You probably heard about this – it was in all the papers; it was in radio and television news reports; it was a “hot topic” on the call-in-talk shows.

A minister in North Carolina had members of his church voted out of the church because they had voted for a Presidential Candidate different from the one he voted for and supported.

In October last year (2004) he preached a sermon in which he told the congregation who he was supporting for President of the United States… and he said that if any of them were planning to vote for the other major candidate, they should come to the altar and repent and then vote for his candidate… or they should resign from any leadership position and get out of the church right away.

After the election, the pastor called for the church to “vote out” of the m…