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Regardless of how much disposable income these elderly parishioners had or how much of their disposable income they were willing to donate to the church, it had been seven years since they could rustle up enough to pay even a part-time pastor.
$250K is going to be invested in revitalizing the congregation. Likely a good deal of that will go towards revitalizing the building to make it more attractive to families with young children, etc.
It's one thing to expect taxpayers to subsidize their church. Quite another to expect other church members to do so.
Fine by me. Kick my dry, old, wrinkled a*s out of the pew, and I'll be delighted to take my wallet along with me.
I predict that churches are going the way of the dinosaur. We old boomers will be leaving anyway (as we croak), and the younger set worships their phones and cannot be bothered with church attendance, or attendance at much of anything these days.
Unwillingness to share pew space is a big problem with older folks in churches, though. If they've sat in the same place on the same pew for 30 years and they walk in and a visitor is sitting there on Sunday morning, watch out. Sparks will fly if they don't get their pew back. Anyone who acts like this shouldn't wonder why they're not welcome anymore.
Local news interviewed the pastor. Ran some it tonight. He said it's much ado about nothing - that none of this occurred. .
That's what I suspected, too. It's all a big lie. It's the elderly members playing the victim because something changed in their church, something they choose to label "ageism" when it's really about something else.
My small town has many small Protestant churches. Not interested in stone age Bible-Thumpery, but as a social place to meet people, provide charity and have pot luck dinners, they are good.
It's interesting how the left has taken 5000 years of man-woman marriage into.... now, if you are against changing that 5000 years of man-woman marriage, you are a HATER.
Gotta love the times we now live in. This is all not going to end well...
It's interesting how the left has taken 5000 years of man-woman marriage into.... now, if you are against changing that 5000 years of man-woman marriage, you are a HATER.
Gotta love the times we now live in. This is all not going to end well...
Breaking news: Nobody is proposing to eliminate man-woman marriage.
Breaking news: Nobody is proposing to eliminate man-woman marriage.
Well, that's disappointing.
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