Not long ago, they arranged for some pastors from a local evangelist church to pray over Patrick Okello.
It's been three days, now, since the pastors came.
Thus do American megachurch pastors become vocally homophobic, because they can't deal with the fact that they're gay.
In Cardiff city centre, a chapel has been given over to a team of nurses and street pastors on Friday and Saturday nights over the past year to care for those found drunk on the streets.
In an effort called Pulpit Freedom Sunday, sponsored by the Alliance Defending Freedom (who can argue with a name like that?), pastors were urged to preach the "biblical Truth about candidates and elections".
In some cases, they did so at the public behest of their pastors.
As the San Francisco Chronicle notes, "Pastors across the country have posted videos on the Internet of their direct or thinly veiled political endorsements and sent letters to the Internal Revenue Service, daring the agency to revoke their tax-exempt status for political speech .The IRS, for its part, doesn't seem to care.
Since then, pastors have been left to preach politics as they please.Ironically, there are pastors who would like to see the issue go before the courts, but they can't force the matter due to the IRS's inaction.
Southern Baptists have long since updated their views on race, as the many black Southern Baptist pastors attest, but the movement's social conservatism endures.
RESTRICTIONS on religious freedom do not necessarily involve draconian actions like imprisoning pastors, flogging alleged "blasphemers" or bulldozing places of worship.
Though most priestly politicians belong to the PT or other left-wing groups, some are conservatives.Conversely, while many evangelicals are politically conservative, some pastors have joined left-wing parties.
