Alberto Gonzales, Jack Abramoff, and their ilk.

More info when you Google the Council but also check out this cached story on "the Most Powerful Conservative Group You've Never Heard Of."