We are voting on a new mayor in April for our small town. One of the candidates in particular I am not very found of. He just released his candidate profile and included the below paragraph:

"Another important goal I have concerns our Christian beliefs. I want all the Christian organizations in (city name) to declare and baptize the city of (city name) as a Christian community. Then I want to encourage the same distinction in neighboring towns. I am a strong believer in God, and it is thanks to Him, that I have been successful in business, community, and family life."

Is it legal for him to mix religion with politics? He can't really symbolically "baptize" our town as a Christian community, right? He has a lot of pull in this town to get elected next month so I am a little nervous about it.

Dark_crow

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margarita_momma

Thought you guys might want an update:

The guy running for Mayor who I described won the election.

It was a sad, sad day for our town.

RickJ

I am a "rabid" conservative Christian...but even so think that yes, it is a sad day for your town. We can only hope that those surrounding him help him "see the light".

DaBaAd

It is pure religious propaganda that is accepted more within the Bible belt of the country. This advertisement is an attempt to convince the religious to vote for him instead of making a valid political move. Unfortunately, if you live in a conservative religious community, they will buy into his agenda.

margarita_momma

Most people in this town think of him as some kind of Saint. He has hung pictures of Jesus on the Cross and other various religious pictures all over city hall which I find very disturbing. That is a public office and it is just wrong to do such a thing in my opinion.

purplewings

Usually this kind of move wouldn't be attempted until after the election. Lucky for you and many others, you can NOT vote for him.

To state it's a Christian community is an affront to all Jews, Hindus, Buddhist, Muslims, and other religions. We don't usually - or decently do that to an entire town, although all religious groups can certainly have their own community areas.

In response to excon's reply......it is certainly separatist. Another example of this below:

I worked in a church office for over 8 years and one day received an urgent call from a parishioner who planned to attend a prayer service at another orthodox church. She needed to speak to our priest to determine what to do about prayers since there would be non-orthodox persons praying at this service and the holy writings say an orthodox should never pray with a non-orthodox.

Amazing!