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Inflammatory message

Published: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 10:37 AM CST

While driving up Maley Street this Saturday afternoon, my nine-year-old daughter noticed and read the marquee outside the 1st Baptist Church. The message on the marquee was an inflammatory pejorative statement directed at another church and its membership located in our community.

She was incredulous after my explanation of the message's content.

She could not understand how a church could make such a statement. Her comment to me was, "I have friends that go to that church. That is mean."

As a lifelong educator and long time resident of this community I am disheartened, to say the least, by the intolerance exhibited in such a prejudicial statement made publicly by a church congregation in Willcox.

Ed Houser

Willcox


Not community oriented		Who are Christians?

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Jody Pagliocco wrote on Jan 14, 2008 1:39 AM:

" This unfortunately is a example of a church that obviously have issues with themselves. If they weren't why would they put such a statement on their boards? If they are so completely involved and proud of their faith, why put a statement like this for all to read? All it shows is complete closed-mindedness and the church SHOULD feel ashamed. I am a convert to the mormon church and churches like this are exactly why I went searching for a church that has true meaning, embrace others and teach to love everyone. I am truely sad to read such a thing and makes my decision to never live in willcox again stand even stronger. "

What wrote on Jan 16, 2008 8:19 PM:

" What did it say? "

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