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August 1, 2003.
Greetings in Jesus’ name, friends.

How about this, from Reuters News Agency (Zelie Pollon, July 17, 2003)?

A New Mexico family is suing their local Catholic church over a funeral Mass in which they claim a priest said their relative was only a middling Catholic and going straight to hell.
Court papers filed last month say that Rev. Scott Mansfield said at Martinez's funeral last year that the deceased was "living in sin," "lukewarm in his faith" and that "the Lord vomited people like Ben out of his mouth to hell."

Wow. What do you do about that? I’m pleasantly surprised that someone had the guts to speak the truth instead of this devilish nonsense about a ‘better place’. I’m not advocating the tone, of course (vomiting him out of His mouth).

All of you who are preachers had better be careful about what you say this Sunday. The lawyers are loose. And this goes for Canada, especially, where it might be construed to be a hate crime to note that liars and practicing homosexuals are going to hell.
posted by Stephen Court, August 1, 2003

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