Joe Solmonese Interview: Why Gays Should Trust Obama

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If church leaders focused more on teaching and less on worldly politics, tithes would flow naturally. People tithe when they are spiritually fed. When millions of dollars go to futile politics or to law suits over child molestation (child rape), then tithes decrease. When the congregation is "fed", tithes reflect this.

1equalityUSA of CA 7:45AM August 22, 2009

It's probably about as likely as Joe Solmonese running an gay outfit that hires really nasty telemarketters for fundraising. Talk about yer bad names... I'd rather give money to Fred Phelps than Solmonese - HRC is that bad.

Charles of DC 12:29PM August 15, 2009

aura, can you provide reasonable evidence that pastors and churches are all about money and nothing else? Not just a few or a couple of bad eggs, but that the majority of pastors actually have steaks, lobsters, cheeses, fine wines and houses because of their tithing congregations?

Dr. Shade of NC 1:57PM August 11, 2009

When marriage ends in divorce, couples discover it is a civil court that divides assets. Because of the ten per cent tithe scam, preachers claimed they alone have control of matrimony. Why? They insist the sole purpose of marriage is parenthood--to produce ongoing generations of tithes-payers. Notice the huge dollar value of one tither: If a person pays 10 per cent for 40 years on a steady annual income of $40,000, the church gets the enormous sum of $160,000. That's more than enough to buy countless meals for preachers of steaks, roasts, wine, foie gras and caviar. The Defense of Marriage Act should be called the Defense of Ten Per Cent Tithe Act. I ask gays and Lesbians, especially if they're religious, to recognize that churches do not expect homosexuals to produce big families of tithers. I think churches would lay off homosexuals if they promis to pay a double tithe for not having offspring. That's a nice plot for a video for a float at the next big Gay Parade.

auradawnveirs of CA 5:12PM August 10, 2009