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Nambe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-21-04 05:12 PM
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NRC hits Eugene churches. So, "Who Would Jusus Bomb?"
I hope he had fun and spent lots of NRC money in 'Little Berkley'. My esteemed colleague told me any tax collecting entity could require an exempt organization to provide written text of speeches made by paid speakers if even a single complaint was received. The Eugene City Council is intelligent and well informed (liberal) so any church that listens to this dope had better hire somebody to do accurate transcriptions of all classes and sermons. At last, the pukes are creating jobs in our community!

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... The protesters included 75-year-old Lois Clinock of Eugene, who helped daughter-in-law Angela Carraway hold up a sign that asked, "Who Would Jesus Bomb?"

"My great-great-grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War, and these activities are not the principles he fought for," Clinock said. "It's not right to go to churches to ask for votes. The Constitution is premised on separation of church and state, and it's not separate when you ask a church for votes."

Other critics of Barton's appearance include America Coming Together, a national voter registration group promoting the election of liberal candidates in 17 "battleground" states, including Oregon.

Scott Ballo, the group's Oregon communications director, said Barton's appearance is part of a national evangelical outreach campaign that already has landed churches in other states in hot water with the Internal Revenue Service over their tax- exempt status. ...

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GregW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-21-04 05:19 PM
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1. Yee-ha! Just saw this in the RG this AM
One of the reasons I love living in Eugene.
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bermudat Donating Member (985 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-21-04 05:23 PM
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2. I graduated from Univ of Oregon in 1974.
Sounds like it has not changed much. Was pretty liberal then. Get outside of Portland or Eugene into the smaller rural communites, and you run into some real unibrow troglydites.
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