Texas tea party leader says not to vote for Methodist candidate because church welcomes gays

[TexasTowelie]

NE Tarrant Tea Party President Julie McCarty appeared on Fox News last year.

The president of the NE Tarrant Tea Party says people should support a Baptist judicial candidate over a Methodist because “anything goes” in the Methodist church.

“Methodists are not as conservative as straight-laced Baptists,” Julie McCarty wrote on Facebook (right). “They have female pastors and openly welcome gays with no church discipline — stuff like that that is a personal conviction of mine.”

McCarty, of Grapevine, is president and co-founder of the NE Tarrant Tea Party. She was explaining her decision to support David E. Cook, a Baptist who is running for the County Criminal Court No. 1 seat. Cook is running against Don Hase, a Methodist, and Everett Young, a Lutheran.

Earlier this month, McCarty wrote that “my con with Hase was that he is a Methodist. … Methodists tend not to take a stand on issues — anything goes,” according to Bud Kennedy at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

More at http://www.lonestarq.com/tx-tea-party-leader-says-vote-methodist-candidate-church-welcomes-gays/ .

[wandy]

1. Said it before and took a whooping for it. But I say it again...........

It's going to be a real mess if these people ever come to power.
When the cults fight it out as to just what is our national religion is to be.

My gods better than you're god..
My gods better than yours..
My gods better because......................
Well, because, because, I gots dis here AR-15 and a big pick-em-um truck than can run you over and the lord protects me.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Another Conceiling Veil Torn Off Tea-Christer Bigotry

Julie McCarty's comments revealed the underlying religious bigotry that underlies So much of the Tea Party base. For years, church-going Presbyterians, Methodists, and others had assumed that their Tea-publican pals' hostility was directed at secularists, New Agers, and those who weren't members of the body of Christ.

McCarty's comments should be a wake-up call for all those R's who assumed that their lower-key or liturgical Christianity was still considered respectable within the infrastructure of the Texas Republican Party. (Of course many of us Texas Democrats figured that one out decades ago).

McCarty's comments show that the Tea-publicans are every bit as bigoted in their way as Salafists and Wahabbis are in theirs.

[DhhD]

3. According to this Wrong Thinking, NE Tarrant Baptists do not let person's with disabilities, those

benefiting from Social Security/Veterans-elderly-disabled, SNAP/the hungry, those unable to tithe -unemployed working people-those living pay check to paycheck, and the ill due to no health care, those "out of the Closet to use an old term", associate with or be inside the Baptist Church. Jesus left his job as a carpenter. Jesus said something like, if you do it for the poor and down hearted, you do it for me. The 5% have taken up all the Trickle down money that FDR provided to the 99%. Now the Baptist church seems to be looking out for the 5%. They build churches. Things have changed over the past decades; Jesus has stopped adding to church.

While driving by a NE Church during the early Fall of 2008, hundreds of political signs saying McCain/Palin were stuck in the ground surrounding the campus. As I drove by each time, I recalled the TEA-Republican Platform, which is somewhat the same thing I wrote in the paragraph above.

Have you seen advertisements for a very big and new church in Dallas advertising for new 5%ers? Others are studying the Bible at home.

[DhhD]

4. Wealth Distribution in the United States. Let us look at the Percentages.