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It was going to be a hard day. Keith Mannes prayed he was doing right. He got into his car and drove past harvested cornfields and "Keep America Great!" signs. He parked, walked a few steps and opened the door to his church.
A pastor for decades, he stood before a few dozen congregants. He knew them all, their histories, struggles and joys. That is the way of things here. He told them he loved them and asked for forgiveness. But he couldn't go on as before. Most church members supported President Trump, he said, and Mannes could no longer hide his repulsion for the man he considered incompatible with Christianity.
I am to follow the call of my heart to speak into the world as small as my voice may be, said the 59-year-old lifelong Republican. It was a voice, he said, that was too controversial, too divisive, for this small house of God. He gave his two weeks' notice and quit East Saugatuck Church.
In this conservative region of western Michigan, a GOP stronghold where pastors and party have long united as one, Mannes' decision rippled through this city of 33,000 in a battleground state ahead of a bitter presidential election.
https://news.yahoo.com/pastor-thought-trump-evil-quit-200305517.html
malaise
(269,157 posts)Rec
DFW
(54,436 posts)So rare, they make national headlines when discovered. That says enough about the rest of them.
My Pet Orangutan
(9,302 posts)who had spent nearly 30 years pastoring churches across Michigan and Florida. "Is it worth it?"
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)community and maybe a go-fund me for his retirement. He deserves to have peace for acting with integrity and obeying his conscience. I wouldn't want him to suffer for the brave action he has taken.
judesedit
(4,443 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)patricia92243
(12,601 posts)kidding! Republicans the prefect picture of "social gospel."
That they would vote for a three time married adulterer rather than a Christian man who lives his religion shows them for what they are. Repulsive!
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)That took some guts on his part.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)Bondor
(63 posts)I wish he had spent some time trying to convert the heathens. If they do not like their preacher's brand of morality, let them kick him out. Green stamp for letting people know he thought they were following an evil leader. Brown stamp for his not trying to do anything about it!
Biophilic
(3,691 posts)woodsprite
(11,924 posts)He said he'd figure he'd resign his position before they decided not to get rid of him. He did that early on several months after the 2016 election.