Church severs tie with branch over pagans
I find this oddly interesting because of two related issues happening right now. The first was the rev. who resigned as head of the evangelicals due to an alleged 3 year gay sex scandal with a male prostitute. The second is a continuing battle against me by an evangelical whose only beef with me is my religious choice. It's amazing how bigoted some can be, in direct conflict with the teachings they claim to follow.
Church severs tie with branch over pagans:
By Tom Dalton
SALEM, Mass. — A small evangelical Christian church that has tried to reach out to the witch community says it was dropped by its national organization for getting too close to local pagans.
The Gathering at Salem, which was scheduled to give free “psalm readings” at a Halloween celebration, has been relegated to the status of independent Christian church after being removed last March from membership in the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, a worldwide evangelical movement based in Los Angeles, according to Phil Wyman, pastor of The Gathering.
The trouble began two years ago, Wyman said, when he inadvertently posed for a photo on the Essex Street pedestrian mall with a woman calling herself the “Countess Bathoria,” who had stirred up controversy by appearing in a promotional poster for a vampire ball wearing a bikini and covered in blood. She was being paraded around by two local witches that day when Wyman said he went over to greet them and was photographed as he bent down to kiss the woman’s ring.